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Carrie Bradshaw's Guide to the Real New York City Carrie Bradshaw’s Guide to the Real New York City The Theater District cannot be missed for Bloomingdale’s and Lord & Taylor are the Broadway’s irresistible flashing lights and original department stores. Bloomie’s had cute little restaurants. Between 45th Street and its beginnings in 1872, moving to its current 54th Street, along Broadway flagship location in 1886, while Lord & Taylor has been around since 1826! What’s Shubert Theatre is well worth a visit while New York without shopping? Just don’t in the Theater District (I’ve been backstage!). forget to poke around vintage clothing Founded in 1913, it’s where Katharine shops too! 1000 Third Avenue, at 59th Street, Hepburn performed The Philadelphia Story and 424 Fifth Avenue, at 34th Street, respectively in 1939. Catch a show and be sure to strut down Shubert Alley, just like I did! Kleinfeld Bridal has been the authority on 225 West 44th Street, off Seventh Avenue wedding dresses since 1941. I had to travel to Brooklyn for Samantha’s appointment SoHo, an acronym for South of Houston there (though she never quite made it), but (pronounced HOW-stun) is a neighborhood the store has since moved to Manhattan. of cobblestone streets and chic galleries— 110 West 20th Street, at Sixth Avenue get ready for artistic exploration! Bordered by Houston Street, Canal Street, Lafayette Street, Strand Book Store, known by New Yorkers and West Broadway as “the Strand,” is a legendary secondhand bookstore where you can find any book for La Grenouille, the deliciously classic cheap (really, any book). Get your reading French restaurant, was the location of my fix here. 828 Broadway, at 12th Street first New York City date. 3 East 52nd Street, off Fifth Avenue The New York Public Library has loads of locations, but the one you have to visit is Benihana, the famous Japanese steakhouse, the main branch, famously guarded by two opened in New York City in 1964. I’ve stone lions. You can’t check out books here, imagined Viktor Greene’s mustache, Waldo, but you can be overwhelmed by the majesty going here. 47 West 56th Street, off Sixth Avenue of it all. Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street For more Carrie Diaries fun, visit www.harperteen.com/carriediaries .
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