The Times' personal technology columnist, Pogue is a demigod to gadget geeks everywhere and the closest thing the Gray Lady has to an internet celebrity.

Gross has made a name for himself chronicling the sordid lives of New York's glam and ultra-rich. He's the author of books like 740 Park, Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, and the unauthorized Ralph Lauren biography Genuine Authentic.

The man whom George Soros, Howard Stern, and Greg Norman have hired to protect their assets during messy divorces, Zabel is an all-star trust and estate attorney at Schulte Roth & Zabel, the firm he founded with Stephen Schulte and Paul Roth.

Ritter delivers the grim, the banal, and the inane as the anchor of WABC's 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts along with Liz Cho.

Howard Stern's longtime sidekick, Quivers is the woman whose mere presence allows the shock jock to get away with his never-ending parade of offensive comments about women and black people.

Berman is the former weekday sportscaster at WNBC, where he recited the Knicks and Yankees scores alongside Sue Simmons and Chuck Scarborough. However, he may be best known for his "Spanning the World," segments on the Today Show.

Huff monitors the slush and sunshine as the weekday meteorologist for WNBC.

Stahl has spent the last two decades on 60 Minutes, logging some quality time with Scott Pelley, Morley Safer, Steve Kroft, and the late Mike Wallace and Andy Rooney.

The daughter of restaurateurs—her family operates the Midtown eatery Fresco by Scotto—proud Italian-American Scotto co-anchors WNYW's Good Day New York with Dave Price.

Well-preserved local news icon Tong animatedly delivers regional headlines on WPIX's 10 p.m. newscast.

The executive director of the Greenwich Village Historical Preservation Society, Berman throws a fit every time a developer tries to build something new or tear down something old in the Village.

A former Bronx Borough President, Freddy ran losing campaigns for mayor in 2001 (Mark Green beat him in the Democratic primary) and 2005 (Michael Bloomberg handily defeated him in the general election). He remains a powerful figure in the politics of the Bronx and the city's Latino community.

A City Councilman who represents parts of east-central Queens—and a constant Bloomberg critic—Weprin will be running for comptroller in 2009 against Melinda Katz and David Yassky.

Fossella represented Staten Island, as well as a band of south Brooklyn including Bensonhurst, Gravesend, and Bay Ridge, as New York City's only Republican congressman from 1997 until 2009.

Currently an executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners LLC, Schwartz is famously known as the last CEO of Bear Stearns before its acquisition by JPMorgan Chase in 2008—a sharp fall that would prove catalyst to the 2008 Wall Street risk management meltdown and corresponding global financial crisis.

Blodget is the former Wall Street analyst and tech-stock cheerleader who was banned from the securities industry for life in 2003 as part of a settlement with the SEC in connection with misleading research. He's since reinvented himself as a financial journalist/new media enterpreneur: He runs Business Insider, a collection of blogs co-founded with Kevin Ryan that encompasses Silicon Alley Insider, a tech industry news/gossip site, and Clusterstock, which covers Wall Street.

DeMille writes the kind of potboiler mystery novels that make great beach reading for middle-aged men.

DeLillo is the author of a slew of critically-lauded, densely-written novels about American life including White Noise, Underworld, and 9/11-inspired Falling Man.

An epically prolific and moving novelist, a creative writing professor at Princeton, and mentor to many (past protégés including Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Greenberg, and Jonathan Ames), and a constant New Yorker contributor, Oates is a literary legend whose fiction and non-fiction revel in the bleak and the violent.

Cred-heavy lit agent Aragi represents a roster of fresh-faced literary talents including Jonathan Safran Foer, Junot Diaz, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat.