Recreation

It was a night for swanning and practicing your French. The uber elegant French Heritage Society gala filled the Pierre ballroom with sylphs, swathed in couture.

Mention Park Avenue anywhere in the world and people recognize a hallmark of New York City. What you may not know: it's the Fund for Park Avenue (a non-profit organization) that manages and maintains the Park Avenue Malls, insuring they are alive with tulips in the spring, begonias in the summer, sculpture throughout the year, and lit fir...

"Vinnie has given a lifetime of service to his community which is why the Montauk Chamber selected him as Person of The Year for 2014," says Laraine Creegan, executive director of the chamber.

East End moms, grab a group of your girlfriends and get ready for a fun night out during the Children's Museum of the East End's (CMEE) Annual Fall Ladies Night.

Catch disco fever this weekend during New Beginnings Community Center 70s themed concert and benefit dinner at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead.

Marine Meadows is fighting the decrease of the underwater plant species through their eelgrass restoration work and as a result of Save Our Seagrass, 10,000 shoots of eelgrass will be planted in East End bays.

"Casita Maria started 80 years ago in the living room of the Sullivan sisters who were cousins of Ed Sullivan," Jacqueline Weld Drake told us at their Fiesta 2014 gala, at the Plaza Hotel.

The Westhampton Beach Country Club once again hosted the Independent Group Home Living (IGHL) annual Luncheon and Fashion Fling, now in its sixth year and one of the most popular of all IGHL fundraising events.

Swifty's — heir to the Mortimer's beau monde society Truman Capote immortalized — has so many regulars, that owners Stephen Attoe and Robert Caravaggi try to think of ways to amuse them.

I may have over simplified, describing The New York Women's Foundation as "Diana Taylor's charity," but there is no denying the impact her active chairmanship has made.