![]() But the many patrons, celebrated or anonymous, who thought fondly of it as a home away from home remember it as if it were yesterday. Mortimer’s, New York City’s muchloved restaurant on Manhattan’s Upper East Side-a favorite watering hole for socialites, achievers and the hundreds of lesser-known diners who sought its unpretentious ambience-closed in 1998, following the death of its founder and sometimes controversial host, Glenn Bernbaum. ON ANY GIVEN DAY one might see, at lunch or dinner, Jacqueline Onassis or Bobby Short, Placido Domingo or Oscar de la Renta, Lord Snowden or Greta Gar-bo. He travels widely in the United States to venues where his readers and subjects celebrate, but his home base is Manhattan, in New York City. In his NYSD, he combines society pages with personal reflection resulting in a unique celebratory chronicle of galas, opening nights, and other society events and their attendees. Foreword writer David Patrick Columbia is the founder, mastermind, and continuous editor since its inception in the year 2000 of the society chronicle, NY Social Diary, a news sheet for and about the upper crust. He and his wife, chef and business owner Blaine Merritt Caravaggi, currently reside in the Hudson Valley and Palm Beach. He is the source of this significant archive which he has donated for the creation of this book as consulting editor and con-tributor. Mortimer’s maitre d’hotel and host Robert Caravaggi, who later opened and co- owned Swifty’s restaurant on the upper east side and currently Swifty’s Pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, was left a legacy of Mortimer’s photographs and memorabilia from Glenn Bernbaum. She was a regular at Mortimer’s and contributed most of the photographs in this book. Her work has been seen in Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Town and Country, Avenue, Quest and many other publications. ![]() In the tradition of celebrated New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham, Mary Hilliard has been documenting society and fashion in New York City and Europe for the past 35 years. ![]()
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