Just checked Gothamist and learned that many of the locations in last week’s episode of Gossip Girl were filmed in Brooklyn Heights.
How ironic.
The Upper East Side school and the ivy league reception were filmed at Packer, which looks gorgeous. I’ve never visited. Ironic isn’t it that they’re using Brooklyn to portray the Upper East Side.
While last week was definitely Long Island City week
on Gossip Girl, this week’s version of the "exclusive" Upper East Side
dropped squarely in Brooklyn Heights. The opening scene, featuring some
sort of perverted choir singing Fergie’s "Glamorous," was shot on
location at Packer Collegiate Institute’s
3rd floor chapel. The gang revisited Packer later on at the contrived
‘Ivy’ reception, which went down in the school’s backyard garden. From
there, the gang didn’t have to travel too far for their
extracurriculars. The fantastic field hockey practice/Serena-Blair
catfight took place only a few blocks away from the school at the base
of the Brooklyn Bridge in Cadman Plaza
It’s ironic because the show portrays Brooklyn as the opposite of the Upper East Side in terms of money, influence and legacy power in the Ivy Leagues. So it’s ironic that they’re using Brooklyn locations to portray their upper-crusty Upper East Side schools and locations. Louise
i don’t understand. why is it ironic?