We are approaching what will be the season finale of what – until they announce season three – is the final chapter of And Just Like That and Sex and the City combined. We will see our dear Samantha Jones and have a second happy ending for Carrie, now at Aidan’s side at a new address in Manhattan. In 25 years, Carrie has always traveled, spent nights in luxurious and trashy places, and had a dream penthouse with Mr. Big, but never gave up her apartment in the Village. So now that it’s going to be sold, it’s one of the most significant breakups in the entire franchise. Do we ‘thank’ Aidan? And in March 2023 I called it here in Miscelana, that Carrie would adopt a cat, move into an apartment and join Aidan, but I hadn’t thought about the impact of what it really means.

Long before their separation, the second and final one, when Aidan bought the apartment next door and was breaking down the walls to unite them (how is that allowed in NY???), he already kind of wanted to get Carrie out of there. To the countryside, to a place of both… she resisted. Even with Mr. Big, she lived with him in their apartment, but she kept hers for quiet moments, to host friends. We have the same attachment as her to the property, I am heartbroken in advance for the farewell.

Carrie’s apartment is so iconic that it was part of the 25th-anniversary celebration with HBO Max, Sarah Jessica Parker herself, in a partnership with Airbnb and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, opened the doors to the ‘real’ city apartment. The recreation was only for a period, but very special.

The front of the apartment is at 66 Perry Street in the West Village. Inside, it’s unreal. First, even though Carrie justifies that she lived at the address before the real estate boom, the space with that closet was mathematically impossible for 1) her to support on a writer’s salary (at least initially) and 2) to store the volume of things she bought and kept in the original boxes. But who cares about realism?

Carrie’s apartment, the fifth member of the magical quartet, has always been her oasis. From that window, many pages were written, from the stairs, kisses, tears, and reunions. The redecorations were gradual until reaching the current format. The studio is part of Carrie and it bothers me that, even without Aidan asking, she has to break up with him. On the other hand, the anchor was tying her to the past, it’s time for Carrie to definitely allow herself to change. Literally.

Unsurprisingly, several articles over the years – including in the Economics section – discussed “Carrie’s Apartment”, which for many generations of women symbolizes the ultimate real estate aspiration. Supposedly, according to the series, it would initially be on 73rd Street, on the east side, but there is nothing like it in New York at that address, nor the $700 amount she claimed to pay as rent. In current values, the values would be around 3 thousand monthly and that’s because there is no elevator or doorman. And buy? No less than half a million dollars to start the conversation. And if it’s at the address where the apartment really is? Minimum sales would be $880,000, with an average monthly rent of $4,000. Now that she’s a wealthy widow, Carrie doesn’t blink to discuss Manhattan’s surreal values.

For those who accompanied Carrie Bradshaw’s 25 years, remember well that, in the pilot, the apartment was VERY different, it even had a fireplace that disappeared. However, from the second, it was consistent in its distribution, with the biggest and final reform during the film Sex and The City. Carrie’s new Gramercy Park apartment is incredible, no one argues. But how to close this chapter of her story? Tomorrow we will have excitement!

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