Friends fans gather outside New York apartment to honor Matthew Perry NBC, ajay_suresh\/FlickrMatthew Perry fans flocked to Manhattan\u2019s West Village Sunday to pay tribute to the \u201cFriends\u201d actor, one day after he reportedly drowned at his Los Angeles home. The death of actor Matthew Perry shocked the entire world as it was announced on Saturday, October 28. Friends and fans of the actor quickly took to social media to mourn the sitcom star. But for some, this wasn\u2019t enough. Dozens of fans gathered outside the \u201cFriends\u201d apartment building in Manhattan\u2019s West Village to pay their tributes to the actor most known for his portrayal as Chandler Bing on the show. Matthew, 54, and his famous \u201cFriends\u201d co-stars immortalized the apartment building at 90 Bedford Street in New York City, which the characters on the classic \u201990s sitcom called home. Tearful mourners left bouquets of colorful flowers on the wet sidewalk outside the Friends apartment facade on Sunday, October 29. Despite never filming at the location, the Bedford Street building served as the exterior shot in the TV show Friends and soon became an iconic tourist hotspot. TikTok videos show Friends fans mourn Matthew Perry outside iconic apartment Videos have been posted to TikTok of the impromptu gathering, which included people going to the famous apartment building in Manhattan\u2019s West Village to look up at the familiar building and mourn Matthew\u2019s death. One of the many people who posted to TikTok about going to the Friends apartment was Emma Romano. She filmed herself dropping off a bouquet of flowers outside the building, and she wasn\u2019t the only one who\u2019d had the same idea. She went on to film dozens of people outside the building before going closer to the memorial area, which included flowers, candles, and heartfelt messages to the actor. One message on a lamp post read: \u201cThe one where we all lost a friend. \u201cCould saying goodbye BE any more difficult,\u201d referencing one of Chandler\u2019s iconic phrases from the show. Another sign read: \u201cWe are so sorry no one was there for you. You are so loved and will be missed for generations. Thank you for being our friend.\u201d Friends, which followed the lives of six friends in their 20s living in New York, was a smash hit across the globe when it aired between 1994 and 2004, and re-runs still remain hugely popular almost 30 years after its premiere. Matthew was found dead on Saturday, October 28, in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home. As of Monday (30 October), the actor\u2019s cause of death remains unclear amid \u201cinconclusive\u201d post-mortem results, with further investigations underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Friends fans gather outside New York apartment to honor Matthew Perry NBC, ajay_suresh\/FlickrMatthew Perry fans flocked to Manhattan\u2019s West Village Sunday to pay tribute to the \u201cFriends\u201d actor, one day after he reportedly drowned at his Los Angeles home. The death of actor Matthew Perry shocked the entire world as it was announced on Saturday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}