Sarah Jessica Parker has infuriated the owners and neighbors of the West Village townhouse that was Carrie Bradshaw’s home in “Sex and the City” by staging an apparently unauthorized photo shoot on the storied stoop for her glamorous shoe line.
After years of tourists streaming past and photographing the address made famous by Parker’s character, the fed-up owners of 66 Perry St. installed a metal chain across the steps that reads, “Do NOT go on staircase please.”
But on Oct. 7, SJP posted Instagram pictures of herself leaning over the chain and sign to place items from her SJP Collection for Nordstrom on the steps, then posing on the stoop alongside her sumptuous shoes, underneath a black hat. She wrote with the post, “It was take your @sjpcollection shoes to work day. #longdayforCarrie #whewwwwthosesteps #runninginheels #taxi!”
While the house owners agreed to let “SATC” use the facade as Carrie’s home for the show, they’ve since grown tired of the frenzied fan attention and want privacy. A source tells us, “The owners are up in arms as they deal with relentless tourists, and SJP has ignored their requests for an explanation on how she could endorse the shoot, even though ‘no trespassing’ signs are posted. SJP used their house during the years of filming, and now won’t acknowledge that she and her company used the steps and facade, this time without permission, to promote her shoe line.”
The owners of 66 Perry St. didn’t get back to us, but Gerald Banu, president of the Perry Street Association, told Page Six, “I heard about the shoot. They didn’t get the permission from the owner. The situation with ‘SATC’ visitors is still very intense. People who live here get upset that the sidewalks are constantly jammed.”
A rep for SJP — who is rumored to be working on “SATC 3” — said she could not be reached. While Carrie was last seen living in a new apartment with Mr. Big, Banu added that Perry Street remains the shrine, and “The only thing I could suggest to SJP is that when they write the next script, please have Carrie move to a new address.”