Panucci's Pizza is the place of employment for the main character, Philip J. Fry. Panucci's is visited multiple times throughout the series in flashbacks, as well as in episodes that feature a retelling of the day Fry was frozen and taken into the future. Panucci's is discovered as an intact remnant of the 20th century in one episode, allowing Fry to retrieve his fossilized dog.
The Applied Cryogenics facility is a lab in both 20th-century and 31st-century New York. On New Year's Eve in 1999, Fry is sent to Applied Cryogenics to deliver a pizza; however, it is actually a crank call. While in the lab, Fry accidentally falls backward into one of the vats and is taken into the future. The 20th-century version of Applied Cryogenics makes multiple appearances during episodes that retell the story of Fry's coming to the future.
Fry's home, where he lives with his mother, father and brother Yancy, is a residence first introduced when Fry, Leela and Bender discover the home in the sewers below New New York, in a state of deterioration where it looks barely stable. As the scene fades into a flashback, the homes around it return to a normal state while it is revealed that Fry's home looked run-down and a millennium old, even in the 20th century.
In the "Futurama" wold, the Fox station building WNYW in New York is featured. A 20th-century Fox program plays a key role in one episode, as aliens in the future who have been receiving broadcasts of "Single Female Lawyer," a parody of "Ally McBeal," from the 20th century are angered when transmissions stop. As with Groening's other show, "The Simpsons," Fox (which broadcast both shows) and its programming are often mocked in "Futurama."
Although New York as we know it is portrayed as destroyed and abandoned in the future, with New New York built over it, the ruins of New York remain in the sewers beneath New New York. The sewers and ruins are home to the mutants, forbidden from life on the surface, and often when Fry and others venture to the ruins they can be seen walking past dilapidated remains of New York locations.