The owner of Carrie Bradshaw’s “Sex and the City” apartment on posh Perry Street got permission to build a steel-and-cast-iron gate in front of her building, so unfathomably rowdy the tourists have become.

The owner of the brownstone has had enough. Among the city's many popular addresses is 66 Perry Street, the Gilded Age West Village brownstone that gained its own celebrity status when cast as the exterior setting for Carrie Bradshaw's apartment in Sex and the City.

New York city officials have approved adding a metal gate to deter fans of the hit HBO TV show "Sex and the City" from making around the clock trips to