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Sex and the City Star Misses ... the City

On eve of movie release, Parker recalls bygone Manhattan

By Kate Rockwood,  Newser Staff

Posted May 5, 2008 2:57 PM CDT
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(Newser) – When Sarah Jessica Parker laments the old Manhattan that is slowly eroding—coffee shops and bodegas closing, Sex and the City bus tours parked outside Magnolia Bakery—her husband, Mathew Broderick, tells it to her straight: “That’s your fault!” New York magazine sits down with the star, who reminisces about the city of her youth.

“It was meant to be a Utopia,” she says of a childhood spent camping on Roosevelt Island, moving constantly, pursuing theater, and skirting the poverty line. “When I arrived in the city in 1976, New York was financially a wreck. But to me it’s the New York that Matthew and I literally try to find every day of our lives.”

From left, Sex And The City actors Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis arrive at the 2008 Point Foundation Benefit on Monday, April 7, 2008, in New York.
From left, Sex And The City actors Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis arrive at the 2008 Point Foundation Benefit on Monday, April 7, 2008, in New York.   (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)
Sarah Jessica Parker with her husband, Matthew Broderick, at the Cinema Society screening of Then She Found Me at AMC Lincoln Square, Monday, April 21, 2008 in New York.
Sarah Jessica Parker with her husband, Matthew Broderick, at the Cinema Society screening of "Then She Found Me" at AMC Lincoln Square, Monday, April 21, 2008 in New York.   (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker first arrived in New York City with her seven siblings in an overcrowded VW van.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker first arrived in New York City with her seven siblings in an overcrowded VW van.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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