Orlando Pita

One of the city's most prominent defense attorneys, Shargel has represented a string of Gottis—Gambino family boss John J. Gotti, his son John A. Gotti, and even the rap mogul who goes by the name Chris Gotti.

Notar is the managing partner of Nobu restaurants.

Equal parts aristocrat and technocrat, Burden is both an heiress and the head of New York City's planning commission.

Dick Morris is the prostitute-patronizing former advisor to Bill Clinton who is now a political strategist, author, and talking head for Fox News. He's best known for his verbal assaults on Hillary Clinton and liberal blowhards like Michael Moore.

Famous for merging rock, industrial and classical instrumentation, the contemporary composer is the co-founder of experimental musical group Bang on a Can.

Gene Russianoff

Fishman is the president of SEIU local 32BJ—the "doorman's union," which represents 85,000 doormen, supers, security guards, and window cleaners.

Roger Toussaint

Marty Markowitz

Pellegrino is owner of Rao's, the East Harlem Italian eatery that is virtually impossible to get into. He's something of an actor, too.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's former press secretary, Skyler is now the deputy mayor for operations. He's the youngest deputy mayor in the city's history.

Scoppetta was New York City's fire commissioner from 2002-2010. He was responsible for more than 16,000 firefighters, emergency medical personnel and civilians on staff at the FDNY.

A renowned choreographer, Twyla Tharp is known for taking a wrecking ball to the wall between modern dance and ballet.

A career New York City bureaucrat, Benepe was Commissioner of the Department of Parks and Recreation until he stepped down in 2012 to join a national conservation group.

Lamb is the "suave, super-dapper, pocket-square-sporting, Hog-ridin' gastropreneur" behind a small collection of trendy—and tiny—East Village eateries.

Lomonaco is the chef-owner of Porter House at the Time Warner Center, which is where to go when you want to spend a lot of money on meat in a mall.

A founding partner of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Herb Wachtell is one the top corporate lawyers in the country.

As commissioner of the NYPD, Kelly oversees the largest urban police department in the world with close to 40,000 officers in the five boroughs under his command.

Coscia is chairman of the board of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which makes him responsible for everything from the safety of the region's bridges, tunnels and ports, to making sure your EZ Pass works, to overseeing the redevelopment of the World Trade Center site. He works closely with Anthony Shorris, the PA's executive director.