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Martha Stewart

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Stewart is the founder of an eponymous media empire that includes magazines, TV shows, books, and serving spoons. And in case you were living under a rock in 2004, she also happens to be a convicted felon.

Frank Sciame

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Sciame is a construction-magnate-turned-developer best known for attempting to build Santiago Calatrava's radically-designed 80 South Street.

Julian Casablancas

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Lead singer of The Strokes, Casablancas is a privileged son of the fashion industry whose downtown slumming and cryptic brooding earned him brief billing as the Voice of a Generation.

Dan Tishman

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Real estate scion Dan Tishman runs the construction and development concern Tishman Construction.

Cyndi Lauper

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Chart-topping 80s icon Cyndi Lauper seems to have passed the apex of her career, but her karaoke-friendly catalog of hits – like Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – will forever be heard.

Fabrizio Moretti

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Moretti is the hottie drummer of NYC's privileged kids-cum-rock and roll outfit The Strokes. Amidst the other's brooding and boozing, Fab has always been painted as the "groups' soft spoken intellectual" and token nice guy.

Bill Rudin

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

The head of one of the oldest and richest real estate clans in New York, Bill Rudin is the chief executive of Rudin Management.

Paul Shaffer

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Shiny-pated Canadian Paul Shaffer is David Letterman's musical director and foil on the Late Show.

Pam Liebman

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

The successor to Barbara Corcoran, Pam Liebman is the CEO of Corcoran, the second-biggest real estate agency in New York.

Arthur Zeckendorf

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Along with his brother William, Arthur Zeckendorf is a co-owner of real estate firms Terra Holdings and Zeckendorf Realty. These days the brothers are best known as the developers of super-luxe 15 Central Park West.

Peter Dinklage

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

The star of indie film The Station Agent and HBO's nerd-fest Game of Thrones, 4'5" Peter Dinklage is the most famous achondroplastic dwarf in America.

Adam Moss

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Moss is the editor-in-chief of the award-winning New York magazine.

Jeff Blau

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Blau is president of The Related Companies, one of the largest real estate development companies in New York.

Stephen Sondheim

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Sondheim is the legendary composer and lyricist behind such Broadway staples as West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods.

Stan O’Neal

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Stan O'Neal is the former chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch. He was ousted from the top job in November 2007 and replaced by John Thain.

Douglas Durst

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

The son of New York real estate royalty, Doug Durst is the developer behind 4 Times Square and the Bank of America tower. He's also the brother of a serial killer.

Burton Resnick

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

Burt Resnick heads up Jack Resnick & Sons, an 80-year-old real estate firm that owns and manages a collection of high-end commercial and residential properties in the city.

George C. Wolfe

cityfile · 02/03/08 09:37PM

An accomplished playwright and former head of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Public Theater, Wolfe is best known for directing plays of major cultural import like Tony Kushner's Angels in America.