Before 'Sex And The City,' There Was 'The Stroll'

In her deeply personal documentary, filmmaker Kristen Lovell traces the importance of NYC’s Meatpacking District for the trans community —

“It was like 10 or 11 [at night] and I saw a woman in a gold jacket in one of those director’s chairs on the street,” Lovell recalls to W. Filming in the area wasn’t uncommon, so she stuck around to watch. “Then I realized it was Kim Cattrall, and I remembered her from Mannequin.” The action Lovell was playing witness to was the now infamous scene from Sex and the City, where Samantha finds her sleep—and her orgasms—interrupted by a group of working girls. Watching this outsider’s take on her life repulsed Lovell. But in the wake of the show airing, as fans flocked to the area and its environs, patronizing Pastis and Magnolia Bakery for their slice of the “Sex and the City experience,” she watched the dynamic play out again on a larger, more permanent scale as sex workers were forced to vacate the neighborhood.

“It’s like that phrase, life imitates art,” Lovell says. “[In the show,] she throws the water on the girls and the police come and push them out of the area. That’s what happened in real life. I knew the area was changing when I saw the first Christian Louboutin store.”

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