Now that the show has been revived with the reboot series And Just Like That on HBO Max, we couldn’t help but wonder: Will Carrie’s apartment come back as a star of the show? Even before AJLT premiered, we knew that Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) would return home one way or another thanks to AJLT’s official trailer, which offered a glimpse of Carrie in that aforementioned walk-through closet around the 0:13 mark. Plenty of paparazzi pics snapped during AJLT production in New York City throughout 2021 also showed Parker standing outside her old apartment—including one we’re really interested in finding out more about, with Parker donning dishwashing gloves, a housedress, oversized sunglasses and a kerchief around her head. As of AJLT episode 3, which premiered Dec. 16, we now know why Carrie winds up back there. (Warning: AJLT spoilers!) After Big died at the end of the premiere episode, the end of episode 3 finds Carrie taking a late-night walk from the Fifth Avenue pad she and Big shared (where she’s been having trouble sleeping since his death) back to her old apartment. In voiceover, she declares, “And just like that… I walked myself home.” Episode 4 then opens with a shot of Carrie waking up in her old place, complete with very outdated coffee machine. So, ready to knock back a few Cosmopolitans in that oversized Aidan chair and take a stroll down memory lane ? Let’s deep-dive into all the details about Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment: where it’s supposed to be, where it’s filmed, what it would be worth, and how it might appear in And Just Like That.
Where does Carrie live in Sex and the City?
SJP’s alter ego, the ultra-fashionable Carrie Bradshaw, lived on the ultra-fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan, also called the UES, in an amazing brownstone apartment. This neighborhood, also the fictional home of the socialites in the original Gossip Girl, is known as one of the ritziest areas of NYC, with fancy shopping, trendy restaurants and exclusive apartment buildings. It’s also home to Museum Mile, a stretch of museums that includes the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim.
What is Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment address?
At the end of Sex and the City’s first-ever episode, she told Big to have his driver drop her off at “72nd Street, 3rd Avenue,” giving viewers a hint of her NYC abode’s location. Then in the first season’s tenth episode, we see her full address written out on a baby shower invitation: 245 East 73rd Street.
Where is Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment really located?
If you try to find 245 East 73rd Street, as many an NYC tourists have, you will be sorely disappointed: The address does not exist. And the block that it would be on also doesn’t have any brownstones. So where is Carrie’s apartment in reality? The interior was filmed on a soundstage in Queens—but the exterior is a real place, 66 Perry Street in the West Village. (Yes, they used a downtown location to represent Carrie’s uptown apartment!) Prior to number 66 being used, 64 Perry Street first had the honor of portraying Carrie’s stoop, until production moved to the slightly more ornate staircase and door of number 66 after a couple of seasons.
Will Carrie’s apartment be in And Just Like That?
Abso-f***ing-lutely! Production was spotted filming exteriors of Carrie’s apartment in which our heroine is seen with a mystery man played by Jon Tenney—and (spoiler alert!) they were smooching on the street! This may leave viewers to predict Carrie and Big may be off-again, temporarily at least, with Carrie retreating back to the beloved pied-à-terre she’s kept all these years. Other pics from the AJLT shoot show Carrie talking to somebody from the window of her apartment while wearing a housedress, and an even stranger pic that shows her on the street in front of her old residence while seemingly wearing pink dishwashing gloves and (gasp!) smoking again! A New York Times set visit to the soundstage where Carrie’s apartment’s interior was filmed for And Just Like That revealed that it now has “lilac paint and statement wallpaper.”
Can you visit Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment?
As 66 Perry Street is a real location, you can go there, but residents have asked visitors be respectful. At one point, the owners strung a chain across their stoop to stop people from sitting on the steps and posing for photos. Reportedly, the owners also asked Sex and the City bus tours to avoid stopping there—and we can’t blame them. How would you feel if you had tourists gawking at your house all day long? They even prevented armchair stalking by having the image of their house blurred out on Goggle Maps.
Did Carrie Bradshaw live in a studio?
Sort of. According to the experts at the real estate website Hauseit.com, to be considered a legal bedroom in New York City, a room must have a door and a window, be at least eight feet in any direction and have a ceiling height of eight feet. (NYC bedrooms do not need to include a closet, although that’s not a problem for Carrie’s apartment!) Although Carrie’s bedroom is set apart from the main living space and has a window, it doesn’t have a door; for this reason, it can’t legally be considered a one-bedroom. Real estate expert Sonja Gosine at Hauseit tells Parade.com that Carrie’s apartment would be defined as an “alcove studio,” in which the living space is L-shaped so the bedroom is in an alcove that can’t be seen when entering the apartment. “The unit would still be considered an alcove studio since there is no wall dividing the sleeping area and the living room,” she says. However, the sleeping space in alcove studios is usually smaller than Carrie’s. So if her apartment was to be listed, “some brokers might prefer not to use the term alcove studio to describe her unit, as the sleeping area in an alcove studio is typically smaller than a legal bedroom,” Gosine says. “Assuming it meets the dimensions for a legal NYC bedroom, then a good broker would put up two floor plans for the property, one as it stands and one with a hypothetical dividing wall put in, and market it as a one-bedroom apartment.” We’ve also seen the term “junior one-bedroom” or “junior 1,” which is often a studio that has been converted into a one-bedroom. “If the sleeping area did not have a window and they added a dividing wall, then it would be considered a junior 1,” Gosine says. But we have seen listings that call alcove studios junior ones—with or without windows, walls or doors—so it seems that beyond the legal definition of a proper one-bedroom, this is a gray area of NYC real estate.
How much would Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment cost?
Renters on the Upper East Side these days can expect to pay around $2,000-3,000 a month for a studio or one-bedroom in that neighborhood, according to the real estate website Renthop.com. If you were buying the flat, it may cost around $500,000. (For comparison, we found a lovely 1-bedroom, 1-bath in a historic building on East 93rd Street currently for sale on Zillow with an asking price of $499,000.) Based on Carrie’s apartment’s real-life exterior, buyers may be in for a lot more sticker shock. The real building at 64 Perry Street (the spot used for filming before the current exterior location at 66 Perry Street) is an amazing five-bedroom, single-family home last sold in 2013 for $13.25 million. You can see pics of the jaw-dropping interior from a previous listing on Sotheby’s. The real estate experts at Good Move estimate that the property would be worth just over $15 million today. On the other hand, next door at 66 Perry Street, the building has been divided into 5 units ranging from $2.8 million to $9.3 million to own. Zillow estimates you could have the mid-range $3.7 million one-bedroom apartment for rent for $4,517 a month if it was available. Or, this gorgeously updated two-bedroom unit in the building is worth $8.25 million, or $10,442 a month to rent, if it was on the market.
Is Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment for sale?
No, the buildings at 64 and 66 Perry Street are not currently for sale or rent.
Who lives in Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment?
The buildings at 64 and 66 Perry Street are privately owned, with one family taking up the whole of number 64 while 66 is divided into rental apartments. Reportedly, the owners of number 66 haven’t always been too happy with the building’s renown—although seemingly not enough to refuse the production of And Just Like That. Back in 2014, a report in the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column said that the residents have not been pleased about all the attention, especially after Sarah Jessica Parker took allegedly unsanctioned photos for her shoe line in front of the building. Gerald Banu, president of the Perry Street Association, told Page Six, “I heard about the shoot. They didn’t get the permission from the owner. The situation with SATC visitors is still very intense. People who live here get upset that the sidewalks are constantly jammed.”
Could Carrie Bradshaw afford her apartment?
On SATC, Carrie supposedly could afford her apartment because it was a rent-controlled $750 a month, although this stretches reality in the same way that Monica could afford her luxury Friends two-bedroom because it was her grandmother’s. Realistically, it was very unlikely she’d have been able to afford what would probably be a larger rent than what she says she paid. But now that Carrie is an accomplished author, her chances of affording the place (as well as her extensive shoe collection) have gone up dramatically.
Does Carrie Bradshaw own her apartment?
She does now, but she didn’t always. In fact, Carrie’s apartment woes were part of the storyline throughout Sex and the City. In season 4, Carrie’s boyfriend Aidan (John Corbett, who will reportedly also appear in And Just Like That) ponies up the cash to buy her apartment when it goes co-op. But when they break up, Aidan forces Carrie to buy him out—or get out of the apartment she’d lived in for so many years. After realizing she’s spent the equivalent of a down payment on shoes to the tune of $40,000 (and in reality, the down payment would probably have been even more), Carrie asks her friends for the cash. Charlotte (Kristin Davis) ends up giving Carrie her engagement ring to sell—she doesn’t need it anymore because she’s getting divorced. The Season 4 episode in which this occurs, “Ring a Ding Ding,” is one of the most controversial in the series, as viewers questioned Carrie’s choice of taking money from her friend. But Sex and the City writer-producer Amy Harris told CNBC’s Make It in 2017 that she thinks Carrie settled her debt with Charlotte. “Sarah Jessica and I talked about this: We believe she paid her back. It was a loan, not a gift, so she did have to learn to save a little, to not spend everything on shoes and clothes,” Harris said. “Carrie learned a lesson. I do believe she sat down every month and wrote Charlotte a check.”
Can you rent Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment on Airbnb?
Yes! Well, not anymore, but you could in November 2021, and not the exact apartment, but a near-replica of it in the downtown Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, in walking distance of the brownstone on Perry Street. The booking period was only for one weekend, but you can check out Airbnb to see the replica, which was hosted by SJP herself. The best part? Guests had access to Carrie’s signature blue closet, fully stocked with fashions to try on. “We’re wanting visitors to our city again, and I’m excited that there’s an opportunity for people to come visit our city and engage and have experiences at great restaurants and cultural institutions,” Parker told Condé Nast Traveler. “But I think there’s this added [factor] of being inside what is the closest I’ve seen to a recreated set of Carrie’s apartment that’s not [meant for] the actual show. To live there and to walk out that door.”
Where do Big and Carrie live?
In the first Sex and the City movie, Big and Carry plan to move into a huge penthouse apartment at 1010 Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, with the exteriors filmed at that actual address. In the second movie, Carrie reveals that they sold the extravagant apartment in favor of a more down-to-earth place—relatively speaking—12 floors below in the same building. But production moved the exterior shots of the building two blocks away to the slightly swankier entrance of the real-life 1030 Fifth Avenue. As with Carrie’s apartment, the interiors of their 12B apartment in the second movie were filmed on a soundstage. Parker posted some set pics of Big and Carrie’s apartment from And Just Like That, which appears to be the same flat, so it seems the couple has stayed put. At the end of Sex and the City 2, though, Carrie reveals she and Big kept her old apartment in case anyone (including their friends) needed a little extra space to retreat to. And just like that, viewers had a reason to keep visiting that special place again. Next, take a look back at all the amazing fashion from Sex and the City, with50 iconic Carrie Bradshaw looks we’ll never forget, from tutus to fancy shoes.
