Current and former police commissioners Bill Bratton, Ray Kelly and even Bernie Kerik were all on hand at separate tables for the long-awaited return of the Loews Regency’s power breakfast after a 54-week absence and a $100 million renovation of the Park Avenue hotel.
While the sleek room has been rearranged, returning regulars including the Rev. Al Sharpton were seated by major-domo Leigh Wynn in approximately the same spots they previously held down.
“By the fourth window,” explained Bratton of the spot he and wife Rikki Klieman occupied, where the power couple first met in the 1990s.
Also on hand: Scott Stringer, David Dinkins, Joe Lhota, Alan Patricof and many members of the Regency’s reigning Tisch clan.
One legal eagle was overheard joking to Loews’ co-chairman Jonathan Tisch, “You took 54 weeks to redo the hotel and four years to redo your apartment?”
We asked Sharpton, who sat with Spike Lee, about the morning’s Oscar nominations, and he quipped, “ ‘12 Years a Slave.’ We were holding our breath! I can call off the protest.”