The Real Housewives of New York City

The Real Housewives of New York City (abbreviated RHONY) is an American reality television series that premiered on March 4, 2008 on Bravo. Developed as the second installment of The Real Housewives franchise, following The Real Housewives of Orange County, it has aired seven seasons and focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women residing in New York City.

The series originally focused on LuAnn de Lesseps, Bethenny Frankel, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, and Jill Zarin. The seventh season lineup of housewives consisted of de Lesseps, Frankel, Singer, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill, Heather Thomson, Kristen Taekman, and Dorinda Medley. Of the original housewives, Frankel initially left after the third season before returning for the seventh; McCord and Zarin left after the fourth season; and de Lesseps was a friend of the housewives in the sixth. The remaining housewives joined in later seasons; Morgan in the third, Radziwill in the fifth, and Medley in the seventh. Other housewives include Kelly Killoren Bensimon (season 2–4), Cindy Barshop (season 4) and Aviva Drescher (season 5–6), Heather Thomson (season 5-7), and Kristen Taekman (season 6-7)