As a long-time New York resident and actor, Chris Noth loves the city. But he has one major issue.
“I think we shouldn’t give over to what I call greedy, unscrupulous builders,” Noth said at a recent press event for the “Sex and the City” movie, in which he reprises his role of Mr. Big.
Noth wants people to pay more attention to neighborhoods’ characters and historic icons, mentioning his support of a movement to keep the 13th Street Repertory Theater alive and his distaste for many of the gigantic new structures going up around the city.
“It wouldn’t hurt the mayor to realize that they made a lot of money building these buildings and they might want to keep an eye on what the character and essence of this town is. It’s neighborhoods. Its smaller businesses and smaller buildings,” Noth said. “I don’t necessarily think a glass tower that’s 40 stories high [is representing that]. We’re not Dubai. Were New York.”
What does he really miss? Stoops and coffee shops — traditional meeting places.
Guess there’s still the movie theater, albeit most likely an AMC or Regal.
— Julie Gordon