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It’s an It Girl! The Birth of ‘Sex and the City’

FILE — Peter Kaplan, the editor of The New York Observer, at his office in New York, Sept. 8, 1997. Carrie Bradshaw’s creator, Candace Bushnell, was the "It Girl" of late-’90s New York. Bushnell got her start at the Observer, under Kaplan's leadership. (Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times)