A longtime newspaper columnist and editor, Hamill is the only person who can claim to have been editor-in-chief of both the Daily News and the New York Post. A memoirist and novelist, his notable books of the last decade include 2004's Downtown: My Manhattan and 1997's A Drinking Life, an account of his struggle with alcoholism.
Jarecki is the founder of Moviefone and the director responsible for the award-winning doc Capturing the Friedmans.
One of the food world's most prominent figures, alternately thought of as a tells-it-like-it-is iconoclast or a bombastic douchebag, Jersey native Bourdain attended Vassar before dropping out and washing ashore at the Culinary Institute of America. The '80s weren't very productive years for Bourdain: he eventually sobered up and went on to run the kitchens of a handful of mid-range Manhattan restaurants in the '90s.
Cho is the foxy co-anchor of local WABC evening newscast Eyewitness News.
Judith Shapiro is the outgoing, former president of Barnard College.
As the former president of ABC News, Westin oversaw all of the news that emanates from the house of Mickey Mouse from 1997 to 2010. These days, he's the president and CEO of NewsRight.
The Canadian import is the sardonic morning anchor of the cable news network NY1.
The head of Columbia University's Earth Institute, founder of the non-profit group Millennium Promise, and friend of Angelina and Bono, Sachs may very well be the only economist you've ever heard of.
Charles is the chef and owner of Pearl Oyster Bar, the venue famous for its legendary lobster roll. Charles's other claim to fame? Bringing the smackdown on her competitors.
Ivan Seidenberg is the former CEO and current Chairman of telecom giant Verizon.
A billionaire heir to the Estée Lauder cosmetics fortune, Ron Lauder has dabbled in business, politics, diplomacy, philanthropy and art over the past four decades.
A no-nonsense negotiator and a canny politician, Randi Weingarten is the former president of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents 74,000 teachers in New York City and 20,000 other school employees, but she's since been elected president of the UFT's national parent union, the American Federation of Teachers.
Pop musician Wainwright's carefully crafted songs and good looks have made him something of a gay icon.
Chantecaille is a social fixture and, along with her mother, the owner of a cosmetics company that bears the family name.
The most famous celebrity photographer in America, Leibovitz shoots portraits of Hollywood stars for magazines like Vanity Fair and big companies like Disney and American Express.
The CEO of Forbes Inc. and the editor-in-chief of Forbes, Steve is the bug-eyed publisher of the money magazine that bears his family name and a two-time unsuccessful presidential candidate.
