‘And Just Like That…’: Does Carrie Bradshaw’s Downtown Apartment Actually Exist?
Carrie Bradshaw took And Just Like That… viewers through a real estate journey in episode 6 of the famed reboot. Carrie, still downtrodden after the death of Mr. Big, opts to buy a new apartment to start over. She inexplicably chooses an ultra-modern, downtown apartment with sweeping views of the Hudson River. Carrie, in the end, decides the apartment isn’t right for her and heads back to her small but cozy accommodations on the Upper East Side. While the downtown pad likely won’t be seen again, fans of the series still want to know if the residence is real. After all, they know Carrie Bradshaw’s original apartment building actually exists, sort of.
Carrie’s ‘And Just Like That…’ apartment was just a set, and the background was a green screen
Fans enamored with Carrie’s downtown apartment won’t be able to take a stroll past the building. During an episode of And Just Like That… The Writers Room, the reboot’s official companion podcast, King revealed that Carrie’s downtown pad isn’t real. The production team built the apartment’s interiors on a soundstage. He disclosed that the team used a green screen to create the multi-million dollar view of the Hudson River. King explained that an apartment with that view and the ultra-modern design simply didn’t exist in Manhattan.
The apartment might only exist in the minds of the And Just Like That… production team, but it’s easy to pinpoint exactly where it would sit if it were real. The backdrop used in the scene where Anthony Marantino and Carrie are chatting in the apartment features a famous condo building. The pink building with distinctive balconies is located on West 11th Street, close to the Hudson River. Considering the background, if Carrie’s apartment were real, it would likely sit somewhere near the corner of Bethune and West, in the West Village.
The sari shop that Carrie Bradshaw visited with Seema Patel is a real business, though
While the production team dreamed up Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment, the Sari shop that she visited with Seema Patel is most assuredly real. On the show’s companion podcast, Michael Patrick King revealed that initially, Carrie and Seema were going to travel into Queens to buy saris. He changed the entire scene after he happened upon a sari shop in SoHo.
King explained that he found AVE, Indian Design Collective while wandering around. He said he knew they needed Carrie and Seem to visit the store. The owners were welcoming and kind added members of the production team. AVE is located on West Broadway in SoHo.
The interiors of Carrie’s iconic ‘Sex and the City’ apartment weren’t real
While Carrie’s iconic Brownstone exists, the building doesn’t sit where Carrie claimed to live. Carrie rattled off her address multiple times during the run of Sex and the City. According to the show, Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment was located at 245 East 73rd Street, making the sex columnist a resident of the Upper East Side. Instead, the real Brownstone is located on Perry Street, in the West Village.
The Perry Street exterior isn’t broken up into small studios, though. Instead, the two different Brownstones used in Sex and the City have served as private residences over the years. They were built in the 1800s.
While the exterior of the building is real, Carrie’s actual living space is not. The art department designed the studio apartment and created it on a soundstage. It makes a lot of sense, though. Carrie’s expansive closet was too good to be true.
