New York Ledger (Law & Order)

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New York Ledger is a fictional tabloid newspaper often seen in the television Law & Order franchise. On the show, it competes with the also-fictional New York Sentinel.

Heavily based on the real-life New York Post, right down to the typeset of its masthead, the Ledger is known in the show's universe for its lurid headlines and accompanying pictures, as well as its sensationalist portrayal of suspected criminals. This is supposedly in contrast to the Sentinel, which is meant to resemble The New York Times. The real life New York Daily News has also appeared in the series. Ledger writers have been featured in the show as sources to the detectives, and a writer from the Sentinel was charged with murder in a storyline based on the Jayson Blair scandal.

The paper was very briefly given its own spinoff, called Deadline, in 2000. It starred Oliver Platt as a reporter for the newspaper.

In the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Poison," a close-up shot of a letter addressed to the paper revealed that it is located at 208 South Street, New York, NY 10001, which is a non-existent address (208 South Street is in ZIP Code 10002[1]).