Jerry Seinfeld's UWS Apartment Couldn't Exist: A Reddit Discovery

Upper West Side NY

12 April, 2021

12:39 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Jerry Seinfeld's Upper West Side apartment in "Seinfeld" has never come under the same scrutiny as Monica and Rachel's apartment in "Friends." However, an earth-shattering discovery on Reddit might make "Seinfield" lovers lose a little sleep this week. It turns out that Seinfeld's television apartment at 129 W. 81st St. isn't just fictional, but it literally couldn't exist by the governing laws of science. Look away now if you're not fully prepared. Jerry's Hallway Can't Exist. from r/seinfeld The issue at hand is that Jerry's kitchen intersects with what should be part of the Upper West Side building's hallway. Now, you might try to look past this point by saying that the hallway simply has a corner, but there are multiple scenes throughout the series in the exact hallway where Jerry's apartment door appears behind him. It is a shot that should be impossible given where Jerry's kitchen is located. The online reactions to the discovery of Seninfield's impossible hallway are a mix of refusal, quiet defeat, outright anger, and hindsight realizations. "It's not a lie...if you believe it," one Reddit user wrote, while a different Reddit account named Generic Scissors simply wrote, "damn you," in response to the new rendering. A different person couldn't hide their anger at the show's creators over the discovery. "Are we to believe this is some kind of magic apartment? I hope somebody got fired for that blunder," they wrote. An unrealistic television apartment is obviously not a phenomenon unique to "Seinfield." And if anything, the show deserves credit for the decades it took for any viewer to make a formal complaint about its inaccuracy. There's no doubt that a collection of true "Seinfeld" lovers will take the rendering of Jerry's impossible hallway as nothing more than yada, yada, yada.