A Parting Glass for the Ritz-Carlton’s Norman Bukofzer

May 22, 2023 New Yorker cover
May 22, 2023

Sendoff Dept.
A Parting Glass for the Ritz-Carlton’s Norman Bukofzer
by Zach Helfand

One of the late, great barman’s best customers, Liam Neeson, presided from a “fecking” sickbed upstairs as drinkers toasted the guy who’d served Jodie Foster, Ralph Fiennes, Bono, Joe Torre, and Bette Davis.

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