With less than a week before it ends, 2016 took yet another beloved celebrity from New Yorkers — actress Carrie Fisher, best known for playing Princess Leia in the "Star Wars" series.
Fisher died Tuesday morning aged 60. The Los Angeles resident had been rushed to UCLA Medical Center Friday after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London.
Born in Beverly Hills to screen legend Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, Carrie Fisher would hit most of her career milestones in Hollywood. But she did make a Broadway debut as a teenager in a production of the musical "Irene" starring her mother.
She was later cast in the musical "Censored Scenes from King Kong."
She may have made her last appearance on the New York stage in her one-woman, autobiographical show "Wishful Drinking," which opened at Studio 54 in the fall of 2009 and played through mid-January in 2010.
Fisher called the Big Apple home in the late 1970s and early 1980s while she was coupled with musician Paul Simon.
The two were wed in a traditional Jewish ceremony hosted in the groom's swanky duplex overlooking Central Park on August 16, 1983. Fisher was 26, Simon 41.
Present at the event were the bride's divorced parents, whose breakup in 1958 was the result of Eddie Fisher's affair with Elizabeth Taylor; Harper, Simon’s 10-year-old son from his first marriage; singer Art Garfunkel; actor Kevin Kline; "Saturday Night Live" producer Lorne Michaels; "Star Wars" creator George Lucas; and supermodel Christie Brinkley, then married to Billy Joel.
Fisher and Simon lived in his Upper West Side apartment until their divorce a year later. They continued to date on and off for almost a decade.
The photographs below, which we offer in tribute to the late Fisher, capture some of their moments together in New York City: