In which city is Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them set in 1926?

The 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set in New York City in 1926.

The story follows Newt Scamander, a British magizoologist who arrives in New York with a suitcase containing magical creatures. After several creatures escape, Newt becomes involved with Jacob Kowalski, Tina Goldstein, and Queenie Goldstein. The film presents the American wizarding community and its rules as distinct from those shown in the Harry Potter books.

J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay, making it her screenwriting debut. The film’s title comes from the fictional Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Rowling originally published as a charity companion book in 2001 under the name Newt Scamander.

The setting is sometimes confused with later films in the series, which move to locations including Paris and London. New York is the principal setting of the first film and establishes the pre-war American magical world.