M.M. Cloutier
Special to the Daily News
Coinciding with the Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood on Sunday, The Breakers is rolling out the red carpet for an Oscar celebration with pandemic protocols.
Three of the resort-hotel’s restaurants its onsite HMF and Seafood Bar and its offsite Echo on Sunrise Avenue will feature Oscar-themed cocktails and show the 8 p.m. Academy Awards ceremony on television.
Oscar doings at The Breakers come as Café L’Europe is skipping the restaurant’s annual Oscar party this year, with plans to resume the fun next season.
Because Café L’Europe’s Oscar celebration a 22-year tradition, complete with human-sized Oscar statuettes typically involves a crowded indoor party, “it just doesn’t make sense” during a pandemic, owner Jennifer Marcello said.
Nicholas Mele
Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Jeffrey Tousey, the thirtysomething founder of social media agency Beekman Social, and his partner, developer Billy Gilbane III, looked out the windows of their country home among the Finger Lakes in upstate New York and saw snow coming down. It was May.
The couple knew they didn’t want to spend another winter or even a spring up north. Having both taken their work fully remote, they sought a warmer clime, but somewhere in the same time zone and with direct flights to New York. They decided to house-hunt in Palm Beach.
“We’d scroll through Zillow every night, and there wasn’t a lot of inventory,” Tousey recalls. They settled on a 1950s bungalow in Palm Beach that they’re now renovating while they rent from a family friend nearby. “We basically beat the rush by a week.”