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Marc Schneier

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

Louie Vega

Robert Catell

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Marisa Acocella Marchetto

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Brian Lehrer

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

Steven Rudnitsky

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

Thomas Tisch

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Richard Axel

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Lynn Yaeger

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Larry Kramer

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Alberto Mugrabi

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

David Dinkins

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.

Larry Kirshbaum

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

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.