Years before the premiere of And Just Like That…, during Sex and the City’s fourth season, over toast points and diner coffee, Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) says, “New York is a town of renters. Everybody rents,” to which Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis) respond, “I don’t.” By the end of the episode, Carrie doesn’t either. After purchasing her Upper East Side studio in a historic brownstone, she keeps it in her real estate portfolio for decades to come: On the Max reboot And Just Like That…, Carrie, Miranda, and Charlotte all still (more or less) live in their homes from the early seasons of the original show, making the real estate just as much a series regular as the fashionable women.
Design nuts will love that And Just Like That…’s second season, which premiered June 22 and airs on Thursdays, takes a more in-depth look at the newer characters’ abodes, from Seema Patel’s (Sarita Choudhury) jewel box on the top floor of an Upper East Side town house, to Lisa Todd (Nicole Ari Parker) and Herbert Wexley’s (Christopher Jackson) insane, custom his-and-hers closets in their palatial co-op.
For the inspiration behind the sets and details on filming locations, we went straight to the best sources: showrunner Michael Patrick King and production designer Miguel López-Castillo. Read on for the inside scoop on some of the show’s most glamorous shooting spots.
Carrie’s Upper East Side Jewel Box
If the show—both the original and And Just Like That…—has one iconic recurring scene, it’s Carrie sitting at her East 73rd Street–facing window pecking away at her laptop—probably writing, “I couldn’t help but wonder.” Though she mentions that her beloved home is uptown more than once throughout the series’ six seasons, both movies, and the reboot, the famous brownstone is actually on the West Village’s Perry Street. Today, the downtown home is worth about $21 million, but back when the columnist was renting her studio apartment, she paid only $700 per month, which is a bit absurd even in a rent-controlled building. In fact, Sarah Jessica Parker’s own West Village apartment sold for a whopping $15.8 million in 2020.
Of course, Carrie also lives in a Fifth Avenue apartment with her late husband, and, for a brief time, in an all-white Tribeca loft near the Hudson River, but she always tends to return to her first home, proving that “you can go home again, but it will cost you,” which she admits in the first Sex and the City movie.
