Carrie Bradshaw's “Sex and the City” Brownstone Is Getting a Gate to Deter Disrespectful Fans

Sex and the City fans making a pilgrimage to Carrie Bradshaw’s iconic stoop may soon encounter a new obstacle.

On Tuesday, Jan. 14, New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a request from Barbara Lorber, the owner of 66 Perry St., to install a gate blocking the steps leading up to the historic brownstone’s front door.

The building in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village stood in for Sarah Jessica Parker’s character’s Upper East Side apartment in most of Sex and the City’s six-season run on HBO, as well as in Max’s revival series, And Just Like That. The beloved show’s popularity has drawn scores of fans to the address over the past two decades.

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Even Parker, who also owns a home in the neighborhood, shared photos of the address in an Instagram post the night before filming commenced on the first season of And Just Like That in 2021.

“My home is now a global tourist destination,” Lorber wrote in her application, according to Gothamist.

For years, fans visiting the building hoping to get a photo have found a chain across the stoop’s first step bearing a “No Trespassing — Private Property” sign, which Lorber reportedly installed at the suggestion of her local police precinct. But that has not deterred Sex and the City diehards.

“They climb over the chain, pose, dance or lie down on the steps, climb to the top to stare in the parlor windows, try to open the main entrance door, or, when drunk late at night, ring the doorbells,” Lorber’s statement reads. “We’ve also had graffiti painted on the steps and initials carved into the main door frame.”

Lorber explained in her application that she “felt sorry for the young location scout who was a recent grad from NYU Film School” when she was first approached to have her address featured in the show. “He told me if he didn't secure THIS house, he would lose his first real job in the business.”

That location scout was Tyson Bidner, who is now an executive producer on FX’s The Bear. Bidner told Gothamist that there was “probably some truth” to Lorber’s account. “I probably knew how great it was and how important it was to the show,” he said of 66 Perry St. “I’m sure I had a spiel about how she’d be taken care of and how well we’d treat it.”

“I feel so bad for the lady,” Rob Striem, also a former Sex and the City location scout, said. “I do remember groaning when we had to go back to Perry Street, by the end. Like ‘Oh, who’s going have to call that woman.’ ”

“I love what it was, and that house shouldn't be gated,” Lorber told the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday according to WABC. “But what was beautiful in the late 19th century is unfortunately, in need of more protection in our century.”

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In her application, Lorber wrote that she has spent 20 years waiting for Sex and the City fans to “find a new object for their devotion.” And she may get her wish: And Just Like That’s second season ended in 2023 with Carrie finally leaving her cozy Upper East Side home for a  lavish new address in Manhattan’s Gramercy Park.

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But the series still doesn’t seem to be done with 66 Perry St. In October, the show’s official Instagram account shared a photo from the final day of filming season 3 showing Parker standing on the sidewalk in front of her old building.

“Season 3 has officially wrapped production back where it all started,” the posts caption reads. “See you in 2025, lovers.”

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