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Gossip Girl Walking Tour
New York

From the Met steps to Chuck's Empire, trace the scandals, power plays, and penthouse parties of the Upper East Side's most talked-about residents.

8 stops · 3.9 miles

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Every Stop Has a Story

The Met Steps

These granite steps serve as Blair Waldorf's unofficial throne room, where she holds court with her minions during lunch breaks from Constance Billard nearly every season, and because the Met is such a popular attraction, filming often had to start as early as 5am to capture the cast alone on the steps.

Blair Waldorf's Penthouse

This pre-war building's limestone facade serves as the exterior of the Waldorf residence, embodying the "Old Money" elegance Blair strives to maintain, though the show's interior scenes were actually filmed on a soundstage and won't match anything inside its forty-three real apartments.

The Archibald Townhouse

This Neo-Federal mansion, built in 1899, plays the Archibald family townhouse whose fortunes rise and fall onscreen, and its real history has its own scandal: owner Francis Lynne Stetson caused an uproar in 1917 when, just three months after his wife's death, he adopted his twenty-three-year-old secretary as his daughter and heir.

Constance Billard / St. Jude's

The fictional Constance Billard school occupies the Otto Kahn Mansion, an Italian Renaissance palace completed in 1918 and one of the largest private homes ever built in New York, which today houses the real all-girls Sacred Heart school that once educated Caroline Kennedy.

The Bass/Van der Woodsen Hotel

Known on the show as "the New York Palace," this hotel served as Serena and Chuck's primary residence in seasons one and two, built around the historic Villard Houses, six 1884 brownstone townhouses designed by McKim, Mead & White in a U-shape resembling a 15th-century Italian palazzo.

The Van der Woodsen Penthouse

The Milan Condominium's sleek modern lobby served as the Van der Woodsen family's home in seasons three through six, though the glamorous duplex penthouse itself, complete with its iconic "Prada Marfa" sign, was actually built as a set at Silvercup Studios.

Chuck's "Empire"

Chuck Bass buys this hotel in later seasons to assert his independence, and the real Empire Hotel, built in 1923 and famous for the red neon sign that has crowned the Upper West Side skyline for a century, now leans into the connection with a "Gossip Girl Experience" and themed cocktails.

The Van der Woodsen Wedding Site

Lily and Bart's extravagant Season 1 wedding, a merger of two of the city's most powerful families, took place in the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom, a National Historic Landmark dripping in gold-leaf detailing and massive crystal chandeliers since the hotel opened in 1907.

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