New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

The Fifth Avenue front of the New York Public Library's main branch, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, in August 2021. In the 2008 movie Carrie chooses this Beaux-Arts landmark for her wedding to Big, and it is where she waits in her Vivienne Westwood gown for a groom who never comes inside. The phone call in which he backs out was shot in Astor Hall, the marble lobby just behind those doors. The library is free to enter during opening hours, so you can climb the steps, walk through Astor Hall and stand where the wedding fell apart without needing a library card.