The Real Housewives of New York City is a reality television program on the Bravo network. As a spin-off of the successful series The Real Housewives of Orange County, it is the second version of the The Real Housewives of... series.

The show's first season premiered on March 4, 2008. The five housewives are Bethenny Frankel, LuAnn de Lesseps, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, and Jill Zarin. The women are not all actually housewives; the intent of the show is to reveal the lifestyles of relatively affluent women and their families living in New York. With the exception of LuAnn de Lesseps, the women all have active careers.