FETE DE SWIFTY
Liz Smith’s Tent Party
Helps Advance New York

Text and Photos by Roger Webster

HE 4th annual Fete de Swifty, a creation by Liz Smith to raise money for the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, has been rated No.1 by Charity Navigator out of 5,000 nonprofit organizations evaluated across the country.

This year’s event in a tony tent on the Upper East Side raised more than $800,000.

The honorary chairs were Nicole Kidman and Ali and Joe Torre served as honorary chairs. Other chairs and committee members included John Castle, J. Christopher Daly, Bill Rondina, Christine and Stephen Schwarzman, Rob Speyer, Zibby and Andrew Right, David Patrick Columbia, Stephen Attoe and Robert Caravaggi (owners of The Fete's namesake restaurant), Gillian Miniter, Christopher Meigher, Peter Rogers and Elizabeth Finkle Sans.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Sarah, the duchess of York, Muffie Potter Aston, Eleanora and Michael Kennedy, Wendy Carduner, Joe and Hilary Califano, Cornelia Guest with William Ivey Long, Audrey Gruss, Jonathan and Somers Farkas, Emilia and Pepe Fanjul, Ana Soler, Justin Karr, Stephanie Krieger and Brian Stewart, Terry Allen Kramer, Tony Manning, Norma Dana, Alex Papachristidis, Charlotte Ford, Carl and Sabina Forsythe, Jamie Drake, sisters Toby Roosevelt and Nancy Baker, Bunny Williams and John Rosselli, Gail and Dennis Karr, Cynthia and Dan Lufkin, Central Park Conservancy's Terry Coppersmith and Diane Schoenthal, Ann Rapp, Christine Delisle, Carol Bell and 800 more just like them came out for the most popular society/charity gala annual block party in New York.