Sarah Jessica Parker’s performance of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City and And Just Like That is so iconically New York that fans can hardly traverse a tree-lined street of Greenwich Village or a classic New York townhouse without thinking of some scene from the show. If you’re one for nostalgia, you can walk in Parker’s fabulous designer shoes as her former townhouse just went on the market for an eye-watering $29.9 million.
Parker purchased the home in 2011 with her husband, Matthew Broderick, and renovated the space—though they reportedly never actually lived there, instead using it as an extra closet (could she be any more Carrie Bradshaw in real life?). The couple sold the townhouse in 2015 for $18.25 million, according to The New York Times.
The brownstone is located just one black from Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village at 20 E. 10th Street.
Built in 1864, the five-story red Greek Revival-style townhouse has six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and two half baths across five floors. While it maintains stunning architectural features original to the house—including pocket doors and seven woodburning fireplaces—Parker and Broderick refurbished the 6,800-square-foot space with a lacquer-black foyer entrance, a 1,000 bottle climate-controlled wine cellar, and a bilevel garden that can be viewed from a Juliet balcony on the parlor floor. There’s also a sitting area and library on the third floor.
Step Inside Sarah Jessica Parker’s Townhouse
But you’re really paying for location here, as it’s situated just one black from Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village at 20 E. 10th Street. This house might be an ideal option over another brownstone in New York’s West Village, which has drawn droves of Sex and the City fans— so much so that it made the news on March 19 when the owner of the home reprimanded a crowd of tourists, saying, “I try not to do this but sometimes people cross the line and I can’t. Thank you so much for understanding, have a great day. And remember, this is not empty, it’s a private home, and it’s not Carrie’s, it’s mine.”
Sarah Jessica Parker runs down the stoop of Carrie’s fictional brownstone in “And Just Like That.»
For a casual $29.9 million, you can live like Carrie—sans the crowds, hopefully. But with all the closet space.
Rachel Silva is the associate digital editor at ELLE DECOR, where she covers all things design, architecture, and lifestyle. She also oversees the publication’s feature article coverage, and is, at any moment, knee-deep in an investigation on everything from the best spa gifts to the best faux florals on the internet right now. She has more than 16 years of experience in editorial, working as a photo assignment editor at Time and acting as the president of Women in Media in NYC. She went to Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for awards from ASME, the Society of Publication Designers, and World Press Photo.
