The Guy Who Lives in Carrie Bradshaw’s Apartment Is Fed Up With ‘Sex and the City’ Tourists

While Larry Sanders’ mansion doesn’t get much attention from the public, and as far as we know there is no Arliss sightseeing tour, at least one HBO comedy series from the ‘90s is still of interest to tourists: Sex and the City.

Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment wasn’t some kind of elaborate CGI creation, the brownstone is a real location in New York’s West Village, and it’s unsurprisingly a go-to stop for Sex and the City fans visiting New York.

Since the new reboot, And Just Like That…, found Carrie returning to her apartment following the Peloton-inflicted death of her husband, interest in the brownstone has seemingly spiked, which is bad news for the people currently living there.

In January, the owners of the building asked the city to let them put a gate up blocking the entrance, complete with a sign reading “Private Property: No Trespassing.” As one of the residents told the media at the time, they’re fine with fans taking pictures, but just requested “please don’t climb into our space and into our windows” — something that seems entirely fair. 

Now, one of the owners has seemingly gotten pretty fed up. As reported by The New York Post, just recently, a real-life person who in no way resembles Sarah Jessica Parker peeked his head out of the house and reprimanded the crowd of tourists. “You can’t just take over the street,” he protested. “I try not to do this, but sometimes people cross the line and I can’t. Thank you so much for understanding, have a great day. And remember, this is not empty, it’s a private home, and it’s not Carrie’s, it’s mine.” 

When a reporter tried to talk to the man, he accused them of “loitering” and added, “This is not a movie lot.”

The folks inside Carrie’s bachelorette pad aren’t the only people who have had to put up with issues caused by living in a fictional character’s home, just ask owners of the Breaking Bad house about their anti-pizza fence. 

And people living in the Friends apartment building have had to put up with “near constant public urination” thanks to pop-culture obsessed tourists. Could they be any grosser?

But, to be honest, the people who own the Sex in the City house should have known what they were getting into. The house sold in 2012 for a whopping $9.85 million. And that was well after the problems with fans had been well-documented. As we’ve mentioned before, fans who recreated a famous cupcake scene from the show routinely discarded wrappers on the ground outside the house. Because of the crowds and the garbage, one neighbor even described the street as a “hellhole.” 

It would have been a lot cheaper and quieter to buy a house from Dream On or Lucky Louie.