History Main / BigApplesauce

* The second 1980's ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' special takes place in "Big Apple City", a clear parallel to New York City. Additionally, there are various place names that are take offs on various locations in New York such as "Times Pear" (Times Square), "Sentimental Park" (Central Park), and "Spinach Village" (Greenwich Village).

* ''It's Kind of a Funny Story'' takes place in Brooklyn.

* Literary adventurers such as the Gray Seal, the Shadow, the Spider, Doc Savage, and others had bases of operation in New York.

* In John Birmingham's ''After America'' Manhattan is the scene of a battle for control between the restored US government and a coalition of pirates, mostly from West Africa and jihadis [[spoiler:looking for a homeland after the Second Holocaust]]. A third group, funded and armed by TheMafiya sits the battle out.

** In [[https://whateley.academy/index.php/story/there-s-an-angel-in-father-john-s-basement-part-1 "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement"]], Totem is shown communing with ''multiple'' GeniiLocorum representing different aspects of NYC, ranging from 'Show Biz', 'The Moneyman', and 'Street Life' to 'The Firefighter' and 'Mother Manhattan'.

* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', New York City has multiple major superhero groups (the Empire City Guard being the most prominent), a "teenage sidekicks" group, and a ton of "street heroes". There is a similar number of villains, and many super-powered individuals who just want to get on with their lives but still end up in the middle of things from time to time. There are at least three notable {{Bad Guy Bar}}s, two of which have been seen in-story. A couple of the main characters (like Phase, She-Beast and Techno-Devil, and Seraphim) and side characters (like Tempest) come from the New York area, too. The trope is zig-zagged a bit, though; while it is made clear from the few stories set there that NYC is ''the'' center of superhero/villain activity, and pretty much the only city anywhere with more superhumans than [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] itself, most of the actual stories take place elsewhere (Whateley being in [[LovecraftCountry rural New Hampshire]] for the sake of isolation and security), and the Whateley students themselves come from around the globe.

** Averted in ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': the producers originally wanted to set (and film) "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E03TomorrowAndTomorrowAndTomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow]]" in New York, but it would have cost too much, and rather than try to [[CaliforniaDoubling redress Toronto (where the show is filmed)]] as New York, they made a surprise decision to actually [[FilmingLocationCameo set the show in Toronto]]. This was the first time a ''Trek'' production has had any scenes set in Canada, or even mentioned it more than in passing.

*** DC published an ''Atlas of the DC Universe'' in the early nineties. This located Gotham in southern New Jersey and Metropolis in Delaware (the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse follows these locations too). [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Several other locations have been floated over the years as well.]]
** During the last few years of her post-Crisis run, [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman]] based Themyscira's embassy out of New York, though the actual scope of her adventures was still fairly international.

* Creator/DCComics averts this by having every hero protect a different (usually fictitious) city, although the two most famous (Gotham and Metropolis) are based on New York. The major [[Franchise/TheDCU DC]] comic book to be set in the real NYC was the 80s run of ''ComicBook/NewTeenTitans'' which had the original Titans Tower on an island in the East River.
** Superheroes that have lived in Franchise/TheDCU's New York include the Franchise/{{Green Lantern}}s Alan Scott (originally based in Gotham), Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner; Plastic Man; ComicBook/PowerGirl (when she's not living in Metropolis); [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Manhattan Guardian]]; ComicBook/{{Artemis}} while she [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 was the current]] Franchise/WonderWoman, the ComicBook/TeenTitans before they removed to San Francisco; and the original Sandman. ComicBook/{{Static}} and ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} are the protectors of New York in the ComicBook/{{New 52}} continuity. [[ComicBook/IAmBatman The new Batman Jace Fox]] moved to New York in the aftermath of ''ComicBook/FearState'' wanting to get out of Bruce Wayne's shadow and be his own Batman.