“Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite” - Opening voiceover to the 2007 Pilot of Gossip Girl by the anonymous blogger and titular character Art by Chloe Ho Growing up watching The CW’s Gossip Girl from my 700-square-foot downtown East Village apartment was like watching a show in a different language, the uptown depicted was a different world. The characters–high-school heirs and heiresses of the Upper East Side– lived in my same borough...