Entertainment | Sex and the City Sex and the City Star Misses ... the City On eve of movie release, Parker recalls bygone Manhattan By Kate Rockwood Posted May 5, 2008 2:57 PM CDT Copied 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) 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.” Read These Next CBS News boss pulls 60 Minutes segment critical of Trump policy. Kansas City Chiefs moving across state line. Trump makes a new move on Greenland, and Denmark isn't happy. Camera records 'dirty eruption' at Yellowstone National Park. Report an error