Ah New York. Where all the world is – indeed – a stage.
Don’t believe me? Well, it’s true and the reason I know that is because I was just out running an a very important errand (two thumbs up to TD Bank for their Penny Arcade machine – $58 in change, thank you very much) when I saw the On Location Tour bus toodling by. I’ve seen them in other parts of town before. After all, you can hardly move in NYC for all the tv shows and movies locales (both real and replicated). Parks and Buildings, interiors and exteriors, street and subway scenes from The Devil Wears Prada, The Interpreter, Gossip Girl, I am Legend, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Enchanted, When Harry Met Sally, Friends, Ghostbusters, Will & Grace, Men in Black, Sex & The City, Serendipity, Seinfeld, Ugly Betty, etc. etc…
Still, this latest encounter was a surprise. Why? Because I live on the Upper East Side which isn’t – by and large – as awash with pop culture locations as neighborhoods such as the Village or the West Side. Or wasn’t until recently. Thanks to Gossip Girl (*) – the UES is the place to be. To see and be seen.
And doesn’t On Location Tours know it. Their latest tour offering is the Gossip Girl Sites Tour and that – or the general tour – is what I must have seen. I’ve been meaning to go on one of their tours for ages now. I love going on tours of my home town. Literary and historical walking tours, haunted New York tours, the Circle Line (which never ever gets old) – years ago I went on a FANTASTIC “mob tour” of the city. I never see it mentioned anywhere anymore. Gosh – I hope nothing “happened” to those guys. But in all this time, I’ve never gone on a TV/Movie tour of the city. Which is sort of weird when you consider how much enjoyment I get out of playing “spot the spot” while WATCHING these programs and films.
What are your favorite tours of New York? What tours have you always wanted to go on? Have you been on a TV tour?
(*) which I confess I do not watch and wouldn’t recognize if I fell over it. But all sorts of people ask about it now – or do once they realize I live in the area. I suppose I shall have to catch up on the Gossip Girl details if I want to continue to blog knowledgably. Hmmm… Maybe the tour could be a business expense 
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