Having created perhaps the most flavorsome portrait of Brooklyn since Spike Lee worked regularly in the borough -LRB- '' Half Nelson '' was shot in Gowanus , Fort Greene and East New York -RRB- , Mr. Fleck and Ms. Boden are moving on to another tale of drugs and high school , this time in moneyed Manhattan : they will adapt Ned Vizzini 's comic teenage depression novel , '' It 's Kind of a Funny Story , '' for Paramount .