The New York Post has instituted a column by Jared Paul Stern called
"Nightcrawler." The column details where all the self-important people in
Manhattan just met each other.
The RHHDAS has "nightcrawler" from 1951.
"Confessions of a Nightcrawler," an article by columnist Earl Wilson
(also of the New York Post), was in ESQUIRE, February 1949, pg. 46.
I'll go to sleep now.