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Read Carrie Bradshaw once said, “Beauty is fleeting, but a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park is forever.” But that was way back in the second-ever episode of Sex and the City. It was a different time, a different show, and now I’m beginning to think, a different Carrie.
Carrie Bradshaw has always had one constant in her life: her grimey oasis on the second floor of a quintessential brownstone on the Upper East Side. Sure, it’s changed a little over the years, just as she has——in the first film, she attempted to de-grime it, hiring an interior decorator to give it an adult update. But it has never changed enough to become anyone else’’s——Aidan’s disastrous attempt to knock down one of the walls and take away one of her bathroom doors is proof enough of that. (Back then, Carrie was ““the one who loves her two bathroom doors””.)
By the beginning of And Just Like That, Carrie is living with Big in a new apartment——but, as we soon learn with relief, the brownstone studio studio is still there, waiting for her, just as it always had been: Carrie’’s room of her own, an extension of herself, in all of her messy, chaotic, fun-loving glory. It is, as Carrie promised us, ““forever””or at least it was.