Carrie Bradshaw’s one bedroom Greenwich Village apartment is one of the most recognised apartments from TV.
In addition to the beautiful brownstone façade, famous staircase and leafy sidewalk is its equally recognisable interior.
Sex and the City fans will recall piles of magazines and books strewn around Carrie’s apartment, her ever present laptop, the window she liked to peer out of when pondering over her latest column and that dreamy walk-through wardrobe.
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Here’s a reminder.
While Carrie’s apartment was pretty great for any single gal about town, it’s not quite as grand as the real life apartment behind the famous façade, which was used for external filming only (internal scenes were filmed on set).
Take a look…
Built in 1866, this historic home has five bedrooms and three bathrooms.
It has elegant and grand details throughout including herringbone wood floors, ornate crown mouldings, fireplaces with carved marble mantels, chandeliers, sconces, high ceilings and beautiful arches.
Quite a bit different from Carrie’s one bedder, isn’t it?
It’s also extremely spacious, especially by New York standards, with 4,100 square feet of interior space.
When it was last listed for sale in 2012, selling agent Sotheby’s Realty revealed the home had only been inhabited by two families since it was constructed.
It was designed by architect Robert Mook, who also planned most of the other Italianate style townhouses on the block.
Besides the fact that the on-screen interior is not actually part of this building, there are a few other discrepancies with this house where fictional claims don’t match up with reality.
While Carrie was supposedly living in the Upper-East Side, this building – 64 Parry Street – actually belongs in the West Village.
The second is the price to live there, which is a hard one to ignore. While on screen it only set Carrie back $700 a month, it real life it would cost her $USD 9.65 million to purchase, which was the listing price at its last sale.
With her columnist salary and well documented love of Manolo Blahniks, it’s very unlikely Carrie would even be close to affording that. But that’s the joy and escapism of TV right?
Twelve years after the show ended in 2004, a photo outside the 64 Parry Street residence is still on the to-do list of fans visiting New York.
