A day in the life of Keeva Leddy, a 16-year-old in Manhattan, has a lot of moving parts.
First, she puts on her school uniform — a polo and a light blue pleated skirt — before boarding the bus near her home on the Upper East Side to her private high school. She stops at Blank Street Coffee for an iced latte with oat milk before heading to a morning full of classes. For lunch, she and her friends pop over to Butterfield Market, which she calls “the Erewhon of New York City,” for some sushi, before returning for afternoon classes. After school, she goes home — in an Uber or the subway — to relax, or heads to SoHo to browse the selections at Brandy Melville and Garage.
Ms. Leddy, who recently started her junior year, shares days like this and more on her TikTok account, KeevaGRWM, which she started earlier this year as part of the “get ready with me” trend. She’s one of a handful of Manhattan teens who have found an audience on the app in recent months by posting videos showing what it’s like to grow up in New York City.
Ms. Leddy’s 41,000 followers — many of whom are fellow teens from other parts of the country — eagerly tune in, hoping to gain insight into the rarefied world of Manhattan’s elite teens.
“I get a lot of comments saying, ‘This is my dream life,’” Ms. Leddy said in a recent interview. “And other people are saying, ‘This is the life that I want to give my kids.’ And I think that’s so beautiful, because I was just sharing my life, and my mom has worked really hard to give me this kind of lifestyle.”
Trip Gorman, a 16-year-old student at the Loyola School, said he decided to start his TikTok account when he noticed there were not any boys his age posting “day in the life” videos. Despite some initial fears about how his content would be perceived, he has built an audience of 22,000 followers since he started his account in April. His most recent video, chronicling his first day of senior year, has more than three million views.
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