There was truly NO reason for Carrie to move to Paris besides staying together with her boyfriend (and they weren't even dating that long). She loved New York and she had a steady job. Season 3, Episode 13: Escape from New York reva lucia Season 3 March 14, 2020 July 2, 2020 It is raining in New York City and we are supposed to feel bad for Carrie Bradshaw even though she is THE WORST for telling Aidan about her affair with Big when she was already ten minutes late for Charlotte’s wedding. Yes, Carrie Bradshaw’s life is the stuff of teenage dreams. The fact that she can afford an apartment in Manhattan when all she does is write one column a week proves that it is just that: a dream. Carrie Bradshaw is selfish. Sure, the TV series is narrated by her and about her, but her selfishness surpasses this.
It is a fact and universally acknowledged (at least in the world of Sex and the City) that if you have a rent-controlled apartment, you will be able to afford all the good things in life. That's how it came to be that the iconic Carrie Bradshaw's apartment (played by Sarah Jessica Parker), whose exterior was located on E. 73rd Street in New York (but whose inside was filmed at 66 Perry Street, according to Refinery 29), came to be 'affordable' for a freelance columnist.
In the 2000s, Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) became a true fashion icon with her designer-filled wardrobe featuring both cult and trendy pieces. Now, 16 years since the show has ended (it was on air from 1998 to. But Carrie Bradshaw just might be the epitome of “white feminism,” the kind of janky idealism that pays lip service to inclusion, even as it quietly chases wealth and wifedom.
Did we say Carrie also had a thing for designer bags (identified by InStyle as the iconic Fendi Baguette), shoes (Manolo Blahnik's Hangisi pump), clothes, cosmopolitans, and cab rides? While the math doesn't really add up, we can still wonder what her apartment would cost to rent if we wanted to move to the Upper East Side today.
How much is rent in New York's Upper East Side today?
Thanks to the Gods of Good Fortune, Girl Boss says Carrie only paid $700 a month for her Upper East Side, rent-controlled space, which the New York Daily News says would have cost $1,709 in 2000 (or about the time season 3 went to air, according to IMDb). Today, the Manhattan Rental Market Report shows the average, non-doorman apartment rental fee clocks in at about $2,160 a month for a studio, and just over $2,700 a month for a one-bedroom.
If Carrie's apartment was actually a two-bedroom that became a one-bedroom because the spare was turned into a walk-in closet, she'd be looking to pay just under $3,500 today. And if, as Girl Boss estimated in 2018, Carrie's sole income came from her column (which happened in season 1), she'd be making $4,333 a month. After utilities and food, there wouldn't be much left to pay for cosmopolitans, let alone the latest Manolos or a new Fendi Baguette.
Sex and the City aired its last episode almost 15 years ago, not including of course that questionable movie and its sequel. Carrie Bradshaw was the spirit animal for many New Yorkers and while she might not be making an appearance on our TV set anymore, her wisdom lives on in some of her most relatable musings about New York City.
1. “In New York, you’re always looking for a job, apartment or a boyfriend.”
2. “Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York in search of the two ‘L’s: Labels & Love.
3. “When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more.”
4. “Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future. This is known as Fashion Week…”
5. Carrie: “New York Magazine says Brooklyn is the new Manhattan.”
Miranda: “Yes, but whoever wrote that lives in Brooklyn.”
6. “Men in their forties are like The New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle. Tricky, complicated, and you’re never really sure you’ve got the right answer.”
7. “One of the best things about living in a city like New York is leaving it. My friend, Patience and her husband invited me out to the Hamptons for the weekend. Patience and Peter were the perfect married couple. They were fun, smart, and they looked like they fell out of a J. Crew catalog. If their house wasn’t right on the beach, I would’ve hated them.”
8. “That’s another reason I love New York. Just like that, it can go from bad to cute.”
9. “The most powerful woman in New York is not Tina Brown, or Diane Sawyer, or even Rosie O’Donnell. It’s the hostess at Balzac, which had overnight become the only restaurant that mattered.”
10. “If Louis was right, and you only get one great love, New York may just be mine. And I can’t have nobody talking shit about my boyfriend.”
11. “So maybe it won’t look like you thought it would in high school, but it’s important to remember that love is possible. Anything is possible. This is New York.”
12. “New York City is all about sex. People getting it, people trying to get it, people who can’t get it. No wonder the city never sleeps. It’s too busy trying to get laid.”
13. “I miss New York. Take me home.”
As New York Is To Carrie Bradshaw.. Good
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