Who is popular today?

Actress Meryl Streep. Banker David Rockefeller. Painter Robert Rauschenberg. Waiter Mark Bermudez can rattle off dozens of celebrities he served during 26 years working at legendary Brooklyn restaurant Gage & Tollner. “Jack Nicholson came in with Mike Nichols because they were filming ‘Heartburn’ in Prospect Park,” recalled Bermudez, a 65-year-old Bushwick resident who has done...