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