Best known for her role in the 1980s classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High, these days Cates runs a boutique on the Upper East Side. Her husband is actor Kevin Kline.

The former star chef Rocco DiSpirito doesn't have a kitchen to cook in these days, but Rocco fans need not despair: The fame-hungry chef will probably turn up somewhere any moment now.

Burroughs is best known as the author of dark-comedy childhood memoir
Running with Scissors, which was made into a 2006 film with Alec Baldwin and Gwyneth Paltrow.

Tartt is the vaguely reclusive author of The Secret History and The Little Friend.

Granger has been the editor-in-chief of Esquire, the men's magazine published by Hearst, since 1997.

Formerly the head of the DUMBO-based indie publishing house Soft Skull Books, Nash stepped down from the company in 2009.

See that novel on the front table of Barnes & Noble? Hensley put it there–she's the chain's lead fiction buyer and one of the most powerful figures in publishing.

Lo is the chef and co-owner of the critically lauded New American restaurant Annisa in the West Village. She's also one-time owner of Rickshaw, the gourmet dumpling chain.

Mirabelle Marden

One of the city's elite event planners, Bailey is known for planning some of the ritziest weddings in New York and beyond.

Until May 2008, Fuller was the editorial director at David Pecker's publishing conglomerate AMI, where she looked after tabloids like Star and the National Enquirer. She is now the editor of Hollywood Life.

Strossen is the former president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and the first woman to hold the position.

Gale Brewer is a member of the New York City Council. She represents the heart of the thoroughly liberal Upper West Side, from 55th to 96th Streets.

Peters is head of the midsized luxury real estate agency Warburg Realty.

Frances Beinecke is president of the National Resources Defense Council, the nation's most vocal environmental action organization.

Nicolas De Torrente

Minskoff is a developer with a taste for high-end commercial buildings and suspenders.

Futterman's name is in the window of virtually every empty storefront in the city. His company, Robert K. Futterman & Associates, is the largest independent retail agency in New York.

A leading broker at Corcoran, Baum is one of the brokerage's top co-op saleswomen.

The woman New York parents should thank when they take their tykes to look at the dinosaurs, Ellen Futter is president of the American Museum of Natural History.