The steps outside Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment won’t be as accessible as they used to be for fans of the show visiting New York.
The iconic setting featured heavily during the show’s run (and three movies), and because it was a known real-life location in Manhattan, hundreds of tourists and SATC fans would flock to it every day.
Carrie Bradshaw wearing Casadei python knee-high boots while walking home from a bit of light shopping (at Christian Dior and Jimmy Choo) and sitting on the stoop, smoking a cigarette, and flirting with a new man pic.twitter.com/6CMOVEvG99
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However, there’s one person who’s had enough of it, and that’s the woman who owns the building!
"At any hour of the day or night, there are groups of visitors in front of the house taking flash photos, engaging in loud chatter, posting on social media, making TikToc [sic] videos, or just celebrating the moment," she wrote to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Because the owner lives in a historic neighbourhood, she needs permission before installing the iron gate to keep crowds away from her home.
The application requesting the iron fence was first reported in the Substack newsletter FeedMe.
The owner had a sign in place saying “No Trespassing-Private Property" but said that “many" visitors did not respect it.
"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," she wrote.
“There have also been instances of graffiti painted on the steps and initials carved in the main door frame.”
"After 20 plus years of hoping the fascination with my stoop would die away and fans would find a new object for their devotion, I have acknowledged we need something more substantial," she concluded in her application.
"In order to regain a reasonable quality of life for our tenants and ourselves: we need to install a proper gate."
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Source: BBC
