At this point in his career, Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian who can work as often or as little as he wants to. And now this popular stand-up performer, sitcom star and digital host is offering New York audiences the opportunity to see as much of him as they can take.

The Madison Square Garden Company announced on Tuesday that it was giving Mr. Seinfeld a residency at its Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he will perform stand-up roughly once a month, starting on Jan. 7, for at least six shows.

“A career comes out of the culture that you grew up in,” Mr. Seinfeld, 61, said on Tuesday at a news conference on the Beacon Theater stage. “And I feel like New York and Long Island is what gave me the perspective to do what I do.”

Mr. Seinfeld’s arrangement mirrors a similar one that the Garden announced with Billy Joel at the end of 2013. That deal made Mr. Joel, the piano-playing Long Island bard, the Garden’s first entertainment franchise (alongside sports teams like the Knicks, Rangers and Liberty), and gave him a regular monthly show at that arena that started on Jan. 27, 2014, and is planned to run through at least April 15, 2016.