Arguably one of the most coveted (and charitable) nights of Halloween is none other than Bette Midler\u2019s New York Restoration Project (NYRP) annual Hulaween\u2014a spellbinding affair held in support of the city\u2019s green spaces.<\/p>\n
Last night marked NYRP\u2019s 30th year of keeping New York green. The nonprofit, founded by Midler, partners with communities to restore parks, revive gardens, plant trees, and grow a more vibrant New York for everyone. Fittingly, the theme matched the mission: \u201cHulaween: New York, New York, a Helluva Town!\u201d<\/p>\n
As one guest dressed as Eloise quipped, \u201cThere is no one definition of New York.\u201d The crowd proved her right\u2014there were subway stops, Chrysler buildings, pizza rats, and one partygoer who earned a costume award for embodying every New Yorker\u2019s quiet fear: death by falling A\/C unit.<\/p>\n
Midler herself leaned into her roots, arriving in denim overalls and glittering eye makeup as a playful nod to her showbiz sparkle and hands-on gardening spirit. Accepting the Catalyst Award, she joked, \u201cI\u2019m no longer a spring chicken, no longer a summer chicken, I\u2019m not even a fall chicken. I\u2019m an endangered chicken at this point!\u201d Echoing the mission that has guided NYRP since 1995, she told the crowd, \u201cClean, green, open space is a right, not a privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hosted by Busy Philipps, the evening sparkled with quintessential NY moments. Guests were treated to a surprise musical tribute from Billy Crystal alongside Marc Shaiman, Ben Platt\u2019s rendition of \u201cOn Broadway,\u201d and Andy Cohen (costumed as fellow Andy, Andy Warhol), honored with the Joan Kors Green Champion Award by designer Michael Kors in a taxi driver getup.<\/p>\n
As the festivities wound down, guests were gently reminded to move along or risk being booted from Casa Cipriani\u2019s storied halls. The City that Never Sleeps truly lived up to its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arguably one of the most coveted (and charitable) nights of Halloween is none other than Bette Midler\u2019s New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,11321,10201,5099,5101],"class_list":{"0":"post-98207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-parties","12":"tag-storytypenews-trending","13":"tag-textaboveleftsmall","14":"tag-web"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}