Comedy Central · 2014 to 2019 · five seasons, 50 episodes
Abbi lives in Astoria, Ilana in Gowanus, and most days in the show are spent getting to each other and then getting lost somewhere in between. Walk them towards each other below: wherever they meet is a real place the show filmed.
How they met
Abbi Jacobson
In real life they met in 2006 through the Upright Citizens Brigade, the New York improv group, made 18 web episodes in 2010 with their own money, and brought in Amy Poehler as executive producer. Comedy Central premiered the show on 22 January 2014. Television Academy oral history
The show gives them a second start: in “Sliding Doors” (season 4, 2017) they meet on a subway platform in 2011, and the episode also follows the night they don’t. Episode list
11 places
They meet. Five seasons, 50 episodes, 11 places.
Ilana Glazer
Season 2, episode 1, 2015
East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, Kips Bay
In the first episode of season 2 the pair try to return an air conditioner to Ilana’s old college dorm, “Shamden Hall”: the outside is Baruch College on East 25th Street.
The same episode moves on to the Bed Bath & Beyond in the old Siegel-Cooper store on Sixth Avenue and a rest on a bench in Union Square.
Rivington Street, Lower East Side
A glass tower at 107 Rivington Street, a short walk from the Back Room and Eldridge Street. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls; some rooms have balconies and soaking tubs.
Check roomsThe Bowery, East Village
A brick hotel on the Bowery, near KGB Bar and St. Marks Place, with Gemma, an Italian trattoria, on the ground floor and a bar in the lobby. Rooms run from about 275 square feet to penthouse suites.
Check roomsAstoria to Gowanus
Move each of them. The ticks are the show’s real places, lined up in the order you would pass them on a straight line from Queens to Brooklyn; it is not a map, and nobody would walk it.
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Abbi is in Astoria and Ilana is in Gowanus, 11.8 km apart. Walk them towards each other.
Get them to the same tick and the place opens here.
102 Norfolk Street · From 6pm nightly · 21+ Sun–Thu, 25+ Fri–Sat
The Lower East Side speakeasy where Abbi became a 1920s singer for a night. Walk-ins and bookings; no cover and no food.
See the barLower East Side
Live marketplace results for walking tours of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, past Doyers and Eldridge Streets. Check the routes.
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Compare toursMember card · Williamsburg
Soulstice, the upscale gym where Abbi works, was filmed at Chalk Gyms at 193 North 9th Street in Williamsburg.
In season 1 Abbi is on the gym’s cleaning staff, not a trainer. Paul W. Downs plays Trey, Abbi’s boss at the gym. He and his co-writer Lucia Aniello were friends of the pair from UCB.
A private gym building on a Williamsburg side street. Look from the pavement; the inside is for members.
West side, 66th to 69th Streets · Free · daily from 11am in season · closed in winter
The 15-acre lawn where Ilana danced to bait the phone thief. A Quiet Zone with no toilets on the lawn.
Plan a visitAs themselves, during the run
Abbi Jacobson
plays Abbi Abrams
Ilana Glazer
plays Ilana Wexler
Hannibal Buress
plays Lincoln Rice
The last day of filming
The last day of filming was an all-night shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge. Amy Poehler remembers the cast writing “Broad City Forever” on the bridge.
In the final episode, the 50th, Abbi and Ilana stop to talk about their friendship on the bridge. It aired on 28 March 2019. In that episode Abbi is about to move to Colorado for an artist’s fellowship, and the two wander the city before she goes.
The bridge was finished in 1883 to John A. Roebling’s design. With its approaches it is 6,016 feet long.
Manhattan and Brooklyn
Live marketplace results for guided walks over the Brooklyn Bridge. None is about the show; check the routes.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare tours102 Norfolk Street · Mondays 9pm–12.30am · doors 6pm · free
Free live jazz every Monday at the speakeasy from the show; tip the band.
See the bar11 places you can visit. The gym and the animal hospital are working businesses: look from the street. The bars are over 21s only.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk it from City Hall Park in Manhattan or Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn. Keep to the walkway: bikes have had their own lane since 2021.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park at the foot of Fifth Avenue; the arch stands on the north side.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open daily from 11am, weather permitting; it closes in winter so the grass can recover. It is a Quiet Zone, and there are no toilets on the lawn.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A bar on East 4th Street, over 21s only. Check its own listings before you go.
Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working veterinary practice. Look from Eldridge Street; inside is for patients and their owners.
Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Open from 6pm every night, until 1am on Sundays and Mondays, 2am Tuesday to Thursday and 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. Walk-ins and bookings; no cover, no food.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A short, bent street in Chinatown, open to walk at any time.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A busy East Village street of shops and restaurants, at its liveliest at night.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The block is a pedestrian plaza between college buildings, open to walk through.
Manhattan · From Park Row by City Hall to Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
The last day of filming was an all-night shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge. Amy Poehler remembers the cast writing “Broad City Forever” on the bridge.
Walk it from City Hall Park in Manhattan or Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn. Keep to the walkway: bikes have had their own lane since 2021.
Manhattan · Fifth Avenue at Washington Square North, Greenwich Village
In season 1 Abbi comes to the park looking for drugs and ends up in an awkward conversation instead.
A public park at the foot of Fifth Avenue; the arch stands on the north side.
Manhattan · West side of Central Park, between 66th and 69th Streets
When a thief takes Abbi’s phone in season 1, Ilana dances on the meadow to get him to take her picture.
Open daily from 11am, weather permitting; it closes in winter so the grass can recover. It is a Quiet Zone, and there are no toilets on the lawn.
Manhattan · 85 East 4th Street, East Village
On the night of the lost phone in season 1, the group goes to KGB Bar to watch a friend of Ilana’s do an improv show.
A bar on East 4th Street, over 21s only. Check its own listings before you go.
Manhattan · 241 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side
In season 1 Ilana is walking dogs, one of them falls ill, and it is treated here.
A working veterinary practice. Look from Eldridge Street; inside is for patients and their owners.
Manhattan · 102 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side
The speakeasy night in season 2 was filmed in the real bar, where Abbi turns into a 1920s singer.
Open from 6pm every night, until 1am on Sundays and Mondays, 2am Tuesday to Thursday and 3am on Fridays and Saturdays. Walk-ins and bookings; no cover, no food.
Manhattan · Between the Bowery and Pell Street, Chinatown
In season 2 Ilana and her mother are driven blindfold to a hideout of knock-off handbags, reached through a manhole on Doyers Street.
A short, bent street in Chinatown, open to walk at any time.
Manhattan · East 8th Street between Third Avenue and Avenue A, East Village
Abbi’s birthday in season 2 starts at Kenka on St. Marks Place, goes wrong when the gift bag is stolen, and ends with pizza on the pavement.
A busy East Village street of shops and restaurants, at its liveliest at night.
Manhattan · East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, Kips Bay
In the first episode of season 2 the pair try to return an air conditioner to Ilana’s old college dorm, “Shamden Hall”: the outside is Baruch College on East 25th Street.
The block is a pedestrian plaza between college buildings, open to walk through.
Stay
Two hotels within walking distance of the Lower East Side and East Village places.
Rivington Street, Lower East Side
A glass tower at 107 Rivington Street, a short walk from the Back Room and Eldridge Street. Floor-to-ceiling glass walls; some rooms have balconies and soaking tubs.
Check roomsThe Bowery, East Village
A brick hotel on the Bowery, near KGB Bar and St. Marks Place, with Gemma, an Italian trattoria, on the ground floor and a bar in the lobby. Rooms run from about 275 square feet to penthouse suites.
Check roomsGo there
The speakeasy, the meadow and marketplace walks over the bridge and through the Lower East Side.
102 Norfolk Street · From 6pm nightly · 21+ Sun–Thu, 25+ Fri–Sat
The Lower East Side speakeasy where Abbi became a 1920s singer for a night. Walk-ins and bookings; no cover and no food.
See the barWest side, 66th to 69th Streets · Free · daily from 11am in season · closed in winter
The 15-acre lawn where Ilana danced to bait the phone thief. A Quiet Zone with no toilets on the lawn.
Plan a visitManhattan and Brooklyn
Live marketplace results for guided walks over the Brooklyn Bridge. None is about the show; check the routes.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare toursLower East Side
Live marketplace results for walking tours of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, past Doyers and Eldridge Streets. Check the routes.
Live marketplace results · itineraries change
Compare toursWhat’s on
Free jazz at the bar where Abbi sang.
102 Norfolk Street · Mondays 9pm–12.30am · doors 6pm · free
Free live jazz every Monday at the speakeasy from the show; tip the band.
See the barTake it home
Abbi Jacobson’s essays.
Abbi Jacobson
Abbi Jacobson’s 2018 book of essays.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
11 of 11 places · 14 of 14 stories
193 North 9th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Abbi works at Soulstice, an upscale gym; the gym is Chalk Gyms in Williamsburg.
Abbi teaches a class in the Soulstice pool and trains for the Soulstice Games.
Abbi and Trey train Shania Twain at Soulstice.
From Park Row by City Hall to Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn
The last day of filming is an all-night shoot on the Brooklyn Bridge; the cast write “Broad City Forever” on it.
In the 50th and last episode, Abbi and Ilana stop to talk on the bridge before Abbi leaves for Colorado.
Fifth Avenue at Washington Square North, Greenwich Village
Abbi goes looking for drugs in the park and finds only an awkward conversation.
West side of Central Park, between 66th and 69th Streets
Ilana dances on the meadow to bait the man who has Abbi’s phone.
85 East 4th Street, East Village
The group watches a friend of Ilana’s do improv.
241 Eldridge Street, Lower East Side
A dog Ilana is walking falls ill and is treated here.
102 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side
Abbi becomes a 1920s singer for the night, filmed in the real bar.
West of the Nethermead, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
The pair skate in from Grand Army Plaza to a dog wedding at the Music Pagoda.
Between the Bowery and Pell Street, Chinatown
Ilana and her mother are driven blindfold to a knock-off handbag hideout under a manhole.
East 8th Street between Third Avenue and Avenue A, East Village
Dinner at Kenka, a stolen gift bag, a chase and pizza on the pavement.
East 25th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, Kips Bay
The pair try to return an air conditioner to Ilana’s old dorm, played by Baruch College.
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