We rightfully respect and protect the NYPD. Attention must be paid to our FDNY.
After De Niro’s apartment suffered a devastating fire, Grace Hightower De Niro said: “Seventy firefighters saved our son, but the catastrophic destruction nearly took down the building. We had to move out.”
Somers (Mrs. Jonathan) Farkas: “My family’s Virginia farm burned down. The barn, cattle and horses were saved, but our home went to the ground. It was so traumatic, I never forgot it.”
With Commissioner Daniel Nigro, they’ve begun a Ladies for the New York Fire Department. They’re raising $225,000. Checks are tax-deductible. Come 9/11 is the PBS doc “Treasures of New York: New York’s Bravest” in honor of the FDNY’s 150 years of service.
Robert De Niro: “Every minute firemen, who do not care if you’re poor or rich, risk themselves. They don’t run from danger — they run toward it.”
Whispers point at party tricks
A major DC player: “Bernie Socialist is no part of the Dem establishment. They’re freaking. Watch. They’ll punch hard against him. His ego’s out of control. He already has a movement and now wants a revolution.
He wasn’t a Democrat, but an Independent, until recently. On a third- party campaign, he’ll have no loyalty to Hillary.
“The GOP is similarly not thrilled. Donald’s not the old boys network so their hair is also on fire. They know if he goes third-party and gets crowned, they’ll all be out on their assets.
“Thus, if four people run — nobody grabs the 270 electoral votes. It then goes to the House of Representatives and they pick somebody. Likely someone reasonable who’s neither far left or far right.”
Per this Big Mouth: “So it would be up to them to pick somebody else.”
She’s old news
Monica Lewinsky. Surely you remember the name. Surely you remember the game. Surely you remember the fame. Well, a young generation seems not to know her from borscht. Lunchtime. Jean-Georges’ 1 CPW restaurant. Not a head turned as she loped in. No waiter dropped a filet of sole. Nobody selfied. Nobody cared.
Odds & ends
Valentines’s Day’s coming. Be it known Liz Hurley once gave a pair of red satin panties to a stunned — albeit grateful — fan . . .
But there’s Martha Stewart, who says: “I was married 30 years. Enough. I’ve had my share of dirty underwear on the floor” . . .
While I’m on drawers, Kevin Bacon to InStyle: “I wear shorts to bed in case I have to get up in the middle of the night and save the world.”
Please try to pay attention
TV mumbles: Nice that NY1 reporter Michael Herzenberg shaved off that grubby dirty-looking beard. Congratulations . . .
Odd that MSNBC, doing a whole treatise on Donald, spotlighted two friends to praise him. Limousine service owner William Fugazy and real estate owner Samuel Lefrak. Both long dead.
Uber schmuber. One East Sider had the driver pull over before reaching her stop. She says: “Annoyed, he slammed on the brakes. He was creepy, too personal. Too talky. Asked too many questions and wouldn’t shut up. He made me uncomfortable. I didn’t feel safe.”
Story 2: Another Manhattan lady wanted to go to JFK. The driver did not know how to get there.
Yesterday — 55 balmy degrees and snow over the sidewalk.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.