The chairman and chief executive of the The Riese Organization, which was founded by his father and uncle, Dennis Riese oversees more restaurants in New York than anyone else: The company's 110 properties include branches of Roy Rogers, Houlihan's, and TGI Friday's. His company also controls the Times Square boob carnival Hawaiian Tropic Zone.

Fashion icon Norma Kamali earned fame in the '70s for her sleeping bag coat, and introduced parachute pants and high-heeled sneakers to fashion slaves in the '80s. The designer has faded from prominence over the past decade or so, but continues to preside over her eponymous, New York-based company.

Although he's retreated from the spotlight in recent years, the diminutive folk singer remains as New York as Woody Allen (Simon appeared in Annie Hall) and Central Park (the site of his most famous concert).

Tananbaum is CEO and chief investment officer of GoldenTree Asset Management, a hedge fund with $7.9 billion under management, which he co-founded with Leon Wagner in 2000.

Shockey is the former bad-boy tight end for the New York Giants who spends as much time gracing the sports section as the gossip pages. He was traded to the New Orleans Saints in 2008 and the Carolina Panthers in 2011.

The founder of the radio station chain SFX Broadcasting and the concert promotion giant SFX Entertainment, Robert Sillerman sold both companies for billions. The media mogul now operates CKx, which controls the American Idol franchise and Graceland, among other media properties.

The blonde, ruddy-cheeked Mol is a face you'd recognize on the street without necessarily knowing why: She's been in over 30 films, but never really cracked the A-list.

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One of the most prominent business journalists in town, Serwer is the managing editor of Fortune and a regular on CNN's American Morning.

Suzyn Waldman is a Yankees radio commentator and occasional TV correspondent. She's one of the first woman to hold a full-time position as a Major League Baseball play-by-play broadcaster.

Feinstein is a singer and pianist known for interpreting old standards by the likes of George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin.

Veteran newsman Chip McGrath is former editor of the New York Times Book Review and currently a writer-at-large at the paper. His son is New Yorker staff writer Ben McGrath; his daughter is Riverhead editor Sarah McGrath, who hit the headlines recently as fake memoirist Margaret B. Jones' editor.

The executive editor of The New York Times, Abramson is the first woman to hold the role in the paper's 160-year history.

With Dottie Herman, Howard Lorber is the co-owner and chairman of Prudential Douglas Elliman, the largest residential real estate agency in New York. He's also the chairman of the hot dog conglomerate Nathan's Famous, and the CEO of the Vector Group, the tobacco company founded by Bennett LeBow.

Morrison has managed to ride the designer jeans trend twice, first as the co-founder of Paper Denim & Cloth, and now as the man behind the trendy line Earnest Sewn.

The Italian-American born actor best known as Christopher on HBO's mob-drama, The Sopranos.

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