Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, both as half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. In 2006, "Time" magazine called him one of the "100 people who shape our world". He currently resides in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Carole King (born February 9, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. She was most active as a singer during the first half of the 1970s, though she was a successful songwriter for considerably longer both before and after this period. King has won four Grammy Awards and has been inducted into both the Songwriter's Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her songwriting, along with long-time partner Gerry Goffin.

Barbara Bach (born August 27 1947) is an American model and actress, known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me". She is the wife of former Beatle Ringo Starr.

Michael Savage is the pseudonym of Dr. Michael Alan Weiner, Ph.D. (born March 31, 1942). Savage is a controversial independent American conservative talk radio host, author and popular political commentator and as of February 5th a possible candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination for President. He holds masters degrees in medical botany and medical anthropology, and earned a PhD from the University of California, …

Alan G. Hevesi (born January 31, 1940, in Queens, New York) is the former Comptroller of the State of New York. A Democrat, he also served as Comptroller of the City of New York from 1994 to 2002, and as a New York State Assemblyman from 1968 to 1993. Hevesi was first elected State Comptroller in 2002 and won re-election in 2006. He was not sworn in for his second term, as he resigned from office effective December 22, 2006, …

Joseph Crowley (born March 16, 1962) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of New York, currently representing New York's 7th congressional district(see map) in the United States House of Representatives. He is a member of the New Democrat Coalition. The district encompasses portions of Queens and the Bronx. It includes neighborhoods such as Woodside, Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst and College Point in Queens as well as the neighborhoods of Castle Hill, Co-op City, …

Andrew Goodman (November 23, 1943 - June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist who was murdered by gunshot in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Andrew Goodman was born and raised on the Upper West Side of New York City, the middle of three sons of Robert and Carolyn Goodman, in a family and community steeped in intellectual and socially-progressive activism.

Jerome Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy award-winning American comedian, actor, and writer. Seinfeld is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running sitcom "Seinfeld", which he co-created, helped write, and executive produced.

Ron Jeremy (born Ron Jeremy Hyatt on March 12, 1953) is an American pornographic actor currently residing in Long Island, New York. Nicknamed "The Hedgehog" for his "spherical hirsuteness", he was ranked by "AVN Magazine" at #1 in their "100 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list. Jeremy has also made appearances in non-pornographic films with studios such as Troma Entertainment.

Richard Kline (born Richard Klein on April 29 1944 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for playing the sleazy neighbor and used car salesman, Larry Dallas, on the hit '70s-'80s sitcom, "Three's Company".

Jeffrey David Klein (born in the Bronx, New York on July 10, 1960) is a New York State Senator representing parts of Bronx County and Westchester County. He was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2004 after being advised to run for the seat by Democratic colleagues, who promised him campaign support and volunteers. A lifelong resident of the northeast Bronx, he was educated in Bronx public schools. Klein received a B.A. with honors from Queens College, …

Dr. Robert Arthur Moog (May 23, 1934 - August 21, 2005) was a pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Raymond Romano is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated, American actor and comedian best known for his starring role on the sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond.” His other notable roles include Manfred "Manny" the Mammoth (“"Ice Age", "Ice Age: The Meltdown", "Ice Age: A New Beginning"”) and Handy Harrison ("Welcome to Mooseport").

Norman Roberts is a men's college basketball coach and the current head coach at St. John's University, New York. He succeeded Mike Jarvis, who was fired midway through the 2003-04 season.

Dr. Stanley Milgram was a social psychologist at Yale University, Harvard University and the City University of New York. While at Harvard, he conducted the small-world experiment (the source of the six degrees of separation concept), and while at Yale, he conducted the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority. He also introduced the concept of familiar strangers. Although considered one of the most important psychologists of the 20th century, …

Jonathan K. Favreau (born on October 19, 1966) is an American actor and director.

Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is presently serving his twelfth term in the United States House of Representatives. Ackerman represents the Fifth Congressional District of New York, encompassing the North Shore of Long Island, including West and Northeast Queens and Northern Nassau County (map). It includes areas like Corona, Flushing, Jamaica Estates, Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, and Little Neck in Queens, as well as Great Neck, Sands Point, …

Dorothy Rabinowitz is an American conservative journalist and commentator. She was born in New York City, and was educated at Queens College and New York University. Ms. Rabinowitz was awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles published in 2000 covering aspects of U.S. social and cultural trends. Previously, she had been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times.

Marvin Hamlisch (born June 2, 1944) is an American composer

James Vacca is a Member of the New York City Council representing the 13th Council District, which includes the neighborhoods of Throggs Neck, Pelham Bay, Country Club, City Island, Westchester Square & Zerega, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, and Allerton in The Bronx. A long-time community leader, Vacca served as District Manager of Community Board #10 for 26 years before being elected to the City Council in 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Donna Orender is a sports executive and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She is the current president of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She grew up in Long Island, New York and was a five-sport athlete in high school, lettering in basketball, field hockey, volleyball, softball, and tennis.

Marvin E. Frankel (1921 - March 5, 2002) was a litigator, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, professor at Columbia Law School, and legal scholar whose views helped to establish sentencing guidelines for the federal courts.

Dr. Stephanie Pace Marshall is an educator and the founding president of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy. She is also the founding president of the NCSSSMST. She is internationally recognized as a pioneer and innovative leader, teacher, speaker and writer on issues of leadership, learning and schooling, gifted and talented education, mathematics and science education, and the design of generative and life-affirming learning organizations.

Arnold Skemer, born 1946, is an American novelist and publisher. He was born in the Bronx on the Grand Concourse, moved to Queens in 1957, and graduated from Queens College in 1968.

Joy Behar (christened Josephina Victoria Occhiuto) was born on October 07, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York. She is an Italian-American comedian, writer, actress and co-host of the talk show "The View". Behar was married to Joe Behar in January 1965 and divorced him in 1981; they had one daughter, Eve. Behar holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology from Queens College, …

Nellie Yvonne McKay (born 1930 died January 22, 2006) was an American academic and author who was the Evjue-Bascom Professor of American and African-American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also taught in English and women's studies, and is best known as the co-editor (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) of the "Norton Anthology of African-American Literature".

Lloyd Schwartz is an American poet who is Frederick S. Troy Professor of English at The University of Massachusetts Boston, Classical Music Editor of The Boston Phoenix, and a regular commentator for NPR's Fresh Air. Lloyd Schwartz was born on November 29, 1941 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York in 1962 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1976.

Dov Hikind is an American politician in the state of New York. He is a Democratic New York State Assemblyman. Hikind is an Orthodox Jew representing Brooklyn's Assembly district 48 which has many Orthodox Jews living in it. He has held this position since 1982 and has been very vocal about racial profiling, terrorism, and Antisemitism in his district, which includes Borough Park. Hikind hosts a weekly talk radio show every Saturday night, which discusses various local, …

David Abraham Adler (born April 10, 1947) is the author of nearly 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Book of..." series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.

Mary Murphy is weekend co-anchor of the "CW 11 News at Ten" on WPIX-TV, and a correspondent for the station's weekday broadcasts. Murphy joined the WB11 in 1993. She is a graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York.

Charles B. Wang (born August 19, 1944) is the co-founder of Computer Associates International, Inc. (now CA, Inc.) and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team. He was born in Shanghai, but moved to Queens, NY, when he was eight years old. He attended the elite Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Queens College in New York, and began working at Columbia University.