Times Square Gossip

**** THE HAMPTON'S SCENE Photos By: Patrick McMullan **** Jean Shafiroff Jean And Martin Shafiroff Susan Allen With Peter Stolt Nick Epley With Marianne Epley And Southampton Mayor Mark Epley Aviva Drescher Nicole Noonan With Consuelo Vanderbuilt Costin And Lucia Hwong Gordon Edward Callaghan With John Wegorzewski Jean Shafiroff With Jonathan McCann And Susan Allen Jean Shafiroff With Katlean de Monchy Joy Marks And John Wegorzewski NancyJane And Jeffrey Loewy Marcia Schaeffer With Will Kahn And Georgina Schaeffer Chele Chiavacci And Richard Farley Southampton was super hot this weekend. Jean Shafiroff and Southampton Animal Shelter Hosted a Wine tasting Kick-off Party for the July 19th Gala Honoring Georgina Bloomberg. Many Hampton notiables were there to help a great cause. About the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation The Southampton Animal Shelter was ...

**** THE GLORIOUS CORNER By: G.H. Harding **** Bill Clinton Swears In Bill DeBlasio HELLO MR. BILL --- I watched Bill DeBlasio’s mayoral inauguration in NYC and a few things caught my eye and ear: Apparently there was a DJ on hand; nightlife favorite M.O.S., whom played such favorites as “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk and “Good Times” from CHIC (both Nile Rodgers-project); actress Cynthia Nixon; activist Harry Belafonte; Bill and Hillary Clinton; a tense-looking Michael Bloomberg; David Dinkins; Andrew Cuomo (who was at Billy Joel’s Barclay Center concert New Year’s night); Broadway actress and singer Patina Miller, and sitting in the audience, Marty Markowitz. As I've said before, I have yet become a DeBlasio-devotee, but I whole-heatedly welcome him aboard. PICKS FOR 2014: Here we go with a selection of picks-to-click this year: Lorde: Already a smash for her hit "Royals," this New Zealand –native will be huge this year; even ...

**** THE LOSS OF A NEW YORK CITY ICON **** Ed Koch I am very saddened that former New York Mayor Ed Koch has died at age 88. Koch from 1978 to 1989, with his favorite trademark phrase "How'm I Doing?," was a bigger than life figure in the city. The former Mayor died of congestive heart failure at about 2 a.m. at New York Presbyterian hospital following a year of several hospitalizations, George Arzt, his spokesman, said. Koch was responsible with bringing New York City back from the ashes.  Under his term as Mayor, the city regained its financial footing and underwent a building renaissance. Other Mayors have been credited with the revitalization of Times Square, but it was Ed Koch who had the real vision and set everything in motion to bring the famed New York City Neighborhood to where it is today. Koch saw what Times Square could be and he set the plan that future Mayors used to make the city what it is today. In 2008, ...