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Bruce Springsteen appears yearly at Stand Up for Heroes, the annual fund-raiser for our wounded vets. After his gig, he hung behind the scenes waiting until Madison Square Garden Theater emptied.

Springsteen then went out front for a meaningful unseen moment. To shake the hand of young Derek Herrera, who’d come onstage demonstrating the $70,000 Israeli-made ReWalk exoskeleton, a new mechanism that helps wheelchair-bound veterans walk.

Caroline Hirsch of Carolines Comedy Club and Andrew Fox produce the benefit, which this year raised more than $6 million.

Tiffany’s windows sparkling

Santa Claus is coming. Tom Turkey is coming. Tiffany’s windows already came. Tiffany’s genie Richard Moore: “We pitch six concepts to management, then work on mock-ups 10 days in our studio. The all-night installation begins 7 p.m., sometimes lasting two days behind covered windows.

“It’s a whole year cycle. We’re already onto 2015. An in-house team of 20 right here starts with blank paper. Our windows in 300 cities are the same, except they get them later.

“This year took vintage ideas — whimsical, nostalgic — from the ’50s/’60s. Like a three-dimensional taxi we had to remake 1 ¹/₂ inches longer. All built here with local vendors, artists, lighting designers, work benches, fixtures, printers, florists, diamond cutters, real equipment.

“There’s occasionally a display disaster. Something falls apart last-minute. Two years ago, our Gatsby windows’ Champagne bottle fell, cascading Champagne. The displayed jewelry’s 100 percent real. Wearing gloves, we climbed in, cleared it all and cleaned the diamond chandelier earrings.

“There’s security all night long. And people buy from the windows. Saturday a lady wanted its engagement ring. No two are the same. Being the only one that size, color and clarity, Tiffany had to substitute.”

So anyone in dire need of a solitaire, those windows are up until Jan. 5.

Odds & Ends

Knicks game. Behinds of Kevin Bacon, baseball’s Fred Wilpon, lawyer Ben Brafman, p.r. guy Ronn Torossian, Spike Lee sat on the court in $3,400 seats. Eliot Spitzer, who just inherited a half-inch of millions, sat near Newark . . .

Meanwhile, Pierce Brosnan, Harry Connick, Victor Garber helped raise $1 mil at the Pierre’s benefit for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund . . .

A-Rod Scoop

The morning line on A-Rod: Yes, he rejoins the team. No, he can not play well anymore. Maybe, he gets hurt or develops an injury. For sure, events will put him out of baseball again — and our hair — soon and forever.

Gabor Update

Years back in another galaxy, my husband worked for years with Zsa Zsa Gabor. They headlined Vegas six weeks at a time. At her height, that blond hair was a cloud. She was breathtaking. Living with the family, I wrote a bio of mama Jolie. For that reason, I am repeatedly asked how is Zsa Zsa.

She’s in her Bel Air house. Bedridden. On a feeding tube. Her only child visits an hour each week and brings yellow roses, her mother’s favorite flower. Daughter Francesca, always called affectionately The Brat, identifies herself that way. Hearing it, her nonconversational mom responds.

Every morning, Brooklyn’s Atlantic and Hoyt corner bodega man makes reader Vito Giallo’s buttered roll and coffee. Suddenly, the guy’s gone. The owner: “He got a job playing piano for a radio station.”

Only in New York, kids, only in New York.