It was Manhattan’s print journalism scene that served as matchmaker to the Paper magazine editor at large Mickey Boardman, the writer Lynn Yaeger and the columnist Michael Musto, who have been friends for over 25 years and dedicated New Yorkers for even longer. In the early ’90s, Yaeger, then the fashion editor at The Village Voice, assigned a story to Musto that never made it to press. “My article was so appalling she didn’t run it, but then we became friends, partly out of gossip and partly because we were on a lot of the same lists for parties,” says Musto. He met Boardman in 1994, after receiving an invite to Paper’s 10th-anniversary bash. “Michael and Bill Cunningham were, to me, the legendary documenters of downtown culture,” says Boardman, who was subsequently introduced to Yaeger by Lauren Ezersky, the host of the television series “Behind the Velvet Ropes,” after she spotted the two aboard a long-since-retired Fashion Week bus that carried attendees from show to show. That bus is a good metaphor for what their friendship became: “It was uptown, downtown, Midtown, everywhere,” says Musto.