"Welcome to New York City"s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live and go to school and play and sleep - sometimes with each other. We"re smart, we"ve inherited classic good looks, and we know how to party. It"s a luxe life, but someone"s got to live it." The Gossip Girl series is the ultimate in glamour and cool - set in New York"s glamorous Upper East Side the narrative follows the thrills and spills ( with Jimmy Choo shoes and shopping at Barneys mixed in along the way) of its richest and most beautiful teenage residents.