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What is the best sitcom set in New York City?

by YPB Team

Manhattan apartments nobody could afford, Queens houses everybody recognised, and seventy years of the city playing itself.

  1. Seinfeld — ranked #11
    Seinfeld
    Four Manhattanites and the city's small indignities — queues, parking, soup.
  2. Friends — ranked #22
    Friends
    A West Village apartment nobody on those salaries could afford, and everyone wanted anyway.
  3. How I Met Your Mother — ranked #33
    How I Met Your Mother
    A group of friends orbiting a Manhattan bar across nine seasons of flashback.
  4. 30 Rock — ranked #44
    30 Rock
    Set inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, about the people making television there.
  5. Will & Grace — ranked #55
    Will & Grace
    Two best friends and their orbit in an Upper West Side apartment.
  6. Taxi — ranked #66
    Taxi
    The Sunshine Cab Company garage on the Lower West Side, 1978 to 1983.
  7. The Odd Couple — ranked #77
    The Odd Couple
    A neat freak and a slob share a Manhattan apartment after both marriages collapse.
  8. The Jeffersons — ranked #88
    The Jeffersons
    A dry-cleaning magnate and his wife move on up to the East Side.
  9. All in the Family — ranked #99
    All in the Family
    Archie Bunker's house in Astoria, Queens, and the arguments inside it.
  10. The Nanny — ranked #1010
    The Nanny
    A Queens cosmetics saleswoman becomes nanny to a Broadway producer's children.
  11. Living Single — ranked #1111
    Living Single
    Four Black women sharing a Brooklyn brownstone, a year before Friends premiered.
  12. The King of Queens — ranked #1212
    The King of Queens
    A parcel deliveryman, his wife and her father in a Rego Park house.
  13. Broad City — ranked #1313
    Broad City
    Two twentysomethings improvising their way across a much grubbier New York.
  14. Mad About You — ranked #1414
    Mad About You
    A newly married couple negotiating Manhattan life in the 1990s.
  15. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — ranked #1515
    Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
    A cult survivor starts over in a Manhattan basement apartment.
  16. Brooklyn Nine-Nine — ranked #1616
    Brooklyn Nine-Nine
    The NYPD's fictional 99th precinct and its unusually functional squad.
  17. Sex and the City — ranked #1717
    Sex and the City
    A columnist and her three friends treat Manhattan as a fifth character.
  18. I Love Lucy — ranked #1818
    I Love Lucy
    A Manhattan apartment on East 68th Street and the sitcom template that came from it.
  19. Master of None — ranked #1919
    Master of None
    An actor's New York, shot like a film and structured like short stories.
  20. Only Murders in the Building — ranked #2020
    Only Murders in the Building
    Three neighbours in an Upper West Side co-op make a true-crime podcast about it.

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Comments

Tom's Restaurant on Broadway at 112th stood in for Monk's, the Bedford and Grove building did the titles, and seventy years of city sitcoms surround both: https://youpick.best/articles/friends-vs-seinfeld-ranked

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