Is the upper east side of manhattan really like what gossip girl (the show) depicts?

Question

i was just wondering if what happens in gossip girl. actually happens in the upper east side.

Answer 1

If it does, I want to live there!

Answer 2

Well. What its like in the OC is exactlly what its like in newport. I would know I live there lol. And since I go to the upper east side a lot for vacations and to go shopping and stuff I would say yes. Crazy huh? not much. Answer my question!!!

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Answer 3

why dont you visit there and find out

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Answer 4

Wow, stupid shows like Gossip Girl really get to me, especially when they give non-New Yorkers crazy perceptions about the city.  

NO, despite what the CW propaganda's you into believing, the Upper East Side is NOTHING like Gossip Girl.

Though many Upper East-side teens do attend private schools, many of them are not even in NY! If you have any knowledge about the fancy prep schools scattered through-out New England (ie. Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts) , you'd realize that a majority of the students are from NYC. On the weekends, they can take a 2-4 hour train ride to NY. Their parents usually own a house in Connecticut or Rhode Island as well.  

BTW, with the rampant gentrification of NYC, if you live on the Lower-West Side (assuming you own the apartment), you're automatically a millionaire.

So when you're on a trip from 'Anywhere USA' to NYC, please don't take the bus up to 5th ave. and 69th st. and assume every teen standing on the sidewalk parties on rooftops with celebrities and cheats on their boyfriend with their parent's hot spanish chauffeur. (But wouldn't that be something? Oh, wait, that's why it's a show)  

Answer 5

I'm sure it is. Upper East Side, Manhattan is probably the most upscale place in NYC though. Apartments are unbelievable there and only people with multi-millions of dollars ca afford to live there. Mostly bankers and people who work on Wall Street who don't want to be close to Midtown and Lower Manhattan would be my guess.