Owner of Sex in the City character Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment has stern message for tourists in video

The owner of the home heavily featured in Sex and the City has been filmed hitting out at a swarm of tourists taking photos on the stairs.

Alongside iconic New York landmarks such as the Empire State Building and Central Park sits a stairwell leading to the doors of an apartment that any Sex and the City fan will recognise.

Carrie Bradshaw’s abode in the wildly popular early 2000s series is something of a legend — and even though the original series came to an end more than a decade ago — thousands of tourists still visit those famous front doors each and every day.

Carrie Bradshaw's front door is a popular spot to visit in New York for Sex and the City fans.

Carrie’s front door building is pretty easy to miss within the concrete jungle of Manhattan – but fans of the series know all to well what it looks like, and thanks to thousands of social media posts — exactly where to find it.

Despite Carrie living in the Upper East Side on the show, the actual brownstone townhouse is located in the West Village.

But after swarms of tourists have been filmed and photographed standing outside ‘Carrie’s apartment’ for years — the actual owner of the residence said visitors are getting carried away — and often trespass onto their private property.

Earlier this year, the official owner of 66 Perry Street in the West Village applied for a gate to be installed to stop diehard viewers from lurking in and around the front steps of the home.

“My home is now a global tourist destination,” owner Barbera Lorber wrote in a background statement, requesting approval to build a steel and cast iron gate to keep intruders away.

“At any 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.”

People have been visiting Carrie Bradshaw's 'apartment' for decades.

Swarms of tourists visit the home each year.

She said some had gone so far as to scribe their name on her door, or even ring the doorbell late at night.

“After 20-plus years of hoping the fascination with my stoop would die away and fans would find a new object for their devotion, I have acknowledged we need something more substantial,” she explained.

“In order to regain a reasonable quality of life for our tenants and ourselves: we need to install a proper gate.”

And while the gate was approved (but not yet installed) it hasn’t stopped tourists from gathering outside the home night and day.

In a new video which has received more than 3 million views on social media, a man from within the apartment’s front doors has been filmed giving tourists a stern warning about visiting the home.

“I try not to do this, but sometimes people cross a line” he said from the top of the stairs while a group of visitors linger below.

People have been visiting Carrie Bradshaw's 'apartment' for decades, and the owner has had enough.

Some people have been caught jumping the chain to the stairwell.

“Have a great visit but remember this is not an empty home. It’s a private home … it’s not Carrie’s … it’s mine.”

Viewers of the video were quick to support his warning, with some saying he could’ve been far more aggressive in his approach.

Others, however, claim to have been at the receiving end while visiting the famous home previously.

“He went mad at a lady and a few others while I was there,” one claimed.

“My dermatologist is directly across the street from his house, and it doesn’t matter the day or time or weather — there’s always people there. He’s a lot more patient than I would ever be,” another wrote.

“Shame on him … get over it … He got what he signed up for,” another added.

Sex and the City first aired in 1998 before concluding in 2004. A spin-off series, And Just like that, kicked off in 2001 — starring three of the four original characters, Carrie (Sarah Jessica-Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis).