Gossip Girl and Friends made me want to move to NYC — I visited to see if the city still lives up to the hype of millennial TV shows
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Having spent her teenage years watching the likes of Sex and the City and The Devil Wears Prada, Queenie Shaikh imagined a New York of rent-controlled apartments, cupcakes at Magnolia Bakery, breakfast on the steps of the MET and rendezvous at the top of the Empire State Building – but does that Manhattan seen-on-screen still exist?