Carrie & Big’s Fifth Avenue Apartment

📍 1010 Fifth Avenue, at East 82nd Street

🎬 Movie

This is the enormous Fifth Avenue apartment Big finds for Carrie and himself in the first movie. The apartment seems almost absurdly perfect: huge rooms, an extraordinary Central Park location, but the closet isn’t nearly big enough.

The enormous closet that becomes central to their relationship.

The exterior of 1010 Fifth Avenue was used in filming; the actual canopied entrance is around the corner on East 82nd Street, and interiors were filmed elsewhere.

👠 Carrie

930 Park Avenue

📍 930 Park Avenue, near East 81st Street

🎬 Movie

The building’s exterior stands in for Charlotte’s apartment building. Charlotte’s fictional address is 700 Park Avenue.

In the movie, Carrie also arrives here in her wedding dress.

💎 👠 Charlotte • Carrie

Church of the Holy Trinity

📍 316 East 88th Street

📺 Season 3, Episode 12 — “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

Charlotte and Trey marry here.

Carrie arrives after finally telling Aidan about her affair with Big. She runs into Aidan outside the church, and the two share an emotional moment before Carrie joins the other women for Charlotte’s wedding.

💎 👠 Charlotte • Carrie

The Carlyle — Bemelmans Bar

📍 35 East 76th Street

🎬 Movie

Carrie meets Louise from St. Louis at Bemelmans Bar. Louise becomes Carrie’s personal assistant and helps Carrie rebuild her life after the disastrous wedding. The elegant bar becomes part of Carrie’s attempt to rebuild her life after her relationship with Big collapses.

💗 👠 Carrie

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

📍 Central Park, around East 90th Street

📺 TV series: recurring location

The Reservoir appears in several of the show’s Central Park sequences.

It is a recurring SATC landscape rather than tied to one single storyline: walks, conversations, and emotionally charged encounters frequently use Central Park as the backdrop for the women’s lives.

👠 💎  Carrie • Charlotte

Loeb Boathouse

📍 Central Park, East 72nd Street

📺 Season 3 finale —“Cock-a-Doodle-Do”

Carrie and Big meet for lunch at the Boathouse after Big’s marriage ends. The reunion starts awkwardly and becomes increasingly complicated. Big lunges for a kiss, Carrie resists—and the two wind up falling into the lake.

It is one of the most recognizable physical-comedy scenes in the series.

👠 Carrie

Ladies Pavilion

📍 Central Park, near West 77th Street

🎬 Movie

It is one of the quieter Central Park moments in the film, away from the restaurants, fashion shows, and wedding drama. Carrie and Miranda sit together and talk.

👠 💼 Carrie • Miranda

Columbus Circle

📍 Columbus Circle — Broadway, Central Park West, 8th Avenue & West 59th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 15 — “Change of a Dress”

Carrie and Aidan break up for the last time here. Carrie still wears the white dress and tells Aidan she cannot marry him.

👠  Carrie

The Plaza Hotel

📍 768 Fifth Avenue

📺 TV series: Season 2, Episode 18 — “Ex and the City”

The Plaza is particularly important to Carrie and Big’s story.

After Big and Natasha’s engagement, Carrie sees Big outside the Plaza and confronts him. Hurt that Big appears willing to marry Natasha after repeatedly telling Carrie that he did not want to marry again, Carrie compares their situation to The Way We Were:

“Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.”

👠  Carrie

Tiffany & Co.

📍 Fifth Avenue & East 57th Street

📺 TV series: Season 3, Episode 12 — “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Tiffany becomes part of Charlotte’s engagement story with Trey. For Charlotte, Tiffany represents almost everything she imagines romance should be: traditional, elegant, timeless—and very expensive. After an awkward, accidental proposal at a restaurant where Trey casually replies, “All righty,” he makes it up to Charlotte by taking her to the Tiffany & Co. flagship store on Fifth Avenue to pick out a proper ring. The location fits Charlotte particularly well because her idea of a perfect relationship is closely tied to the rituals of conventional romance.

💎 Charlotte

Christie’s

📍 20 Rockefeller Plaza

🎬 Movie

The four women attend an auction at Christie’s. Samantha becomes determined to acquire a diamond flower ring, turning a sophisticated afternoon at an auction house into another Samantha-style competition.

💋 Samantha

The Modern

📍 9 West 53rd Street

🎬 Movie

This is where Carrie announces to the girls that she and Big are getting married in the first Sex and the City movie. Carrie has barely delivered the news when Charlotte becomes so excited that she screams, prompting Miranda to complain that she is now deaf. Samantha, naturally, is more interested in the wedding’s implications for the group—and the inevitable wardrobe opportunities.

👠 💼 💎 💋 Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha

Manolo Blahnik

📍 31 West 54th Street — historic SATC-era location

📺 TV series: recurring location

For Carrie, Manolo Blahnik is practically a place of worship.

The boutique became one of the most recognizable fashion locations in the series and is repeatedly associated with Carrie’s obsession with shoes. Her Manolos are more than accessories: they become plot devices, financial disasters, status symbols, and occasionally even the object of romantic theft.

The address refers to the historic SATC-era location. The brand’s current retail location is 717 Madison Ave.

👠 Carrie

Bryant Park

📍 Sixth Avenue & West 41st Street

📺 🎬 TV series + Movie

Bryant Park is one of the show’s great fashion-world locations. The series uses it for Fashion Week-related scenes and fashion-industry encounters, while the first movie returns to the park for another fashion spectacle. It is a quintessential SATC location because it brings together fashion, celebrity, and ordinary New York street life.

👠 💼 💎 💋 Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha

Former Condé Nast Building

📍 4 Times Square

🎬 Movie

The Condé Nast offices represent Carrie’s professional world and her connection to New York’s fashion and publishing industry. The location is particularly important to Carrie’s evolution from newspaper columnist to author and fashion-world celebrity.

The movie was also filmed around Times Square and Fifth Avenue to reflect Carrie’s fashion/media life.

👠 Carrie

New York Public Library

📍 476 Fifth Avenue

🎬 Movie

Carrie and Big’s planned wedding is supposed to take place at the New York Public Library. Carrie chooses the library because she sees it as a fitting place for a wedding, surrounded by the world’s great love stories. The wedding, of course, does not go according to plan.

👠  Carrie

Hermès

📍 691 Madison Avenue — historic SATC-era location

📺 Season 4, Episode 11 — “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”

Samantha desperately wants an orange Birkin bag. When the store tells her there is a waiting list, she claims she is shopping for her client, Lucy Liu. The scheme works—until Samantha’s deception catches up with her. She is eventually fired from her PR job over the incident. It is pure Samantha: luxury, celebrity, social status, and absolutely no willingness to accept the word “no.”

💋 Samantha

Monkey Bar

📍 60 East 54th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 3 — “Defining Moments”

Carrie and Big go to the Monkey Bar as they try to redefine their relationship as friendship. They dress up, have drinks, and try to act like they are perfectly comfortable being “just friends.”

The evening becomes complicated when Carrie attracts the attention of jazz musician Ray King. Big’s reaction makes it painfully obvious that his feelings about Carrie are considerably less platonic than he would like to admit. The Monkey Bar is therefore an important stop in the transition from Carrie-and-Big-the-couple to the complicated relationship that follows.

👠  Carrie

Tao

📍 42 East 58th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 3 — “Defining Moments”

Carrie attends the opening of Tao Uptown while dating jazz musician Ray King.

The evening becomes awkward when Carrie, Ray, Big, and Samantha all end up in the same orbit. It’s another reminder that in SATC, New York is small enough that your ex, your friend, and your current date can all end up at the same restaurant.

👠  Carrie

Da Marino

📍 220 West 49th Street

📺 TV series Season 2, Episode 8 — “The Man, the Myth, the Viagra”

Da Marino is where Big serenades Carrie with Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year.”

It is also significant because Big publicly refers to Carrie as his girlfriend, an important moment in their relationship.

The restaurant is one of the series’ recognizable Midtown Italian locations.

👠 Carrie

Russian Samovar

📍 256 West 52nd Street

📺 Season 6, Episode 12 — “One”

Aleksandr Petrovsky takes Carrie here for their first date. They meet for dinner around 1 a.m., immediately establishing Petrovsky’s unconventional approach to romance. Carrie eats Russian food, including veal aspic, which Carrie effectively rebrands as “meat Jell-O,” while the two discuss art and get to know each other.

The restaurant had an especially interesting real-life connection to the storyline: Petrovsky was played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, who was also an owner of the real restaurant.

👠 Carrie

21 Club

📍 21 West 52nd Street

📺 Season 6, Episode 11 — “The Domino Effect”

The restaurant fits the sophisticated Midtown world that surrounds many of their dates: old New York, expense-account glamour, and the assumption that dinner itself can be an event. Carrie and Big have dinner here, and Carrie learns about Big’s heart surgery.

👠  Carrie

Brasserie 8½

📍 9 West 57th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 2 — “The Real Me”

Fashion-show producer Lynne Cameron approaches Carrie and wants her to participate in a fashion show featuring models and stylish New Yorkers. The restaurant’s glamorous Midtown setting is perfect for one of the show’s recurring themes: Carrie’s ordinary life repeatedly colliding with the fashion world.

👠 Carrie

Hotel Giraffe

📍 365 Park Avenue South

🎬 Movie

The Hotel Giraffe’s Piano Suite was transformed into Big’s luxurious apartment.

The movie presents it as Big’s Upper East Side apartment, but the actual filming location is in the Gramercy area.

👠  Carrie

Pete’s Tavern

📍 129 East 18th Street

📺 Season 6, Episode 14 — “The Ick Factor”

Miranda and Steve sit outside Pete’s Tavern. After watching an older couple argue, Miranda proposes to Steve. The scene is especially meaningful because Miranda has spent much of the series resisting traditional expectations about relationships and marriage. Here, she proposes.

💼 Miranda

Eleven Madison Park

📍  11 Madison Avenue

📺 Season 2, Episode 18 — “Ex and the City”

Carrie and Big meet for dinner here while trying to maintain a friendship. Then Big tells Carrie that he and Natasha are engaged. Carrie is devastated because Big repeatedly told her he didn’t want to marry again. The news therefore isn’t simply about Natasha—it forces Carrie to confront the possibility that Big’s problem may have been marrying her, rather than marriage itself.

👠  Carrie

Buddakan

📍 75 Ninth Avenue

🎬 Movie

Buddakan is the location of Carrie and Big’s rehearsal dinner. The evening begins as a glamorous celebration and quickly turns uncomfortable. Miranda’s comments about marriage and Steve’s infidelity contribute to Big’s growing anxiety about marriage.

👠 💼 💎 💋 🕴️ Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha • Big

Pleasure Chest

📍 156 Seventh Avenue South

📺 Season 1, Episode 9 — “The Turtle and the Hare”

The Pleasure Chest is the real sex shop associated with Charlotte’s Rabbit storyline.

Charlotte buys the vibrator, becomes increasingly attached to it, and eventually causes concern among her friends. The women ultimately stage an intervention because the Rabbit appears to have become more dependable than Charlotte’s romantic partners.

💎 Charlotte

Samantha’s Apartment Exterior

📍 403/407 West 13th Street

📺 TV series

Samantha’s fictional address is 300 Gansevoort Street. The actual filming location is:

• 403 West 13th Street — apartment exterior
• 407 West 13th Street — entrance/front door

Samantha’s move downtown reflects her embrace of the increasingly fashionable Meatpacking District.

💋 Samantha

Diane von Furstenberg

📍 440 West 14th Street

🎬 Movie

Carrie visits Diane von Furstenberg’s store and calls Samantha. The scene blends Carrie’s fashion obsession with her need to stay connected to her friends amid the emotional chaos of her relationship with Big.

👠 💋 Carrie • Samantha

Soho House

📍 29–35 Ninth Avenue

📺 Season 6, Episode 10 — “Boy, Interrupted”

The women visit the exclusive Soho House pool. Samantha sneaks into the exclusive members’ club by posing as British socialite Annabelle Bronstein. She spends time around the rooftop pool before being discovered. Samantha’s determination to access the glamorous private club becomes the central joke, and the women eventually get thrown out.

💋 Samantha

Pastis

📍 52 Gansevoort Street

📺 Season 6, Episode 17 — “The Cold War”

Pastis is associated with Carrie’s relationship with Aleksandr Petrovsky. After their first date at Russian Samovar, Carrie and Petrovsky continue their relationship through several glamorous downtown encounters. The Meatpacking restaurant fits the sophisticated, European atmosphere surrounding Carrie’s romance with the Russian artist.

👠  Carrie

City Bakery

📍 3 West 18th Street

📺 Season 5, Episode 6 — “Critical Condition“

Carrie spots Nina Katz—the woman Aidan dated right after their breakup. The characters dub Nina the “face girl” because of the judgmental, horrified expression she made when she first found out Carrie was the one who broke Aidan’s heart.

The City Bakery was a beloved real-life New York establishment, but it unfortunately closed its doors permanently in 2019.

👠 💋 Carrie • Samantha

Carrie’s Brownstone

📍 66 Perry Street

📺 🎬 TV series + Movies

Carrie’s fictional address is 245 East 73rd Street, but her famous exterior is actually in the West Village.

64 Perry Street was used during the early seasons; production later settled on 66 Perry Street, which became the iconic Carrie stoop.

👠 Carrie

Magnolia Bakery

📍 401 Bleecker Street

📺 Season 3, Episode 5 — “No Ifs, Ands, or Butts”

Carrie and Miranda sit outside Magnolia Bakery eating cupcakes while Carrie tells Miranda about her crush on Aidan.

👠 💼 Carrie • Miranda

Aidan’s Furniture Store

📍 818 Greenwich Street

📺 TV series

This is the location used for Aidan’s furniture business. Carrie’s relationship with Aidan is closely tied to the store because it reflects his personality: handmade, relaxed, and grounded, in contrast to Carrie’s fashion-obsessed world.

👠 Carrie

Jefferson Market Garden

📍 70A Greenwich Avenue

📺 TV series

This is where Miranda and Steve marry. Their wedding is intimate and emotional, not elaborate.

💼  Miranda

Church of the Transfiguration — “The Little Church Around the Corner”

📍 1 East 29th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 3 — “The Agony and the ‘Ex’-tacy”

This is where Samantha meets the handsome priest she nicknames “Friar Fuck.” Samantha volunteers at the church specifically because she is attracted to him. Her attempt to seduce a priest becomes one of the show’s classic Samantha storylines. The chapel scenes were filmed inside the church, with exterior scenes nearby.

💋 Samantha

Il Cantinori

📍 32 East 10th Street

📺 Season 4, Episode 1 — “The Agony and the ‘Ex’-tacy”

Samantha organizes Carrie’s 35th birthday dinner here. Carrie arrives expecting a fabulous evening with all her friends. Instead, one after another, the women are late—and Carrie finds herself sitting alone at a table intended for ten.

It is one of the show’s funniest and saddest birthday scenes: Carrie’s grand romantic expectations meet the reality of New York life.

👠 Carrie

St. Mark’s Comics

📍 11 St. Mark’s Place

📺 Season 3 — “Hot Child in the City”

Carrie gets her shoe repaired around St. Mark’s Place and ends up dating Wade, who works at the comic-book store and lives with his parents. Part of the episode was filmed at the actual St. Mark’s Comics location.

👠 Carrie

Joe’s Pub

📍 425 Lafayette Street

📺 Season 5, Episode 6 — “Critical Condition”

Carrie goes with Stanford to see Stanford’s boyfriend perform. Carrie is distracted by anxiety about her upcoming book review.

👠 Carrie

St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery

📍 131 East 10th Street

📺 Season 6,  Episode 18 — “Splat!”

Carrie and Miranda are outside the church during Lexi Featherston’s funeral. Carrie uses the moment to tell Miranda she’s decided to leave New York and move to Paris with Aleksandr Petrovsky.

👠 💼 Carrie • Miranda

Louis K. Meisel Gallery

📍 141 Prince Street

📺 TV series

Charlotte works here as an art dealer during Season 1. The gallery becomes the setting for the infamous exhibition of vagina paintings, one of the show’s most memorable art-world storylines.

💎 Charlotte

Onieal’s — “Scout”

📍 174 Grand Street

📺 Seasons 3–6

Onieal’s stands in for Scout, the bar opened by Steve and Aidan. Scout becomes a gathering place for the women and their partners and plays an important role in the later seasons.

The fictional bar is named after Steve’s dog.

👠 💼 💎 💋 Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha

Balthazar

📍 80 Spring Street

📺 Season 1, Episode 5 — “The Power of Female Sex”

Carrie and Samantha struggle to get a table at a crowded French restaurant. In the episode, the restaurant is called Balzac; the real location is Balthazar.

Carrie eventually gets a table by offering the hostess a tampon.

👠 💋 Carrie • Samantha

Mercer Kitchen

📍 99 Prince Street

🎬 Movie

The women gather there as Miranda’s marriage deteriorates and Carrie and Big’s wedding plans get increasingly complicated.

👠 💼 💎 💋 Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha

Starbucks / Astor Place

📍 13–25 Astor Place

🎬 Movie

Carrie interviews prospective assistants here, including Louise from St. Louis, played by Jennifer Hudson.

👠 Carrie

Staten Island Ferry

📍 Whitehall Terminal, 4 Whitehall Street

📺 Season 3, premiere — “Where There’s Smoke…”

The four women take the Staten Island Ferry to see the FDNY firefighter competition. After drinking Long Island Iced Teas, Charlotte dramatically announces that she is going to get married that year. She does, in fact, eventually marry Trey.

It is one of the show’s quintessential New York moments because the ferry itself becomes part of the story.

👠 💼 💎 💋 Carrie • Miranda • Charlotte • Samantha

Brooklyn Bridge

📍 Brooklyn Bridge

🎬 Movie

The Brooklyn Bridge becomes the setting for Miranda and Steve’s reconciliation. After everything the couple has been through, Steve waits for Miranda on the bridge, and the two finally find their way back to each other.

💼 Miranda

SEA Restaurant

📍 114 North 6th Street, Williamsburg

📺 Season 6

SEA was used as the fictional restaurant Raw, where Samantha meets waiter Jerry Jerrod — later Smith Jerrod. At first, she sees him primarily as a handsome young man, but their relationship develops into one of the show’s most important later romances. Smith eventually becomes a successful actor, while Samantha remains one of the people who believed in him from the beginning.

💋 Samantha