Though Carrie famously lived in the Upper East Side in the show, the actual filming location for her Manhattan brownstone was ... adding a gate to the front of the stoop to stop people from ...

'Hitch' director says the movie's iconic brownstone scene was written on the fly — and shot on a celebrity's stoop ...

So, the brownstone's owner, Barbara, went in front of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for a proposed change. In a publicly available letter, she recounts how her stoop became ...