The River Café is identified in the diary as the Brooklyn venue for Steven Greenberg’s New Year’s Eve party. The gathering offers a formal setting for a night that soon moves on: the party was black tie, while the diarist arrived in a worn scarf, an understated contrast that places the account’s attention on the company and the evening’s changing mood rather than ceremony.

The New Year’s Eve Party

Tama arrived in a separate car and reported that Steven Greenberg and Elizabeth Ray had just had a fight. Later, the diarist asked Steven whether he and Elizabeth had fought yet; Steven laughed and answered that they had not. The exchange turns the reported disagreement into a teasing social beat, without explaining its cause or what followed between them.

Departure and the Bridge

The group left the River Café at 11:55. The ride over the Brooklyn Bridge, with fireworks underway and Paige urging the driver to honk louder while she whistled, became the night’s most enjoyable part. The party’s significance in the account rests partly on this contrast: the café is the formal gathering point, but the liveliest moment comes just after leaving it, in motion across the bridge. From there the group continued to Scott Asen’s house and later to Nell’s, making the River Café one stop in a late, itinerant New Year’s Eve.