In 2003, Kim Cattrall had been living in a tiny, low-ceilinged one bedroom on the Upper East Side, populated by mismatched furniture she’d been carting around for years. She’d spent most of her thirties and forties on location, living out of suitcases, or working 18-hour days on the set of Sex and the City. She was nearly fifty and had never had a mature apartment to call her own. “It’s not that I lived in dumps,” she says. “It just was never a priority.”
When the show ended, however, it conveniently became one. She fell in love with a Park Avenue building built in 1929 by Emery Roth, instantly smitten with the lobby’s long, mirrored walls, high ceilings, and marble floors. It was, she recalls, like “a mini-Versailles.” But the apartment itself—a spacious, if walled-in, two-bedroom—was trapped somewhere in the 70s.

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