A former publisher at Random House, Godoff runs the Penguin Press imprint at Penguin.

Hidalgo is one of the city's top plastic surgeons and the former chief of the plastic surgery department at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He's married to real estate queen Mary Ann Tighe.

Thomas Krens

Wheeldon is about as close to a rock star as it gets in the world of ballet.

Sonny Mehta

The founder of the jewelry company that bears his name, David Yurman is best known for his twisted cable design, which he introduced nearly two decades ago.

Eugenia Kim

Fashion designer-slash-social fixture Charlotte Ronson is the daughter of socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and the sibling of DJs/social scenesters, Mark and Samantha Ronson.

Chuck Prince is the former CEO of Citigroup. He was forced into retirement in November 2007.

Ganzi is the former CEO of Hearst Corporation, the media conglomerate that owns three dozen newspapers, two dozen television channels, 200 magazines, and a collection of websites. He stepped down in June 2008 after a dispute with the company's board. He was replaced temporarily by his predecessor, Frank Bennack.

A perennial social fixture in New York and Palm Beach, these days zaftig Gubelmann owns a line of home products, Vie Luxe.

Murray Moss is the tastemaker behind the legendary SoHo design and housewares store Moss.

The most famous cosmetic dermatologist in New York, Pat Wexler is the doctor who smoothes out the creases in the city's most expensive faces.

A leading mergers and acquisitions attorney, Beattie is chairman of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, and the firm's senior statesman.

Former creative director of Tod's, Derek Lam is a fashion designer with an eponymous clothing line, and a bevvy of Hollywood beauties including Sarah Jessica Parker and Katie Holmes sporting his creations.

With Richard Born, Ira Drukier is the founder of BD Hotels, the company that owns boutique hotels like the Mercer, Chambers, and Maritime and also developed the Richard Meier-designed glass towers on Perry Street.

Legendary director Sidney Lumet has more than 50 films to his name, including Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Network. He passed away in 2011.

The go-to guy for New York's biggest developers, Kondylis is the exceedingly prolific architect responsible for some of New York's tallest—and, some argue, dullest—buildings.

The executive producer of Sex and the City, King helped channel the neuroses of single women everywhere into a mega-hit for HBO.

With Richie Rich, ex-cowboy Traver Rains co-founded trash-chic fashion label Heatherette.