100 Centre Street

100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq. Premise The show takes its name for the Manhattan street address of the New York City Criminal Court and the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Criminal Term, for New York County. The show aired in the United States on the A&E Network cable television channel from 2001 to 2002. Some called it a more gritty and accurate version of Law & Order, although unlike Law & Order, 100 Centre Street focused more on the personal lives of its characters. Episodes focused on the friendship between Judge Rifkind, a liberal Jew, and Judge Sims, a lesbian African American, as well as the romance between Bobby and Cynthia, Ramon's infidelity to his wife Cassandra, J.J.'s potentially corrupt mob ties, Fatima's drug addiction, Rebecca Rifkind's estrangement from her father, and Spiegelman and Byrnes' political scheming. Main cast Alan Arkin as Judge Joe Rifkind Val Avery as Sal Gentile Bobby Cannavale as ADA Jeremiah "J.J." Jellinek Joel de la Fuente as ADA Peter Davies Paula Devicq as ADA/private attorney Cynthia Bennington Manny Pérez as Legal Aid attorney Ramon Rodriguez LaTanya Richardson as Judge Atallah Sims Joseph Lyle Taylor as ADA/PI Bobby Esposito Michole Briana White as Legal Aid attorney Fatima Kelly Bill J Vlasnic as Billy, Task Force detective on Jellinek's squad Episodes