Where is the 15th Precinct?
NYPD Blue is set (of course) in New York City, New York, U.S.A. The detectives work in the (fictional) 15th precinct, which covers an area larger than your average real NYPD precinct, including parts of Chinatown, Little Italy, the East Village and Alphabet City (for the non-New Yorkers, all these neighborhoods are on the lower east side of Manhattan). The NYPD stationhouse exterior for the 15th Precinct is really the 9th Precinct house at 321 East 5th St. between 1st & 2nd Ave., which is the same one that was used on the 70s cop series Kojak and was a real precinct house in New York City. The 9th Precinct was recently moved to a location further east, and the familiar building went empty for a few years before the city finally demolished it.
