SHAKEDOWN STREET.(The Talk of the Town)("Sex and the City" Tour)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 29-AUG-05

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"Sex and the City" stopped shooting in 2003, but for the residents of Perry Street between Bleecker and West Fourth the show hasn't gone away. Twice a day (three times on weekends), around fifty tourists, the majority of them women and about half of them foreign, stream down the block and form a line across the street from No. 66: Carrie's house. (Although Carrie Bradshaw, the character played by Sarah Jessica Parker, was said to live on East Seventy-third Street, her comings and goings were actually filmed on Perry.) The tourists take turns sitting on the stoop and posing for pictures, and after twenty minutes or so they return to a bus on Hudson, near the Magnolia Bakery, eager to move along to Hotel Venus, the next stop on what's known as the...

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