- Jessica Lappin
Jessica Lappin is a Democratic New York City Councilwoman representing the Upper East Side, a Manhattan neighborhood. From 1998 to April 2005, she was district office chief of staff to City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, until her election in November 2005. She defeated housing lawyer Dan Quart among others in the primary race. She is a practicing Jew and an alumna of Stuyvesant High School. On the Council, she serves as the Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Landmarks, …
- Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.
- Robert Iler
Robert Iler (born March 2, 1985 in New York, New York) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of A.J. Soprano on "The Sopranos". On July 4, 2001, when Iler was 16 years old, he and three others were arrested on Manhattan's Upper East Side for robbing $40 from two Brazilian tourists. Iler was charged with second degree robbery as well as marijuana possession which carried up to 15 years in prison.
- Jennifer Levin
Jennifer Levin was an eighteen-year-old woman who was killed by nineteen-year-old Robert Chambers in New York City's Central Park on 26 August 1986. The case became sensational and divisive. Ms. Levin and Mr. Chambers knew each other and dated briefly. Known in some news reports as "The Preppy Murder," both came from privileged backgrounds. Ms. Levin had been born on Long Island and lived in California briefly following her parents' divorce.
- Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an award-winning American novelist and essayist. Franzen was born in Chicago, Illinois, raised in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, and educated at Swarthmore College. He lives on Upper East Side of New York City, and writes for "The New Yorker" magazine.
- Eva Moskowitz
Eva Moskowitz (born March 4, 1964) is a former City Council member in New York City. She graduated from Stuyvesant High School and the University of Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University. She married Eric Grannis, a classmate at Stuyvesant, and they have three children: Culver, Dillon, and Hannah. In 1999, she was elected as council member for the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
- Micah Kellner
Micah Z. Kellner is an American politician from the state of New York. A Democrat, he serves as a member of the New York State Assembly from the 65th District, which includes Manhattan's Upper East Side and Roosevelt Island. Following the appointment of Assemblyman Alexander "Pete" Grannis as New York State's Environment Commissioner early in 2007, Kellner was selected as the Democratic nominee for the special election held to fill the vacancy.
- Daniel Garodnick
Daniel R. (Dan) Garodnick is a New York City Councilman representing the 4th district, which comprises Midtown East, Murray Hill, Stuyvesant Town, and much of the Upper East Side. Garodnick was elected in 2005, winning 63% of the vote in the general election and defeating Republican candidate Patrick Murphy as well as Libertarian candidate Jak Jacob Karako.
- John Cheever
John Cheever (May 27, 1912-June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer, sometimes called "the Chekhov of the suburbs." His fiction is mostly set in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, and old New England villages based on various South Shore towns around Quincy, Massachusetts, where he was born. Cheever is perhaps best remembered for his short stories (including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, …
- Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1,1864 - July 13,1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. Many of his photographs are known for appearing like those other art forms, and he is also known for his marriage to painter Georgia O'Keeffe. Stieglitz was born the eldest of six children in Hoboken, …
- Lisa Gastineau
Lisa Gastineau (born December 11, 1959) is a New York-based socialite. She was married to NFL legend Mark Gastineau for ten years. The couple split after Lisa walked in on her husband having an affair with actress Brigitte Nielsen. Lisa and Mark immediately began filing papers for divorce. The split was so painful, that Lisa's daughter, Brittny, was sent away to live with her parents. During Mark's successful run as the leader of New York Sack Exchange, …
- Nicholas Negroponte
Nicholas Negroponte (born December 1, 1943) is a Greek-American architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also known as the founder of The One Laptop per Child association (OLPC).
- James de la Vega
James De La Vega is an artist who lives and works in New York City's Spanish Harlem (aka East Harlem/El Barrio); he has a store on St. Mark's Place in the East Village. He is known primarily for his murals and the chalk drawings he creates on public surfaces such as sidewalks. His murals can be found all over East Harlem, and his chalk drawings may show up anywhere in the city.
- Brittny Gastineau
Brittny Gastineau (born November 11, 1982) is an American model, socialite, and reality television personality. She is the daughter of former New York Jets defensive end football player Mark Gastineau, and Lisa Gastineau, with whom she starred on E!'s reality TV show "Gastineau Girls". Brittny also starred in another E! reality series, "Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive". Her parents were divorced after Mark announced his engagement to actress Brigitte Nielsen, …
- Alexander Pete Grannis
Alexander B. "Pete" Grannis is the New York State Commissioner of Environmental Conservation. He formerly served as a Democrat representing District 65 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised primarily of the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Roosevelt Island. Grannis was nominated by Gov. Eliot Spitzer as DEC Commissioner on January 25, 2007. He was approved in April.
- Thisbe Nissen
Thisbe Nissen (1972-) is an American author. Originally from New York City, Nissen has lived in Iowa for the last eleven years. Among her works are "Osprey Island", "The Good People of New York", and "Out of the Girls' Room and into the Night". She has taught a fiction course at least once a year since the inception of the Iowa Young Writers' Workshop, a two-week intensive creative writing workshop "camp" for talented high school students, …
- Günter Blobel
Günter Blobel is a German American biologist. Blobel was born in Waltersdorf (Niegosławice) in the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. He graduated at the University of Tübingen in 1960 and received his Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1967. He was appointed to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1986.
- Charles Lewis Tiffany
Charles Lewis Tiffany (b. February 15, 1812, d. February 18, 1902) founded Tiffany & Co. in New York City in 1837. He created the country's first retail catalog, and was known for his jewelry expertise. In 1851, he introduced the English standard of sterling silver. Tiffany's Upper East Side townhouse, designed by McKim, Mead, and White, once stood on the current site of the Ralph Lauren Polo Sport boutique across from the now-famous Rhinelander Mansion.
- Asher Edelman
Asher Edelman is a former corporate raider who, along with Carl Icahn, served as the basis for the character Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (film) due to his 1985 takeover of Datapoint. In 1988, he taught a course called "Corporate Raiding - The Art of War" at New York's Columbia University, and then moved to Lausanne. In 1996, he acquired shares in the Societe du Louvre, a group with holdings in Taittinger champagne, Hotel de Crillon, Baccarat crystal, …
- Jonathan Zizmor
Dr. Jonathan Zizmor is an American dermatologist from New York City famous for his television commercials and prolific, colorful subway ads promising that "Now you can have beautiful clear skin!" Despite Dr. Zizmor's high degree of local fame, some of his ads boast that "all patients [are] seen by Dr. Z." The fact that most New Yorkers recognize Dr.
- David Oei
David Oei (surname pronounced "Wee") is a classical pianist (b. 1950 in Hong Kong). Oei was born in Hong Kong, where he began studying piano at an early age. At the age of nine, after winning numerous 1st prizes at the Hong Kong Music Festival, he was a soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra.
- Jason Galanis
Jason Woodruff Galanis, (b. 1970) at New York Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut, is an investor in financial technology companies and trademark inventions since 1988 and is currently a principal of Holmby Companies. He coordinated the leveraged buy-out of Internet Billing Company (iBill), a unit of credit-card processor Intercept (NASDAQ: ICPT).
- Jerome Weidman
Jerome Weidman (April 4, 1913, Lower East Side, NYC - October 6, 1998, Upper East Side, NYC) was an American playwright and novelist. He collaborated with George Abbott on the book for the musical "Fiorello!" (music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick), which won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
- Lillie Devereaux Blake
Lillie Devereaux Blake (1835-1913) was an American woman suffragist and reformer, born in Raleigh, N. C., and educated in New Haven, Conn. In 1855 she married Frank G. Q. Umsted, a Philadelphia lawyer. Her husband died in 1859(after he apparently committed suicide) leaving her with two children to support. Refusing to remarry and be financially dependent on a man, Blake began to write feverishly to support herself and her daughters; she wrote short stories, novels, …
- Carrie Bradshaw
- Samantha
I'm from the upper east side, and i go to fit. I love to go out with my girls or stay in and chill. i love meeting new people.
- Alex Wu
- Courtney Law
I love my job, my boyfriend and all my friends. Mexican food, hot sauce, and cute kitties are probably my favorite things. I Love to talk, watch sports and drink beer.
- Laura
Hmmmm....where to start? Grew up in a small town in New York named Cornwall. I then went to Rutgers University in New Jersey where I spent four heavenly years with the best friends a girl could ask for. I graduated at the ripe ol' age of 21 and then moved to Cape Cod where I lived on the beach and drank my days away. We then packed up and moved to Vail Colorado where I spent the next two years of my life.
- Milan
Male Fitness Model.
- Paul
MySpace is under construction, we apologize for the inconvenience! :-) I'm working at Bloomberg LP doing finance stuff. I have realized I like Technical Analysis so I have began studying for the CMT. I passed level 2 of three on May 5th 2007. The CMT is like a CFA or CPA, just different topics. www.mta.org for more info.
- Blair Townsend
- Holly
what can i say about my self?.... my name is holly, and i live in San Luis Obispo, cali. i am a very athletic person, i like to play a variety of sports especially the ones that involved a board. i am finishing my business degree. i like guys who are muscled, guys who can keep up with me, and are clean. overall i am a fun girl, i like to go party and have fun.
- Ali
hey whats up, my name is Ali, but sometimes some people calls me Al. or whatever nick name that they came up with. i work at a mercedes dealership yes im into cars i like to work on them,i also like hanging out with fam, friends. having fun whatever it takes to have a blast.
- Wade
I guess the only way to tell people about me is to tell them what I love. I love: Minus the Bear... oh, and some other music, too. Taking pictures. My FOUR puppys. FOUR. My friends Going to Shows Portland. Upper East Side.
- Anisa
Just graduated from Ohio University and live in NYC working for CNN's Showbiz Tonight!!! Also part of an all girls marketing agency called 3iying who's main goal is to help advertising companies start making better products and better ads for modern girls! Add your own flips at www.youtube/3iying.
- Blair
Sex, Drugs, Lies and Drama... And these are supposed to be the best years of our lives.
- Dayna
Alright.. heres the deal, my names DAYNA but my best call me D or hunnay, Im straight up Jersey; doesnt get any better!! I'm a registered medical tech.. Im gona be 22 years old soon! I take nothing for granted and appreciate all that I have. I am a very smart person in my ways, I mean street smart an knowledge smart. I can be an airhead at times..RAH RAH for life ha.
- Brandon Ayers
Im the best and thats all you need to know! On the real though. I love cars, they are my passion! Fixing up a car is an art to me. I enjoy being around people all the time, and I love to travel(cant stand to be at home). I am an average joe if you will,and I have a personality that anyone would envy. Thats why I am the best!!
- Eric Dilworth
MY NAME IS ERIC I LIKE SHORT WALKS ON THE BEACH, CUZ MY HEART CANT TAKE IT. I like to chill,sleep and sleep. although i probably work more than i sleep, ( i need to stop that), oh, i like talking to myself on the computer. and mainly HAVING FUN. that is a must have fun. number one rule.