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The Real Housewives of New York City season 3

third season of the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ28451295 ↗
Source-derived summary

The third season of The Real Housewives of New York City, an American reality television series, is broadcast on Bravo. It aired March 4, 2010 until June 24, 2010, and is primarily filmed in New York City, New York. Its executive producers are Andrew Hoegl, Barrie Bernstein, Lisa Shannon, Pam Healy and Andy Cohen.

The Real Housewives of New York City focuses on the lives of Bethenny Frankel, LuAnn de Lesseps, Alex McCord, Ramona Singer, Jill Zarin, Kelly Killoren Bensimon and Sonja Morgan. It consists of 18 episodes.

This season marked the first departure of original housewife Bethenny Frankel. She eventually returned for the show's seventh season.

Production and crew

The Real Housewives of New York was a continued success for the network with season two averaging 1.88 million total viewers as well as being Bravo's most visited web page in 2009 with over 46 million total page views. In July 2009, the series was renewed for a third season with production beginning November later that year. The premiere date for season three of The Real Housewives of New York City was revealed in January 2010 and the cast the following month.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Real Housewives of New York City season 3” is third season of the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Real, Housewives and York, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Real, Housewives and York is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “third season of the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28451295. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Real Housewives of New York City season 3” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.