She couldn’t help but wonder — when would all the tourists leave her alone?
The owner of the Manhattan brownstone where Carrie Bradshaw “lived” in “Sex in the City” wants the city to build a gate to block obnoxious fans — and said she only let the series use her building in the 1990s because she felt bad for a location scout afraid he’d lose his job if she said no.
The posh at 66 Perry St. in the West Village has drawn a never-ending stream of visitors over the last two decades, with tourists aggressively ignoring the “No Trespassing-Private Property” sign at the front of the steps, opting to climb over a chain for a social-media snap.
“My home is now a global tourist destination,” the owner said in an application to the city’s Landmark Preservation Committee. “The show is in endless reruns in 34 different languages, increasing an already massive fan base to my stoop from throughout the US and around the world.
“At any given hour of the day or night, there are groups of visitors in front of the house taking flash photos, engaging in loud chatter, posting on social media, making TikTok videos, or just celebrating the moment,” according to the application, which was first unearthed by the newsletter “Feed Me.”
The application asks for a 3.25-foot high double-gate made of steel and cast iron gate to be installed in front of the stoop to provide “something more substantial to “regain a reasonable quality of life for our tenants and ourselves,” the applicant argued.
The owner previously put up the no trespassing chain across the 6-foot wide base of the stoop, but many visitors ignored it to pose, dance or lie down on the steps, according to the application.
In some cases, they even attempt to open the main entrance door or drunkenly ring the doorbell, the owner claimed.
In the memo to the city, the owner blamed herself for allowing the exterior of her building to be included in the six-season television series in the late 1990s.
“I felt sorry for the young location scout who was a recent grad from NYU Film School,” the letter states. “He told me if he didn’t secure THIS house, he would lose his first real job in the business.
“At the time, no one knew the show would turn into anything long lasting … much less, the iconic fantasy vehicle and touchstone for NYC’s magic that it has become.”
A location scout who spoke with the owner at the time, Tyson Bidner, told The Post he doesn’t recall much of the conversation about the building. But he’s sure the fear of losing his gig was a “sentiment that I felt at the time.”
“In the sense that I always had this urgency of wanting to deliver and felt like this immense pressure of delivering these locations for the show,” said Bidner, who is now the executive producer of “The Bear” on FX.
“Whether it be true or not that I would lose my job – probably not now looking back – but I probably felt that pressure at the time if I couldn’t deliver.”
A Post reporter visited the famous site Monday night, but the apparent owner declined comment. A man came out and also didn’t want to talk, but nodded when asked about building the gate.
A boyfriend of a tenant told The Post said there are a lot of tourists that flock to the spot, but he hasn’t witnessed anything crazy.
One of the signs on the chain asks passersby to “please keep your voice down: respect your neighbors.”
Bidner, who graduated from NYU’s Stern Business School, said he feels “horrible” the show has caused such umbrage in the owner’s life.
“There are those iconic homes, ‘The Sopranos’ house and things like that, that sort of takes a life of its own and it becomes very difficult for the homeowner to live their normal lives,” he said. “Sometimes people just don’t understand that a real human lives there, this is not Universal Studio.”
Bidner wishes her “a lot of luck” with the Land Preservation Committee set to meet Tuesday.
He said hasn’t walked by the brownstone since working on the show, but “I might have to just to see it, it’s been awhile.”