The Central
Park Conservancy hosted its 11th Annual
Halloween Ball, featuring cocktails, dinner, dancing
and a festive costume contest, under a beautiful
white tent in Central Park's Rumsey Playfield on
October 25. Guests including David Byrne, Diane
Neal of "Law and & Order: Special
Victims Unit," Food Network personality Sandra
Lee, artist Hunt Slonem, Rory
Tahari, Richard and Marcia
Mishaan, Bob and Veronique Pittman,
gallerist Maya Stendhal, Simone
Levinson, Food Network personality Sandra
Lee, Monica Gerard-Sharp,
and Daniel and Nancy Paduano mingled
with co-chairs Suzanne and Robert
Cochran, Fiona and Eric
Rudin and junior co-chairs Susan
Shin and Coralie Charriol Paul.
Photographer Patrick McMullan,
artist Ross Bleckner and stylist Phillip
Bloch judged the evening's festive costume
contest, which was emceed by WABC's new head weather
anchor Lee Goldberg. The Ball
raised more than $950,000 for the ongoing care
and preservation of Central Park.
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