Uptown World

My version of a Gossip Girl spinoff prequel series

Hey upper east siders, Gossip Girl here. Your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan's elite. This is the part where I usually answer your burning questions about S & B but today I thought I'd do something a little bit different. So turn on your walkmans and dust off your parents members only jackets as we take a trip down memory lane to the Upper East Side in the 1980s. Deeply concerned with the hedonistic party girl lifestyle their daughter Lily has immersed herself in since dropping out of college and moving to Los Angeles, Rick and Cece Rhodes have made a unilateral decision. Lily will move back to the UES to live with her mother in the hopes that her life will move back in a more positive direction. Lily moving back to the UES means run-ins with mean girl Anne Van Der Bilt and her minions as well as Lily's longtime crush dashing playboy William Van Der Woodsen. It also leads to reconnections with her closeted best friend Harold Waldorf and her black sheep older sister Carol who lives in Brooklyn. Speaking of Brooklyn, aspiring musician Rufus Humphrey is about to quit making music for good after his childhood friend and co-founder of their band Lincoln Hawk dies from AIDS. Meanwhile back in the UES, the ambitious Bass brothers move from Greenwich to UES ready to put their sibling rivalry aside and take the NY business world by storm. Who knew the UES was so drama filled and scandal ridden long before I came along? You know you love me xoxo GG.

Story added by tribemaster07 on August 4, 2025