The son of Rabbi Arthur Schneier, Marc Schneier is the founding rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach and the New York Synagogue in Manhattan. He's also a co-founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

Louie Vega

Catell is the chairman and CEO of KeySpan Corporation, the fifth largest distributor of natural gas in the U.S., which services 1.1 million customers in New York City.

Marchetto is the resident cartoonist at Glamour and the author of the 2006 graphic novel Cancer Vixen. She's married to Silvano Marchetto, the owner of West Village Italian eatery Da Silvano.

New York public radio staple Brian Lehrer is the host of the WNYC current events call-in show, The Brian Lehrer Show.

Rudnitsky is the president and CEO of the Wyndham Hotel Group, which controls mid-range chains like Super 8, Ramada, and Howard Johnson.

An heir to the Loews fortune, Tom Tisch is managing partner of the private investment firm Four Partners and the chancellor of Brown, his alma mater. He's the brother of James Tisch, Andrew Tisch, and Dan Tisch; his first cousins include Jon Tisch and LA-based film producer Steve Tisch.

Jean-Marc Houmard

A neuroscientist and professor at Columbia, Richard Axel is an authority on the sense of smell and the recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the human olfactory system.

Tommie Sunshine

A fashion columnist for the Village Voice until late 2009, Yaeger is hard to miss at fashion shows around town thanks to her signature doll-like look.

Still shrill after all these years, the indefatigable Kramer is the author the 1978 book Faggots and the play The Normal Heart, and helped found the Gay Men's Health Crisis and ACT UP.

Ron Delsener

The son of Colombian-Jewish cloth magnate-turned-art collector Jose Mugrabi, "Tico" is the public face of the Warhol-collecting Mugrabi clan and a fixture on the contemporary art social scene.

Rupert Murdoch's numbers man, DeVoe is the chief financial officer of News Corp.

New York's 106th mayor—and first black mayor—Dinkins wrested the mayoralty from fellow Democrat Ed Koch in 1989, but lost his bid for reelection in 1993 to Rudy Giuliani following a gloomy term marked by the Crown Heights riots and out of-control crime.

Don Imus witnessed his career nearly implode when he made racist on-air comments in 2006, but the cadaver-faced shock jock has since returned to helm his nationally syndicated radio show Imus in the Morning.

Arden Wohl is the headband-obsessed, spotlight-hungry girl-about-town who describes herself as a filmmaker, dessert maven, and philanthropist these days. She's the daughter of real estate developer Larry Wohl and social fixture/Kabbalah enthusiast Denise Wohl.

The former chief of Time Warner Books, Kirshbaum left the house shortly before its sale to French conglomerate Lagardère and its rebranding as Grand Central Publishing. He currently heads up his own small literary agency, LJK Literary Management.

Steven Meisel is one of the world's most iconic (and controversial) fashion photographers, and one of the least likely to be photographed. The glossy haired man of mystery has spent decades behind the camera launching the careers of supermodels, make-up artists, and hair dressers alike.