Cowin is the editor-in-chief of Food & Wine, the magazine owned by American Express.

Socialite, Vogue darling and founder of Feyt, Eleanor Ylvisaker is yet another "It" girl flitting around Manhattan with social capital to burn.

Paterson is an elder statesman of Harlem politics, a former Deputy Mayor under Ed Koch, and a neighborhood power broker. As an attorney, he's represented many of the city's biggest unions, including TWU Local 100, SEIU 1199, and the Randi Weingarten-led United Federation of Teachers.

Doctorow is a celebrated bestselling author of American historical fiction, a professor at NYU, and a stalwart lefty.

The self-proclaimed "grandmother of performance art," Abramovic is known for her work exploring pain and endurance, which she idiotically and dangerously accomplishes by cutting herself during performances.

A former fashion designer, Mishaan is an interior designer and the owner of the furniture shop Homer. His wife is social fixture Marcia Mishaan.

A former publicist for Calvin Klein and PR director at Valentino, Peterson, who now runs Annelise Peterson Inc., is a fixture on the New York social scene.

The charmingly vulnerable actress Marisa Tomei made her mark-and earned an Oscar-as Joe Pesci's over-the-top Brooklyn girlfriend in My Cousin Vinny and has proved her enduring sexiness in movies like The Wrestler and Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Moss is an interior decorator to some of the city's richest denizens and the former proprietor of the haute décor boutique, the Charlotte Moss Townhouse.

A longtime public radio fixture, Lopate has hosted a talk show on WNYC daily since 1985. His brother is writer Phillip Lopate.

One of the Times' most influential voices, Collins became the first woman ever appointed editor of its editorial page in 2001. The author of several books, she now writes an op-ed column.

A former anchor on Court TV, Crier is the author of bestsellers The Case Against Lawyers and A Deadly Game: The Untold Story of the Scott Peterson Investigation.

The president and COO of Island Def Jam Music Group and one of LA Reid's former key deputies, Bartels is the man who brought you The Killers, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber and who breathed new life into the careers of Melissa Etheridge and nutty pop diva Mariah Carey.

The former president and CEO of OMD Worldwide, Uva was the chief executive at the Spanish-language media giant Univision until 2011.

Morgenson is a business columnist for the Times and the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer for her coverage of Wall Street scandals.

Ernesto Shaw, aka DJ Clue, is a Power 105 DJ and influential mixtape producer.

The co-founder of the Zagat Survey with his wife Nina, Tim has his last name stamped on the front of about a billion little burgundy books around the globe.

Rather spent 24 years anchoring the CBS Evening News before his unceremonious departure from the network in 2005. These days he anchor Dan Rather Reports on HDNet.

Cattrall achieved fame as the over-the-top vamp Samantha on Sex and the City.

The matron saint of hipsters, the East Village fixture is as well-known for her proudly avant-garde fashion sense as she is for her edgy film roles.