Taylor Swift may never walk Cornelia Street again, but that’s not stopping fans from visiting her old apartment after reports that she and Joe Alywn have called it quits.
“Cornelia Street,” the ninth song off Taylor Swift’s seventh studio album, “Lover,” alludes to an apartment the star once lived in in New York City’s West Village, as well as the early days of her relationship with whom many believe to be actor Joe Alwyn.
“‘I rent a place on Cornelia Street,’ I say casually in the car,” Swift sings in the first verse, and it’s pretty literal. The pop superstar did rent 23 Cornelia Street for a few months between 2016 and 2017, according to People.
In “Cornelia Street,” Swift sings about the early days of a relationship — which many fans believe to be about Joe Alwyn — and being unable to walk the titular street ever again if the romance were to end.
The two dated for six years since “at least fall of 2016,” Insider previously reported, but recent reports say the couple may have called it quits.
According to news first reported by Entertainment Tonight and later confirmed by People, the split “was not dramatic.”
“The relationship had just run its course. It’s why [Alwyn] hasn’t been spotted at any shows,” the source told ET.
Swift explained the song’s meaning during an August 23 appearance on Elvis Duran’s radio show, according to People.
“It’s about the things that took place and the memories that took place on that street […] all the nostalgia,” she said. “Sometimes we bond our memories to the places that they happen. I wrote it alone and it ended up being one of my favorite songs.”
Despite the fact that Swift hasn’t lived in the apartment for quite some time, some Taylor Swift fans have filmed TikTok videos of themselves visiting the apartment and leaving flowers in what appears to be a makeshift “memorial” to Swift and Alwyn’s relationship.
Keep reading for a closer look at Swift’s iconic Cornelia Street apartment.
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