Serial tourism
Too many fans: New York’s “Sex and the City” house receives a goal
The last episode of the cult series “Sex and the City” came out around 20 years ago – but countless tourists still visit the filming locations in New York. It’s now too much for one homeowner.
Around 20 years after the end of “Sex and the City”, the owner of the series house of leading actress Sarah Jessica Parker (59) wants to lock her staircase with a gate in view of the continued influx of tourists. The responsible monument protection commission in New York approved a corresponding application.
“This house shouldn’t have a gate,” owner Barbara Lorber, who bought the 19th-century brownstone townhouse in Manhattan’s West Village in the late 1970s, said at the meeting. “For decades I’ve been hoping for this to stop, but now I think even someone as stubborn as me has to admit that this isn’t ending any time soon.”
Fans make a pilgrimage to Bradshaw’s house – and ignore the rope barrier
In the series, actress Parker plays columnist Carrie Bradshaw. Exterior shots of her house – which was located in the series on the Upper East Side in the east of Manhattan – were filmed on owner Lorber’s house and staircase in the West Village.
With the increasing success of the series, more and more fans were drawn there to take photos. The stairs are now cordoned off with a rope, but many people ignore it, as Lorber said. “Take all the photos you want from the street. But please do not climb into our private space and windows.”
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Source: Stern
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