Despite the exodus to Europe last week – art lovers headed to Basel and Venice, while the royalty-obsessed made their curtsies in London – the social whirl of New York operated at full speed.

Computer geeks and moguls were the center of attention at New York University Medical Center’s gala Monday night. The event honored the chairman and chief executive of Loral Space & Communications, Bernard Schwartz, who is a trustee of the medical center. The 500 guests attending also learned about the medical center’s new 10,000-square-foot Center for Biomedical Imaging, at 660 First Ave., directed by Joseph Helpern.

There were no geeks in sight Tuesday night at Eric Villency’s party for the designer Holly Dunlap – only the bubbly, lithe, and naturally popular women that geeks dream of.

The purpose of the gathering, held at Mr. Villency’s flagship furniture store, Maurice Villency, was to unveil Ms. Dunlap’s 2005 cruise collection for her label Hollywould.

Several guests wore dresses in the collection, including Hope Atherton, Lily Atherton, Cristina Greeven Cuomo, Genevieve Jones, Gillian Hearst Shaw, Coralie Charriol Paul, Lily Raffi, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, who left the next morning to start filming “Stranger Than Fiction” in Chicago.

Resort collections can sometimes be frivolous, but not Ms. Dunlap’s. She has produced glamour that is also low-maintenance. The fabrics – silk jersey, cotton plisse, and a Swiss dotted cotton – travel easily. And the colors – seashell pink, aqua blue, and lots of black and white – are flattering to a wide range of complexions.

“I wanted it to be crisp while still having an oceanic, underwater, kind of dreamy feel,” Ms. Dunlap said.

The collection, called Lune de Miel, or honeymoon, will be available at the Hollywould boutiques in Nolita and Palm Beach and also at Saks Fifth Avenue.

What follows after the honeymoon? Babies and more babies. And, as Jessica Seinfeld found, soon thereafter the house is filled with booties, cribs, and strollers that could be used by mothers less fortunate. So Ms. Seinfeld founded Baby Buggy, which has collected and redistributed more than 260,000 items of infant gear and clothing. The name was the idea of her husband, Jerry Seinfeld.

Ms. Seinfeld and lots of other mothers came out, also on Tuesday, for a Baby Buggy fund-raising event at Barneys New York. Guests included Muffie Potter Aston, Marisa Noel Brown, Beth Buccini, Adelina Wong Ettelson, Heather Mnuchin, and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.

Also on Tuesday, the New York Restoration Project held a gala in two community gardens in Harlem.

The gardens are on East 114th Street, across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park and around the corner from the famed Rao’s restaurant.

The Family Garden was designed by Tiffany & Co.’s John Loring, who gave the space a Colonial-era feel with bluestone flagstones, a traditional arbor, and brick planters. Perhaps the most eye-catching element is a wrought-iron gate with chinoiserie-style fretwork – not to mention the bust of Jefferson.

The Rodale Pleasant Park Community Garden, designed by Billy Cohen,is full of garden beds maintained by mothers in the neighborhood, with guidance from Hannah and the Little Sisters of the Assumption. The garden yields between 1,800 and 2,000 pounds of produce annually, which goes to food banks and soup kitchens.

The chairmen of the event were the president of the Tiffany & Company Foundation, Fernanda Kellogg, and the founders of Rodale Incorporated, Ardath and Maria Rodale.

Bette Midler founded the New York Restoration Project 10 years ago to restore and revitalize underserved parks in New York City. A highlight of the night was Glenn Close’s reading from Ms. Midler’s favorite poem, “The Gladness of June,” by the British gardener Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932).

There are gardeners, and then there are the gamblers, who came out Wednesday for the fifth annual Viva Glam Casino, benefiting Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS.

Few people focused on cards. The models walking around Gotham Hall were too distracting. They included the host of the event, Maggie Rizer, and Jacquetta Wheeler and Petra Nemcova, who posed for the paparazzi with the president of MAC Cosmetics, John Demsey.

Actually, losing at the tables wasn’t so bad. All “misplaced bets” were donated to Diffa, which finances programs for those affected by HIV and AIDS as well as education programs.

Last night, Givenchy launched a new perfume with a party at Stanton Social, while Billabong gathered surfers, skateboarders, and snowboarders to launch its new store in Times Square.

And judging from the invitations on my desk, the weekend offers no respite. Stay tuned … and check out The New York Sun’s Web site (www.nysun.com), under “Photo Gallery,” to see and order photographs from the column.