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A pale stone and brick police station house on a Brooklyn corner, with arched ground-floor windows and bare winter trees
The 78th Precinct station house on Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, February 2014: the front of the show’s 99th. Autopilot · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • A smiling dark-haired man in a dark jacket, mid-interview
    Andy Samberg in an interview, June 2016, during the show’s third season. Uproxx · CC BY 3.0

    Andy Samberg2016

  • Two women talking to an interviewer in front of a pale branded backdrop, one laughing mid-sentence
    Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz at NBC’s upfront in New York, May 2018, days after the show was saved. Frame from Adweek’s interview. ADWEEK · CC BY 3.0

    Melissa Fumero2018

  • Two men in suits laughing in front of a pale branded backdrop
    Joe Lo Truglio and Terry Crews at NBC’s upfront in New York, May 2018. Frame from Adweek’s interview. ADWEEK · CC BY 3.0

    Terry Crews2018

Fox 2013–18 · NBC 2019–21 · set in Brooklyn, built in Studio City

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

There is no 99th Precinct. Its front door is the 78th, on Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn, and the 78th’s patch takes in Prospect Park, where dogs run free before nine in the morning. Cheddar is waiting on the Long Meadow.

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Roll call

There is
no 99th.

New York numbers its precincts in blocks by borough. Brooklyn’s block runs from 60 to 99, but its precincts stop at 94, so there is no real 99th.

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Brooklyn’s block, 60 to 99. The real precincts stop at 94; the 74th was folded into the 78th.

Outside · Brooklyn

78th Precinct station house

65 Sixth Avenue at Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

The 78th Precinct’s station house is the exterior of the show’s fictional 99th Precinct.

It stands at 65 Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, near the Barclays Center and Atlantic Terminal: a Renaissance Revival building of 1925.

The real precinct covers Park Slope, Prospect Park and parts of Gowanus and Prospect Heights, which is the 99th’s patch too; a precinct map in the background of one scene matches the 78th’s. The 74th Precinct was merged into the 78th, so Brooklyn has no 74th today.

A working NYPD station house. Look from the Sixth Avenue pavement and leave the steps and the door to people who need the police. Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center are close by.

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A tall plain soundstage building with a large painted stage number beside a lot street
Soundstage 2 at CBS Studio Center, on Radford Avenue in Studio City, January 2012. Cbl62 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Inside · Studio City

CBS Studio Center

Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles

The precinct’s interiors were a set built on the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City, California.

A 2014 set visit by The Gazette found the show shooting at a CBS studio, photographed Chelsea Peretti and Stephanie Beatriz in the break-room set, and recorded Holt taking questions in his office.

Dan Goor credited Thinnes and Call with inventing full menus for the show’s made-up restaurants.

A working studio lot; the gates are for productions. See the stages from Radford Avenue.

Sources
New York City Tourism + Conventions

TownePlace Suites New York Brooklyn

561 President Street, Gowanus

An extended-stay hotel between Gowanus and Park Slope, with kitchens in the rooms and breakfast included: inside the 78th Precinct’s patch.

Read about the hotel
New York City Tourism + Conventions

Tru by Hilton Brooklyn

529 President Street, Gowanus

Less than a mile from the Barclays Center, with breakfast included, pets allowed and a 24-hour market in the lobby. Bring the corgi.

Read about the hotel

Prospect Park · inside the 78th

Fetch,
Cheddar.

Prospect Park lies inside the 78th Precinct. Dogs may run off the leash from 6 to 9am and 9pm to 1am on the Long Meadow (but not its ballfields), the Nethermead and Peninsula Meadow. At all other times, and everywhere else in the park, they must be leashed.

Stewart, a corgi, played Holt’s dog Cheddar for longer than any other dog to take the part since 2013. He died in July 2019, aged 13.

Sources

0 of 7 places fetched

Choose an hour, set the throw, and throw. The harder you throw, the further from the precinct.

A wide misty meadow edged with autumn trees in early morning light
The Long Meadow in Prospect Park at 7.20 on a November morning in 2018, inside off-leash hours. Badtartin · CC BY-SA 4.0

Nothing fetched yet. The Long Meadow at 7.20 on a November morning: off-leash hours.

Sources for the meadow markers
Prospect Park Alliance

Off-leash morning on the Long Meadow

Prospect Park, Brooklyn · Free · 6–9am and 9pm–1am off leash

Free. Dogs may run off the leash on the Long Meadow (not the ballfields), the Nethermead and Peninsula Meadow from 6 to 9am and 9pm to 1am.

Read the dog rules
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Brooklyn walking tours

Brooklyn

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May 2018

Saved
by email.

The cast followed the news in a group text. Melissa Fumero said a network-to-network move had seemed unheard of; the word came by email, and Samberg told the others to check theirs.

Group text · the squad

  1. NewsFox has cancelled the show.

1 of 7 messages

Messages paraphrase what the cast and NBC told reporters that week.

Sources
Two women talking to an interviewer in front of a pale branded backdrop, one laughing mid-sentence
Melissa Fumero and Stephanie Beatriz at NBC’s upfront in New York, May 2018, days after the show was saved. Frame from Adweek’s interview. ADWEEK · CC BY 3.0
Two men in suits laughing in front of a pale branded backdrop
Joe Lo Truglio and Terry Crews at NBC’s upfront in New York, May 2018. Frame from Adweek’s interview. ADWEEK · CC BY 3.0

In May 2018, days after Fox cancelled the show, NBC picked it up for a sixth season of 13 episodes.

NBC’s sister studio Universal Television made the show, with Fremulon, Dr. Goor Productions and 3 Arts Entertainment.

NBC Entertainment’s chairman, Robert Greenblatt, said NBC regretted letting the show go to Fox and was bringing it back to its rightful home; Mike Schur, Dan Goor and Andy Samberg had all grown up on NBC. He told reporters NBC had passed when Schur and Goor first offered it the show in 2013.

A tall stepped Art Deco limestone tower behind the low buildings of Rockefeller Center
30 Rockefeller Plaza, NBC’s home, seen from Fifth Avenue in August 2024. D. Benjamin Miller · CC0

30 Rockefeller Plaza

30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown Manhattan

The tour at 30 Rockefeller Plaza shows where Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers are made.

NBC’s Midtown home. The Tour at NBC Studios starts here; use the Sixth Avenue entrance between 49th and 50th Streets. Book ahead on the tour’s site.

The Tour at NBC Studios

The Tour at NBC Studios

30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan · Sixth Avenue entrance, between 49th and 50th Streets · book on the tour’s site

NBC Pages take you through the building where Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers are made: NBC, the network that took the show back.

See the tour

Night shift

The squad,
off duty.

A smiling dark-haired man in a dark jacket, mid-interview
Andy Samberg in an interview, June 2016, during the show’s third season. Uproxx · CC BY 3.0

Andy Samberg 2016

A bald man in a dark suit and tie smiling slightly
Andre Braugher at the Peabody Awards, May 2011, two years before he became Captain Holt. Peabody Awards · CC BY 2.0

Andre Braugher 2011

A woman with dark hair pulled back speaking into a microphone on a panel
Stephanie Beatriz at San Diego Comic-Con, July 2018, the summer the show moved to NBC. Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0

Stephanie Beatriz 2018

A long curved white modernist hotel with its name in red letters on the roof line
The Beverly Hilton, Beverly Hills, in 2007. Minnaert · Public domain

The Beverly Hilton

Wilshire Boulevard at Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills

At the 71st Golden Globes here on 12 January 2014, hosted by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the first-season Fox comedy won best comedy series.

It beat The Big Bang Theory, Girls, Modern Family and Parks and Recreation. The same night Andy Samberg won best actor in a comedy series, for Jake Peralta. Those were the show’s only two Golden Globe nominations, and it won both.

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Three actors at a lectern on a stage, the man in the centre laughing
Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Melissa Fumero on stage at the ALMA Awards in Pasadena, 10 October 2014. UnidosUS · CC BY-SA 2.0

Pasadena Civic Auditorium

Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena

On 10 October 2014 Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Melissa Fumero presented at the ALMA Awards here. They handed the Special Achievement in Television award to Selenis Leyva and Dascha Polanco of Orange Is the New Black.

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Crowds outside the long glass front of a convention center
San Diego Comic-Con at the convention center, July 2019. Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 2.0

San Diego Convention Center

111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego

At Comic-Con in July 2018, two months after the move to NBC, Andy Samberg, Melissa Fumero, Terry Crews, Stephanie Beatriz, Joe Lo Truglio, Chelsea Peretti, Dirk Blocker and Joel McKinnon Miller took the panel with Dan Goor. Andre Braugher stayed away; Samberg said such events are not his thing.

Beatriz, who is bisexual like Rosa, said Goor had wanted a bisexual voice on Rosa’s coming-out story. The producers half-joked about a crossover with another NBC series.

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Los Angeles

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A huge glass-walled convention hall seen from the street
The Javits Center on the West Side of Manhattan, home of New York Comic Con. Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0

Javits Center, October 2026

Off
the leash.

At New York Comic Con in October 2026, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz and Joe Lo Truglio reunited, Dan Goor joined a panel about the show, and the three posted a photo together.

New York Comic Con was held at the Javits Center on 8–11 October 2026 and returns on 7–10 October 2027.

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Where it is now

8 places you can visit. The 78th is a working police station and CBS Studio Center a working lot: look from the street.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

  • Site reference · Restricted access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working NYPD station house. Look from the Sixth Avenue pavement and leave the steps and the door to people who need the police. Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center are close by.

  • Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park, open early till late. Dogs may run off the leash on the Long Meadow (not the ballfields) from 6 to 9am and from 9pm to 1am; at other times they stay on the leash.

  • Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. NBC’s Midtown home. The Tour at NBC Studios starts here; use the Sixth Avenue entrance between 49th and 50th Streets. Book ahead on the tour’s site.

  • Building reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A convention centre on the Hudson; New York Comic Con fills it each October.

  1. A pale stone and brick police station house on a Brooklyn corner, with arched ground-floor windows and bare winter trees
    The 78th Precinct station house on Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, February 2014: the front of the show’s 99th. Autopilot · CC BY-SA 3.0

    New York · 65 Sixth Avenue at Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

    78th Precinct station house

    The 78th Precinct’s station house is the exterior of the show’s fictional 99th Precinct.

    A working NYPD station house. Look from the Sixth Avenue pavement and leave the steps and the door to people who need the police. Atlantic Terminal and the Barclays Center are close by.

    Sources
  2. A wide misty meadow edged with autumn trees in early morning light
    The Long Meadow in Prospect Park at 7.20 on a November morning in 2018, inside off-leash hours. Badtartin · CC BY-SA 4.0

    New York · Prospect Park, Brooklyn, entered from Grand Army Plaza or Prospect Park West

    Long Meadow, Prospect Park

    Dogs may run off the leash from 6 to 9am and 9pm to 1am on the Long Meadow (but not its ballfields), the Nethermead and Peninsula Meadow. At all other times, and everywhere else in the park, they must be leashed.

    A public park, open early till late. Dogs may run off the leash on the Long Meadow (not the ballfields) from 6 to 9am and from 9pm to 1am; at other times they stay on the leash.

    Sources
  3. A tall stepped Art Deco limestone tower behind the low buildings of Rockefeller Center
    30 Rockefeller Plaza, NBC’s home, seen from Fifth Avenue in August 2024. D. Benjamin Miller · CC0

    New York · 30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown Manhattan

    30 Rockefeller Plaza

    In May 2018, days after Fox cancelled the show, NBC picked it up for a sixth season of 13 episodes.

    NBC’s Midtown home. The Tour at NBC Studios starts here; use the Sixth Avenue entrance between 49th and 50th Streets. Book ahead on the tour’s site.

    Sources
  4. A huge glass-walled convention hall seen from the street
    The Javits Center on the West Side of Manhattan, home of New York Comic Con. Kidfly182 · CC BY 4.0

    New York · West Side of Midtown Manhattan, by the Hudson

    Javits Center

    At New York Comic Con in October 2026, Melissa Fumero, Stephanie Beatriz and Joe Lo Truglio reunited, Dan Goor joined a panel about the show, and the three posted a photo together.

    A convention centre on the Hudson; New York Comic Con fills it each October.

    Sources

Stay

Sleep inside the 78th’s patch.

Two hotels on President Street, between Gowanus and Park Slope.

New York City Tourism + Conventions

TownePlace Suites New York Brooklyn

561 President Street, Gowanus

An extended-stay hotel between Gowanus and Park Slope, with kitchens in the rooms and breakfast included: inside the 78th Precinct’s patch.

Read about the hotel
New York City Tourism + Conventions

Tru by Hilton Brooklyn

529 President Street, Gowanus

Less than a mile from the Barclays Center, with breakfast included, pets allowed and a 24-hour market in the lobby. Bring the corgi.

Read about the hotel

Go there

Walk the beat.

The meadow at dawn, NBC’s tour, and marketplace tours in Brooklyn and Los Angeles.

Prospect Park Alliance

Off-leash morning on the Long Meadow

Prospect Park, Brooklyn · Free · 6–9am and 9pm–1am off leash

Free. Dogs may run off the leash on the Long Meadow (not the ballfields), the Nethermead and Peninsula Meadow from 6 to 9am and 9pm to 1am.

Read the dog rules
The Tour at NBC Studios

The Tour at NBC Studios

30 Rockefeller Plaza, Manhattan · Sixth Avenue entrance, between 49th and 50th Streets · book on the tour’s site

NBC Pages take you through the building where Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers are made: NBC, the network that took the show back.

See the tour
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Brooklyn walking tours

Brooklyn

Live marketplace results for walking tours of Brooklyn. None is about the show; check the routes for Prospect Heights and Park Slope.

Live marketplace results · itineraries change

Compare tours
Viator · Ad / affiliate

Hollywood studio tours

Los Angeles

Live marketplace results for studio and TV tours in Los Angeles. CBS Studio Center is a working lot; check what each tour includes.

Live marketplace results · itineraries change

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What’s on

Comic-Con, next October.

Where three of the cast reunited this year.

New York Comic Con

New York Comic Con 2027

Javits Center, Manhattan · 7–10 October 2027

Where three of the cast reunited in October 2026, with Dan Goor on a panel. Next year’s guests are not announced.

See the dates

Take it home

A book.

Terry Crews’s memoir.

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Manhood

Terry Crews

Terry Crews’s memoir, published in 2014, the show’s first year.

Find the book

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The duty log

Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.

8 of 8 places · 14 of 14 stories

  • 78th Precinct station house

    65 Sixth Avenue at Bergen Street, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

    • The front of the 99th

      The 78th Precinct’s station house plays the fictional 99th in the show’s exterior shots.

    • No 99th in Brooklyn

      Brooklyn’s precinct numbers run from 60 to 99, but the real ones stop at 94.

    • The same patch

      The 78th covers Park Slope and Prospect Park, the 99th’s patch; a map in one scene matches the 78th’s.

  • Long Meadow, Prospect Park

    Prospect Park, Brooklyn, entered from Grand Army Plaza or Prospect Park West

    • Off-leash hours

      Dogs run free on the Long Meadow before 9am and after 9pm.

  • CBS Studio Center

    Radford Avenue, Studio City, Los Angeles

    • The precinct indoors

      The precinct’s interiors are a set built on the CBS Studio Center lot.

    • The break room

      A 2014 set visitor finds Chelsea Peretti and Stephanie Beatriz in the break-room set, and Holt taking questions in his office.

    • Invented menus

      The show’s made-up restaurants get complete invented menus.

    • Cheddar

      Stewart the corgi plays Holt’s dog Cheddar longer than any other dog.

  • The Beverly Hilton

    Wilshire Boulevard at Santa Monica Boulevard, Beverly Hills

    • Two Golden Globes

      The first-season comedy wins best comedy series, and Andy Samberg best actor.

  • Pasadena Civic Auditorium

    Pasadena Convention Center, Pasadena

    • Three presenters

      Stephanie Beatriz, Terry Crews and Melissa Fumero present at the ALMA Awards.

  • San Diego Convention Center

    111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego

    • The first NBC summer

      The cast take a Comic-Con panel two months after the move to NBC.

  • 30 Rockefeller Plaza

    30 Rockefeller Plaza, Midtown Manhattan

    • Picked up

      Days after Fox cancels the show, NBC picks it up for 13 more episodes.

    • Check your email

      The cast follow the news in a group text; it comes by email.

  • Javits Center

    West Side of Midtown Manhattan, by the Hudson

    • Reunion

      Three of the cast reunite at New York Comic Con, with Dan Goor on a panel.

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