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The television series Seinfeld featured real-life locations which you can explore on a trip to New York City. Like Cosmo Kramer in "The Muffin Tops", you, too, can see the locations from the small screen with your own eyes.

Filming locations and places featured on the show

New York City

Manhattan

  • 1 101 Park Avenue, Murray Hill, +1 212 808-7000. Kruger Industrial Smoothing — George's incompetent employer for most of the final season, who "botched the Statue of Liberty job" ("they couldn't get the green stuff off") — was headquartered here.
  • 2 211 W. 106th St., Manhattan Valley. Home of the eccentric J. Peterman, retail magnate and world traveller who was Elaine's boss in the last three seasons of the show. In the Season 8 episode "The Van Buren Boys", Elaine, tasked with ghostwriting Peterman's autobiography, interviews him here only to be frustrated by his boring stories ("We've covered all of [the intrigue and exotic romances] in the catalogue ad nauseam. No, I would like this book to be about my day-to-day life").
  • 3 321 W. 90th St., Upper West Side. The building where George lived from the beginning of the series through Season 5, when he moved in with his parents. (After being hired by the Yankees and moving out, the picture becomes muddied: according to the show, his new place was on 86th Street, but the exterior shots used in filming switched inconsistently between the original 90th St. location and another building on 16th St. in Chelsea, a full 70 blocks south of its supposed location!)
  • 4 600 Madison Avenue, Midtown East. Home of the fictional Pendant Publishing, where Elaine worked as a copy editor from the second through the fifth season (and George too, for one disastrous third-season episode).
  • 5 640 West End Avenue, Upper West Side. Home of Mr. Pitt, the eccentric, persnickety multimillionaire for whom Elaine works as a personal assistant for most of Season 6.
  • 6 1325 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown, +1 212 237-3156. Fictional headquarters of the J. Peterman Catalog, where Elaine worked for the three final seasons of the show.
  • 7 Beau Brummel Sport, 287 Columbus Ave., Upper West Side. Where Jerry spends over $1,000 on a snazzy suede jacket to impress Elaine's intimidating father, Alton Benes, only to be humiliated when it starts raining, forcing him to wear it inside-out with the pink candy-stripe lining showing. Now closed and home to a Super P supermarket.
  • 8 Beckett Theatre, 410 W. 42nd St., Hell's Kitchen, +1 212 714-2442. The tiny Off-Broadway playhouse that ran Jerry Seinfeld Is the Devil, a one-woman show written and performed by Susan's old roommate Sally Weaver, who claims Jerry has ruined her life. Theatre Row Building on Wikipedia
  • 9 Brentano's, 597 Fifth Ave., Midtown East. "The Bookstore" where Uncle Leo is caught shoplifting, and where George is forced to buy a book he doesn't want (and can't get rid of, as it's been "flagged") after taking it to read in the men's room. (This was actually a continuity error on the writers' part: this location of Brentano's had already been closed for two years by the time the episode aired in 1998. The space is now a Lululemon clothing store.) Charles Scribner's Sons Building (Q3897252) on Wikidata Charles Scribner's Sons Building on Wikipedia
  • 10 Bruno, 240 E. 58th St., Midtown East, +1 212 688-4190. Su-Tu 5PM-10PM, W-Sa 5PM-11PM. Site of Kramer and Mickey's double date in "The Yada Yada", where they couldn't decide which girl was right for which guy. Still in business, but under a new name: Club A Steakhouse.
  • 11 Central Park. The setting of many different happenings in the Seinfeld universe: Central Park is where Mr. and Mrs. Ross were taken by Kramer on a disastrous hansom cab ride with a flatulent horse, where George uses a line about manure to awkwardly flirt with a waitress from Monk's Cafe (and later with actress Marisa Tomei much more successfully, at least until she learns he has a fiancée), where George injures Bette Midler during a charity softball game, and where Elaine's Trinidadian houseguest Jean-Paul Jean-Paul loses the New York City Marathon after burning himself on a cup of Kramer's hot tea. Central Park (Q160409) on Wikidata Central Park on Wikipedia
    • 12 Central Park Zoo, +1 212 439-6500. Daily 10AM-4:30PM. Where Kramer gets revenge on a mischievous chimp during a behind-the-scenes tour by throwing the banana peel back at him, only to be forced to apologize to the animal later. $9.95, children 3-12 $6.95, seniors 65 and over $7.95, children 2 and under free. Central Park Zoo (Q954207) on Wikidata Central Park Zoo on Wikipedia
    • 13 Tavern on the Green, +1 212 877-8684. M-Th 11AM-9PM, F 11AM-11PM, Sa 9AM-11PM, Su 9AM-9PM. George learns his girlfriend Allison is planning to break up with him, so he dodges her calls in order to force her to be his date to the party George Steinbrenner is throwing here for New York Yankees staff ("If she can't find me, she can't break up with me!") Foiled eventually, he takes Kramer as his "date", who is thrown into the dining room after a scuffle in the lobby with the back torn out of his tuxedo, spoiling the "grand entrance" George had hoped to make with Allison. Tavern on the Green (Q4022491) on Wikidata Tavern on the Green on Wikipedia
  • 14 Champagne Video, 2183 Broadway, Upper West Side. The video store where George bumps into Susan only to discover he's driven her to lesbianism, and where he later tries to rent Breakfast at Tiffany's in lieu of reading the novel for his book club. Also the workplace of the mysterious Vincent, whose taste in recommended videos makes Elaine fall in love sight unseen. Part of a now-defunct local chain, as of December 2018 this location is a vacant storefront for lease.
  • 15 Cineplex Odeon Regency, 1987 Broadway, Upper West Side. A favorite movie theater of the gang. This is where Newman catches Jerry making out with his girlfriend during a showing of Schindler's List, where Elaine stops for Jujyfruits on her way to the hospital to visit her injured boyfriend Jake Jarmel, where Jerry and Kramer get together to catch Plan 9 from Outer Space, and where George, to appease Susan, passes up the chance to see Firestorm in favor of The Muted Heart. Closed and demolished; now the site of an Apple Store.
  • 16 Columbus Deli, 476 Columbus Ave., Upper West Side. Bodega with an illegal cockfighting ring in the back room, where "Little Jerry Seinfeld", owned by Kramer and named in Jerry's honor, notched win after win against his hapless opponents. Still open as of December 2018 — stop in and see for yourself if Marcellino has taken Jerry's bounced check down from the wall!
  • 17 Guild 50th Street Theatre, 33 W. 50th St., Theater District. Movie theater where Jerry was forced at gunpoint by a friend of Kramer's to film an illegal bootleg of Death Blow with a concealed camcorder, where Elaine loudly declared her hatred for The English Patient in front of Mr. Peterman, and where Kramer unsuccessfully tried to go to the bathroom during a bout of constipation. Now home to an Anthropologie clothing store (but the old marquee is still in front of the entrance!)
  • 18 H&H Bagels, 2239 Broadway, Upper West Side. The store where Kramer worked until 1985, and briefly again in 1997 after calling off his twelve-year strike (a raise in the minimum wage had made his salary demands moot), was right on the southwest corner of 80th St. and Broadway. Though that location closed in 2012, H&H Midtown Bagels East continues to do business under different ownership at 1551 Second Ave. between 80th and 81st Sts. H&H Bagels on Wikipedia
  • 19 The Hippodrome, 1120 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown East, +1 212 626-6996. Where Jackie Chiles, superlawyer extraordinaire who bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain member of O.J. Simpson's "Dream Team", kept his office.
  • 20 Hotel Edison, 228 W. 47th St., Theater District, +1 212 840-5000. Where George is stripped, handcuffed to the bed, and robbed blind by a beautiful woman who seduced him on the subway — and he misses his job interview, too!
  • 21 La Boite en Bois, 75 W. 68th St., Upper West Side, +1 212 874-2705. Su-Th 11:30AM-10:30PM, F-Sa 11:30M-11PM. Fancy French restaurant that appears frequently in the show: it's where Jerry strains to avoid letting his parents find out he threw away the watch they gifted him (the same one Uncle Leo picked out of the garbage), where George strains to find out if his girlfriend "feel[ing] full after the risotto" is a metaphor for their sex life, where George's Latvian Orthodox girlfriend breaks up with him, and where Jerry discovers his girlfriend Gwen is a "two-face".
  • 22 The Larchmont, 448 Central Park West, Manhattan Valley. Elaine lived here? Get out!
  • 23 Loews Paragon Theater (now AMC 84th Street 6), 2310 Broadway, Upper West Side, +1 212 721-6023. Another of the gang's movie-house haunts, Loews is where Jerry catches his dry cleaner wearing his coat, where Kramer meets Uma Thurman, where Jerry and Kramer leave George behind to see the aforementioned Firestorm together, and where Elaine and her boyfriend see The English Patient, leading to the demise of their relationship.
  • 24 The Magic Pan, 432 Columbus Ave., Upper West Side. Izzy Mandelbaum, a neighbor of Jerry's parents at the Del Boca Vista retirement community, was the franchisee of this location of the once-popular chain of creperies, where Kramer put to work the "Cuban" cigar rollers (actually Dominicans) he'd hired for one of his get-rich-quick schemes. The chain folded shortly after the airing of that Season 8 episode, and the location is now an UNO Chicago Grill.
  • 25 Majestic Theatre, 245 W. 44th St., Theater District, +1 212 239-6200. In Season 7, Kramer got a personal behind-the-scenes tour of the Majestic's production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat courtesy of Ethan, a friend of Susan's who was "The Wig Master" for the troupe. Majestic Theatre (Q1393081) on Wikidata Majestic Theatre (Broadway) on Wikipedia
  • 26 Manhattan Mini Storage, 543 W. 43rd St., Hell's Kitchen, +1 646 786-7210. Daily 7AM-10PM. Where, much to his chagrin, Jerry discovers that Kramer is letting Newman illegally store undelivered mail in Jerry's storage unit.
  • 27 Manhattan Plaza Racquet Club, 450 W. 43rd St., Hell's Kitchen, +1 212 594-0554. M-Sa 6AM-midnight, Su 7AM-midnight. The setting of a pair of mishaps involving Elaine: in Season 3, she eliminates herself from "The Contest" after John F. Kennedy Jr. joins her aerobics class; in Season 6, she loans Mr. Pitt's tennis racket to a representative of Doubleday Publishing in hopes of landing a new job.
  • 28 McBurney School, 15 W. 63rd St., Upper West Side. Where Jerry's tomfoolery with a Pez dispenser causes Elaine to laugh all the way through George's girlfriend's piano recital. (Another continuity error: the school closed down in 1988, four years before the episode aired.) McBurney School (Q6800060) on Wikidata McBurney School on Wikipedia
  • 29 Mendy's, 208 W. 70th St., Upper West Side. Remember Kenny Bania's favorite restaurant, where Jerry was tricked into buying him dinner repeatedly? Mendy's really exists, but it's not the upscale steak-and-seafood place it was portrayed as on the show: it's actually a chain of kosher delis. The one on W. 70th St. where Jerry and Kenny went is now closed, but if you want a meal like they had, head there anyway; it's now the renowned Lincoln Square Steak. Otherwise, head to one of five Mendy's locations throughout the city — the matzo ball soup is phenomenal, whether you consider it a full meal or not.
  • 30 Metropolitan Opera House, 30 Lincoln Center Plaza, Upper West Side, +1 212 362-6000. Where Elaine attends a performance of Swan Lake with Robert, a gay man for whom she agrees to pose as a girlfriend to appease his homophobic boss, only to fall in love with him and try to get him to "switch teams". Metropolitan Opera House (Q188031) on Wikidata Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center) on Wikipedia
  • 31 Metro Twin Cinema, 2626 Broadway, Manhattan Valley. Site of the double-date in Season 5 where Elaine and Jerry take their beaux to see The Age of Innocence, and Jerry's girlfriend "can't spare a square" of toilet paper for Elaine in the bathroom stall. Also where George impresses his new girlfriend in "The Opposite" by angrily shushing the loud movie-goers seated behind them, going so far as to threaten: "...we're gonna take it outside and I'm gonna show you what it's like!" Closed in 2002 and now vacant.
  • 32 Mickey Mantle's, 42 Central Park South, Garment District. Kramer pays the former New York Yankee himself a visit here in Season 4 to apologize for punching him in the mouth during a brawl at baseball fantasy camp, only to get literally thrown out of the restaurant by security. Mickey Mantle's closed in 2012, 17 years after the death of its namesake, and is now the site of a spray tanning salon.
  • 33 New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway, Theater District, +1 212 398-1900. The venue for the Able Mentally Challenged Adults benefit — where Kramer, whose slurred speech due to a novocaine injection led him to be mistaken for developmentally disabled, was the guest of honor — is also the place where Jerry's attempts to woo Miss Rhode Island (who was staying in Room 417) were constantly frustrated by her chaperone, Kramer, and where Mr. Lippman's press conference for Jake Jarmel's new book went awry. New York Marriott Marquis on Wikipedia
  • 34 New York Public Library Main Branch, 476 Fifth Ave., Midtown South, +1 917 275-6975. M & Th-Sa 10AM-6PM, Tu-W 10AM-8PM. Where Jerry meets Lieutenant Joe Bookman, an ironically named "library cop" who dresses him down for checking out Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer in 1971 and never returning it — and where Kramer meets Marion, a librarian with whom he kindles a forbidden love affair. New York Public Library Main Branch (Q7013887) on Wikidata New York Public Library Main Branch on Wikipedia
  • 35 Off-Track Betting, 714 Third Ave., Turtle Bay. After overhearing a horse racing tip on the subway, Kramer hurries into this place and wins $18,000 on a long-shot bet. The location is now a Wendy's.
  • 36 O'Neal's, 49 W. 64th St., Upper West Side. Where, during dinner with Elaine, Kramer, and Kramer's "low talking" fashion designer girlfriend Leslie, Jerry inadvertently agrees to wear a "puffy shirt" designed by the latter to an appearance on the Today show. O'Neal's closed in 2010, but you can still get a good meal here: it's now the site of the Atlantic Grill, serving some of Manhattan's best seafood.
  • 37 The Original Soupman, 259A W. 55th St., Hell's Kitchen, +1 212 956-0900. M-Sa 11AM-8PM, Su 11AM-7PM. The "Soup Nazi" was a real-life person, Ali Yeganeh — and by all accounts, the experience at his restaurant was more or less exactly how it was depicted in the seventh-season episode of the same name. Yeganeh has always resented the fame (or notoriety) that his portrayal on Seinfeld brought him, but after the original restaurant closed in 2004, he somewhat reluctantly parlayed it to relaunch his business as a chain that now counts four locations across the Northeast (including the original). The Original Soupman on Wikipedia
  • 38 Peter's, 182 Columbus Ave., Upper West Side. A fateful place in the life of George Costanza: it's here where his brief but illustrious hand modeling career began, where he lost out on a job opportunity due to "swishy" pants, and where Susan broke the news to him that her cousin had stolen his idea for an unusual baby name, "Seven". Closed in 2010, now home to a location of Rag & Bone clothing boutique.
  • 39 Plaza Hotel, 768 Fifth Ave., Garment District, +1 212 759-3000. Elaine reluctantly gives up her free suite here (given to her after lying that she was in from out of town on a job interview) to Jerry's parents, who really are in from out of town — and after they trash the room and ring up hundreds of dollars worth of extra charges, she's stuck with the bill! Plaza Hotel (Q1066676) on Wikidata Plaza Hotel on Wikipedia
  • 40 Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, Theater District, +1 212 465-6741. Site of the 1997 Tony Awards, where Jerry takes his girlfriend Lanette on a date, and Kramer works as a seat filler (and somehow manages to win an award for his "performance" in the fictional musical Scarsdale Surprise). Radio City Music Hall on Wikipedia
  • 41 Royale Pastry, 237 W. 72nd St., Upper West Side. Stood in for two different businesses during Seinfeld's run: Royal Bakery, which ran out of chocolate babkas at the worst possible time for Jerry and Elaine, and Schnitzer's, where Jerry physically fought an old woman for the last marble rye. Now closed and home to a Jenny Craig weight-loss center.
  • 42 St. Luke's Lutheran Church, 308 W. 46th St., Hell's Kitchen, +1 212 246-3540. It's a Protestant church in real life, but it was portrayed as a Catholic parish on the show: St. Luke's is where Jerry, frustrated with the Jewish jokes told by recent convert Tim Whatley, sidles into a confessional to tattle on him to a priest for also telling a joke about the Pope and Raquel Welch. St. Luke's Lutheran Church (Q2918119) on Wikidata St. Luke's Lutheran Church on Wikipedia
  • 43 St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (now Mount Sinai West), 1000 Tenth Ave., +1 212 523-4000. Where George's mother recuperates after falling down in shock upon hearing that her son is gay (...not that there's anything wrong with that); where Kramer runs scared from the "pig-man" in room 1937 to the detriment of George's car; where Elaine's ex-boyfriend's touch-and-go surgery is a smashing success thanks to an errant Junior Mint; where Kramer bargains with a sick kid to get the Yankees birthday card back for George by promising him Paul O'Neill will hit two home runs and catch a fly ball with his hat. St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center on Wikipedia
  • 44 Symphony Café, 238 W. 56th St., Midtown. Over dinner here, Elaine consoles her her friend Cynthia over her inability to find the right man — later hitting on the idea of hooking her up with George. Closed; now the home of Fuji Sushi.
  • 45 Tom's Restaurant, 2880 Broadway, Morningside Heights, +1 212 864-6137. Tu-Th 7AM-1PM, F-M 24 hours. Repurposed by the show as Monk's Cafe, the gang's favorite hangout. Outside the Seinfeld universe, it's best known as the setting for Suzanne Vega's 1987 hit song, "Tom's Diner". Tom's Restaurant (Q2441394) on Wikidata Tom's Restaurant on Wikipedia
  • 46 The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., Theater District, +1 212 997-6661. Site of the titular performance of Pagliacci in "The Opera", to which all four have tickets for opening night. Jerry helps Elaine dodge her boyfriend/stalker, "Crazy" Joe Davola, while George and Kramer try to scalp their tickets. The Town Hall (Q1634948) on Wikidata The Town Hall (New York City) on Wikipedia
  • 47 Trattoria dell'Arte, 900 Seventh Ave., Midtown, +1 212 245-9800. M-Sa 11:45AM-midnight, Su 11AM-10:30PM. Over dinner here, Jerry sympathizes with George over his inability to find the right woman — later hitting on the idea of hooking her up with Cynthia, a friend of Elaine's.
  • 48 Virginia Theatre (now the August Wilson Theatre), 245 W. 52nd St., Theater District, +1 212 239-6200. Shortly after a whirlwind visit to the Met, Elaine's "close talker" boyfriend takes her and Jerry's parents here to see a production of My Fair Lady — much to Elaine's annoyance. August Wilson Theatre (Q12053066) on Wikidata August Wilson Theatre on Wikipedia
  • 49 West Side YMCA, 5 W. 63rd St., Upper West Side, +1 212 912-2600. M-F 5AM-11PM, Sa 7AM-8PM, Su 8AM-8PM. In the men's locker room, Jerry meets his idol, former New York Mets player Keith Hernandez — who goes on to woo Elaine and get confronted by Kramer and Newman, who accuse him of spitting on them after a crucial game in the 1987 World Series.

Outer boroughs

  • 50 22-37 37th St., Astoria, Queens. Home of the neurotic, bickering Frank and Estelle Costanza — and their son George too, for most of Season 5.
  • 51 Arthur Ashe Stadium, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, +1 718 760-6200. Site of the US Open tennis tournament, where Jerry becomes infatuated with a deaf lineswoman, George is shown on TV at the concession stand with ice cream all over his face, and Kramer injures Monica Seles in her big comeback match while working as a "ball boy". Arthur Ashe Stadium (Q609551) on Wikidata Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wikipedia
  • 52 John F. Kennedy International Airport, +1 718 244-4444. Where, while waiting to pick up Jerry from a flight coming in from St. Louis, George taunts a convict under police escort and Kramer confronts an old acquaintance who borrowed money from him 20 years ago and never repaid it — both with disastrous results. John F. Kennedy International Airport (Q8685) on Wikidata John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wikipedia
  • 53 LaGuardia Airport, LaGuardia Rd. and 94th St., East Elmhurst, Queens, +1 718 533-3400. Site of the Diplomat's Club, where Kramer won and then lost thousands of dollars betting on the arrival times of incoming flights (at one point putting up David Berkowitz's mail bag, a keepsake of Newman's, as collateral). LaGuardia Airport (Q319654) on Wikidata LaGuardia Airport on Wikipedia
  • 54 Queensboro Plaza Station, 27th St. and Queens Plaza, Long Island City, Queens. Supposedly the home of the best gyros in the New York City subway system — the tzatziki sauce from which stained one of the issues of Frank Costanza's beloved TV Guide magazine collection. Queensboro Plaza (Q2177925) on Wikidata Queensboro Plaza (New York City Subway) on Wikipedia
  • 55 Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, 228 N. 12th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Stand-in for the Latvian Orthodox church where George attempts to convert to win back a woman who left him, and Kramer discovers his kavorka, almost tempting a clergywoman into giving up her faith. Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord (Q2109124) on Wikidata Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord on Wikipedia
  • 56 Yankee Stadium, 161st St. and River Ave., The Bronx. Home of the New York Yankees, George's employer during the sixth, seventh, and most of the eighth season. The Yankee Stadium where George worked was torn down in 2009-10 and is now a park; the baseball team now plays in a new building on the other side of 161st St., also called Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium (Q675214) on Wikidata Yankee Stadium (1923) on Wikipedia

California

  • 57 CBS Studio Center, 4024 Radford Ave., Studio City, +1 818 655-5000. This is where the majority of the show was filmed, including interior scenes in Jerry's apartment, Monk's Cafe, workplaces, shops, etc. Filming was on Stage 19 for the first three seasons, and on the much larger Stage 9 thereafter, as the number of different sets (and the popularity of the show) had grown substantially. In addition, many exterior scenes were filmed on the "New York Street" set between Stages 14 and 15. CBS Studio Center (Q5009278) on Wikidata CBS Studio Center on Wikipedia
  • 58 Paramount Studios, 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, +1 323 956-5000. Another studio with a "New York Street" set that was used occasionally for Seinfeld. Unlike CBS Studios, they offer a two-hour tour where you can see the sets for yourself. Paramount Pictures on Wikipedia
  • 59 The Shelley, 757 S. New Hampshire Ave., Los Angeles. This old brownstone apartment building in L.A.'s Koreatown wouldn't look out of place on the other coast — and indeed, it was the stand-in for exterior shots of Jerry's Upper West Side apartment.

Other places related to Seinfeld

New York City

  • 60 129 W. 81st St., Upper West Side. The exterior shots were filmed in Los Angeles (see above), but this is the address used in the show for Jerry and Kramer's building — and it's the actual address of the apartment where Jerry and Larry David lived as young stand-up comedians working the New York club circuit in the 1980s.
  • 61 609 W. 43rd St., Hell's Kitchen. Long-ago site of Bak's Market, a produce stand where Larry David was once banned for squeezing the fruit too hard. This was the inspiration for the fictional Joe's Fruit Shop, whose owner banned Kramer for trying to return a rotten peach — and later Jerry too, after catching him trying to buy fruit for Kramer. Now a parking ramp. (The "Joe's Fruit Shop" scenes that actually appeared on the show were filmed at CBS Studios in California.)
  • The Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., Theater District, +1 212 997-6661. In addition to its importance within Seinfeld's fictional universe, the real-life Jerry did a stand-up performance here on September 10, 1988. Unbeknownst to him, in the audience were several executives from NBC invited by Seinfeld's manager, George Shapiro, who'd written them a letter several weeks earlier: "Call me a crazy guy, but I feel that Jerry Seinfeld will soon be doing a series on NBC". (This was later reflected in the Season 3 episode "The Pitch", where Jerry's TV alter ego was approached by an NBC talent scout after a comedy set.) The Town Hall (Q1634948) on Wikidata The Town Hall (New York City) on Wikipedia
  • 62 Westway Diner, 614 Ninth Ave., Hell's Kitchen, +1 212 582-7661. Daily 6AM-1AM. The place where, in late 1988, Jerry and Larry David met over lunch to sketch out the premise for the TV sitcom that NBC executives had just offered him: not a "show about nothing", as others would soon dub it, but a show about how minuscule events in the everyday life of a stand-up comedian inspire the material in his act. (This was the inspiration for the scene in Monk's Cafe in the third-season episode "The Pitch", where a conversation between Jerry and George about salsa led to the idea. In fact, it's often thought that the Westway, more than Tom's, was the true inspiration for Monk's.)

California

  • 63 Jerry's Famous Deli, 12655 Ventura Blvd., Studio City, +1 818 980-4245. Su-Th 8AM-1AM, F-Sa 8AM-3AM. After a full week of writing, rehearsing and filming, the cast of Seinfeld were famous for unwinding on Friday evenings at the Studio City location of this famous chain of New York-style Jewish delis, eating, talking, and joking together late into the night. Ask the staff and (if it's not too busy) you can see their favorite booth, now marked with a plaque. Jerry's Famous Deli on Wikipedia

Elsewhere

  • 64 National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. A museum with displays of American cultural history, among them the original puffy shirt which character-Jerry wore on The Today Show, designed by Kramer's low-talking fashion designer girlfriend. National Museum of American History (Q148584) on Wikidata National Museum of American History on Wikipedia

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