Calhoun is the chairman and CEO of Nielsen Company, the company formerly known as VNU.

Fowle runs FXFowle, a leading architecture and interior design firm.

Piscuskas is a principal of the architecture firm 1100 Architect, a medium-sized studio that designs homes for the exceedingly rich.

News veteran Marcia Kramer covers the local political beat for WCBS. She may be best known for getting Bill Clinton to admit he once smoked pot, but "never inhaled." She's married to her third husband, Marc Kalech, the former managing editor of the New York Post.

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An object of both hatred and jealousy to New York media watchers, Kuczynski writes about all things shallow, like plastic surgery and high-end shopping, for the New York Times.

Zanker is the founder of The Learning Annex, the "educational institute" that offers everything from classes on how to make a porn film to lectures by Donald Trump.

Elliot "Lee" Sander is the former executive director and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. He was appointed to the job by Eliot Spitzer in late 2006. He stepped down in May 2009 under pressure from Governor Paterson.

Formerly the chief food critic for the New York Times, Reichl was the editor-in-chief of Gourmet until the magazine's closure in 2009.

Bill Fischer is the travel agent and concierge to some of the city's most rich and powerful figures.

Lauder is the billionaire heir to the cosmetics company his mother Estée founded, as well as a major patron of the arts. Lauder is currently the chairman emeritus of Estée Lauder; he was the CEO until 1999.

As Mayor Bloomberg's former head of social services, Linda Gibbs was responsible for the city's homeless shelters, foster care program, and the corrections department. She's since been appointed the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services, so please, thank her for the soda ban.

The chairman of the venerable law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, H. Rodgin Cohen is a leading expert on banking law.

Murray Richman—otherwise known as "Don't Worry Murray"—is a Bronx-based defense attorney known for representing high-profile rappers like Jay-Z, DMX, and Ja Rule.

The square-jawed co-host of Fox News' The Five, Guilfoyle is the former wife of both San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsome and furniture heir Eric Villency.

One of the city's most prominent defense attorneys, Hayes is the guy many important New Yorkers call when they find themselves in handcuffs at four o'clock in the morning.

Pat Lynch is head of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, the union that represents the city's police officers.

The stiff-jawed, thoroughly plasticized legal expert hosts On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on the Fox News Channel, and is also a heavy-hitting member of the Church of Scientology and a pal of Sarah Palin's. That's three strikes, Greta.

The "Elvis Presley of M&A," Marty Lipton is one of New York's most famed corporate attorneys and a founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

A former deputy mayor and lieutenant of Rudy Giuliani, Mastro now defends white-collar criminals as a trial attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.