TV shows that get New York right

Marcus Feld

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Look, half the shows set in this city were shot on a soundstage in Burbank with a green screen doing its best Chrysler Building impression, and I can tell, and so can you, and we all just agree not to talk about it. This is a list of the ones that didn't insult my intelligence — the ones where the sidewalk grime looks like my sidewalk, where the apartments are appropriately too small for what the characters claim to earn, and where somebody, at some point, correctly treats the L train as a hostile environment. No Friends apartment nonsense, I've walked past that corner in Greenwich Village a hundred times and every time a tour bus is blocking my view of a wine shop I actually need to get into.

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TV shows that get New York right — 9 items
Name	Why I rate it	Address	City
1Succession (30 Rock scenes)	Rich people being miserable in beautifully appraised real estate is basically my job, so naturally I respect the research.	30 Rockefeller Plaza	New York
230 Rock	—	—	—
3Law & Order	Dun dun. Three decades of the same courthouse steps and somehow it never gets old, unlike most things that have run that long.	60 Centre Street	New York
4Sex and the City (Carrie's stoop)	I have opinions about the shoe budget relative to the apartment's square footage, and those opinions are not kind, but here's the thing, the West Village itself never lied.	64 Perry Street	New York
5White Collar	—	—	—
6The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	The coats alone justify the Emmy count, and somebody on that production clearly understands what a real Upper West Side lobby smells like.	2109 Broadway	New York
7Gossip Girl (The Met steps)	Nobody actually sits on the Met steps drinking champagne out of a thermos, but I appreciate the aspirational lie.	1000 Fifth Avenue	New York
8Girls	Finally, a show willing to admit that Brooklyn apartments this nice require a trust fund nobody mentions out loud.	Franklin Street, Greenpoint	New York
9Only Murders in the Building	A show that understands co-op board politics are the true New York horror genre, and I say that as a man who reads bylaws for fun.	55 Central Park West	New York