This year marks the 25th anniversary of the premiere of Friends, a popular television series that, according to BuzzFeed, really sucks. There's lots of promotional stuff happening to celebrate the anniversary, including an immersive pop-up that's coming to SoHo this week (running through October 6th). But if you were hoping you'd be able to plop down on a replica of the unmistakable Central Perk couch on a sidewalk in the West Village, well we have some bad news for you.

Warner Bros. Television hoped to put a replica couch on a sidewalk near 90 Bedford Street, a.k.a. the apartment building exterior used in the show, so fans "can sit on the couch and take a picture with the building in the background" as part of the anniversary celebration. But the Post reports that Community Board 2 nixed the stunt, which was supposed to start on September 21st.

“That block [at the corner of Bedford and Grove] already gets too many tourists and it’s not capable of containing large crowds,” Joe Gallagher, a Greenwich Village resident and Community Board 2 member, told The Post.

Multiple locals expressed reservations about the marketing stunt at an August 12th Community Board 2 meeting. Although Warner Bros. had filed an application with the city’s Street Activity Permit office for a full sidewalk closure of Bedford between Barrow and Grove streets, no one from the company apparently attended the meeting to smooth things over with the community. As a result, a resolution to deny the event permit was unanimously ­adopted at that meeting.

“The fact that they didn’t show up to the community board meeting is disrespectful to the neighborhood,” said Joey Campanaro, owner of The Little Owl restaurant that is located at the address. (The Post adds that Campanaro reached out to Warner Bros. and "offered use of the interior of my restaurant" for the couch.)

"We have at least 400 tourists a day coming to look at that building," Bedford Street resident Rezar Skoda also told the Post. "They take pictures all day and all night. I come outside and there’s 20 people hanging out on my stoop or taking a pee around the corner. To close off the street or a section of the sidewalk would make it crazy.” Wait, back up a second: Friends fans are publicly urinating all over the place?! Is that some sort of an homage to the episode with the jellyfish?

We've reached out to CB2 for comment about the couch, and also whether Ross and Rachel were or were not on a break.

Note: the dream of a sidewalk couch is not totally dead, as the CB2 decision could be overruled and the application could still be approved by the Street Activity Permit office. But if that doesn't come to pass, fans will have to accept that the only way they'll be able to sit on the replica of the couch this month is if they go to the Friends Pop-Up Experience in SoHo (which is allegedly "sold out"), or if they head to the Empire State Building, or the Tribeca Television Festival, or to select AT&T stores in the city, or to one of the other 13 locations where the fake couch will be housed around the country, or in select locations around the world, like Australia.