- Erwin Nyc
Erwin (Edward) Piotr Nyc (May 24, 1914 in Kattowitz, Germany (now Katowice) - May 1, 1988) was an interwar Polish soccer midfield player of Upper Silesian origin. Born Erwin Nytz, he changed his last name to its Polonized version in 1934 and during the Second World War again changed name to Nytz. In late 1930s Nyc played for Polonia Warszawa, and also represented the Polish national football team. - Radim Nyč
Radim Nyč is a former Czech cross country skier who raced from 1988 to 1994. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary while his best individual Winter Olympics finish was a 6th in the 50 km event in 1992. Nyč also won a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1989 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. His best individual finish at the Nordic skiing World Championships was a 13th in the 15 km event at those same championships. - Robert Jackson
Robert Jackson is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 7th District in Manhattan. The district includes the neighborhoods of West Harlem, Sugar Hill, Washington Heights and Inwood. Jackson, first elected in 2001, is a Democrat. Before being elected to the Council, Jackson was employed by the Public Employee Federation, a labor union. - Doggie
Doggie (born April 19, 1966 in Køge) is a Danish artist-observer, currently based in Copenhagen and Istanbul. He was one of the pioneers of Danish Hip-Hop and in the early 80's he became a member of The New Nation and started the graffiti crew The Dark Roses. He studied advertisement and was working as an AD and as a graphic designer since 1988. He made several Hip-Hop jams, AV-shows and became involved in Scandinavian graffiti exhibitions/shows as well. - Patrick Smith
Patrick Smith is a NYC painter. He is also the creator of the website Vectorpark.com and a co-founder of the The Ganzfeld. Patrick Smith was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1975, and later lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Reston, Virginia. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a BFA in Painting in 1998, and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. - Paul Banks
Paul Julian Banks (born May 3, 1978 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England) is the lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the New York City based band Interpol. Banks joined the band in 1998 when he ran into Daniel Kessler, whom he had met on a study abroad program in Paris. Banks's voice has been compared to that of Patrick Fitzgerald of Kitchens of Distinction and, most notably, Ian Curtis, the deceased lead singer of the band Joy Division, … - Jackie Clarke
Jackie Clarke is a notable writer, actress, professional radio broadcaster and fixture of the New York City improv comedy scene. She is often confused with an Australian mother of two in Wikipedia and media other Internet-based references. Jackie began her radio career in January 2006 on 92.3 WFNY-FM with the late-night talk show "The Jake and Jackie Show" with Jake Fogelnest which was show was canceled in May 2006. - Julius Papp
Julius Papp is a house music producer and DJ whose roots lie in Disco of the '70s and New Wave of the '80s. Julius was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, and got tuned into dance music through the city’s flourishing club scene and diverse radio broadcasts. He started collecting vinyl records in the late '70s and took to the turntables in 1985, scoring his first major club gig 2 years later. He moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and then again three years later, up north, … - Candida Royalle
Candida Royalle (born Candice Vitala on October 15, 1950 in NYC) is an American producer and director of couples-oriented pornography and a former pornographic actress. She is member of the XRCO and the AVN Halls of Fame. Initially trained in music, dance, and art in New York with studies at the New York High School of Arts and Design, Parson's School of Design and the City University of New York, she eventually entered a career as a porn star, … - George Adams
George Rufus Adams (29 April, 1940 Covington, Georgia - 14 November, 1992 New York City, New York) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He was also known for his idiosyncratic singing. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond. - Jim Sclavunos
Jim Sclavunos is an American rock music drummer, percussionist and producer. Sclavunos, who is a Greek-American from NYC, has performed with Sonic Youth, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Lydia Lunch and was member of 8 Eyed Spy, The Cramps, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and Alice Texas. Sclavunos is memorably described in the pages of The Wire as an "infamous elegant degenerate", has been a key player in Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds since 1994. - Eileen Ryan
Eileen Ryan (circa 1928) is an American actress who has appeared in a number of movies and TV series. She was the wife of the late actor and director Leo Penn. She is also mother of actor Sean Penn, singer Michael Penn and the late actor Chris Penn. Ryan was born to an Irish-Italian Roman Catholic family in New York City, under the name Eileen Annucci, the daughter of Rose and A. William Annucci. - Glenn Davis
Glenn Davis is best known for his contributions to the music scene in the Northeast, United States. A native of Weston, Massachusetts, he pioneered among other things, the shadowing technique of recording. Brief History: *Became a drummer at age 5 and was allowed to keep drums at school to play for talent shows and during lunch for other student's enjoyment all the way through High School Graduation. - John Fekner
John Fekner (b. October 6th, 1950 NYC), An influential artist in both the street art movement and motion graphic design, anonymously known in the 70s for hundreds of environmental and conceptual works consisting of words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted throughout the five boroughs of New York. Although Fekner’s work has at times been extremely public, media-savvy and technology-driven; he has maintained a low profile and resolute vision throughout his thirty-year career. - Brenda Kahn
Brenda Kahn is a NYC-based singer-songwriter known for her poetic lyrics. Her career began in 1990, when her first album, "Goldfish Don't Talk Back", was released to critical acclaim. The album showcased Kahn as an important voice of the anti-folk movement of the early nineties, a movement she was an important part of from the beginning. Her punk-tinged folk music led to a major label deal with the Chaos label at Columbia Records, and in 1992, … - Melissa Russo
Melissa Russo is a television journalist currently working for WNBC-TV in New York. She is currently the solo anchor for the "NewsChannel 4 at 6" and "11"pm newscasts on Saturdays. She joined WNBC-TV as Government Affairs Reporter in September 1998. Before joining NewsChannel 4, she worked as a political reporter for NY1 News where she worked since 1992. In her work as a government affairs reporter, … - Mike Longo
Mike Longo(born March 19, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a jazz pianist, composer, and author. He is most known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie. - Jenifer Lewis
Jenifer Jeanette Lewis (born on January 25, 1957 in Kinloch, Missouri, is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayals of strong-willed, matronly characters. Soon after she arrived in NYC, Lewis began on Broadway in a small role in "Eubie" (1979), the musical based on the work of Eubie Blake. She next landed the role of Effie White in the workshop of the Michael Bennett-directed musical "Dreamgirls", … - Eugene Hütz
Eugene Hütz is a musician and actor. He moved from Ukraine to Burlington, Vermont with his parents following the Chernobyl nuclear accident, living as a refugee from the age 14. Later, he moved to New York, where he now fronts and plays acoustic guitar for his gypsy-punk band Gogol Bordello. Hütz also DJs regularly at Mehanata in New York City. - Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter (born January 31 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her role as Lucille Bluth on the critically acclaimed television show "Arrested Development". Born in Brooklyn, Jessica Walter was raised in Queens, New York and graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts. In the early 1960s, she trained alongside James Caan and Christopher Lloyd at NYC's Neighborhood Playhouse before getting her big break, … - Frank Bello
Frank Bello was born on July 9, 1965 in the Bronx, New York, USA. He replaced Dan Lilker on bass guitar in Anthrax, a thrash metal band, on the Spreading the Disease album. He was warmly received by the band's fans, who enjoyed his energetic stage presence and inventive bass style. He played fast, but with feeling that is generally lacking in heavy metal music. - Stephanie Adams
Stephanie Adams (born July 24, 1970 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American model, spirituality author and the November 1992 "Playboy" Playmate, who continues to appear in Playboy. Adams is also the first Playmate to become a LGBT spokesmodel and advocate in the LGBT community; "The Village Voice" named her "Best NYC lesbian sex symbol" in 2004. On September 23, 2006, Adams announced a lawsuit against a New York city taxicab driver, the NYPD, … - Stephen M. Ross
New York City-based real estate developer Stephen M. Ross is founder, chairman and CEO of The Related Companies, L.P. (TRC) The developer of numerous high-profile projects in New York City and around the nation, TRC is best known for its historic 2.8 million-square-foot $1,700,000,000 Time Warner Center, which has transformed Columbus Circle into one of New York’s premier destinations. - Nancy Dussault
Nancy Dussault (born June 30 1936 in Pensacola, Florida) is an American singer and actress. She grew up as a "Navy junior". In 1962, Dussault stepped into the role of Maria in the Broadway production of "The Sound of Music". She received a Tony Award nomination in 1961 for Best Featured Actress (Musical) for "Do Re Mi" and was nominated for her performance in "Bajour" (1965). She appeared in the City Center Gilbert & Sullivan NYC Company, … - Deborah Orin
Deborah Orin (April 3 1947 - January 28 2007) was Washington D.C. bureau chief for the "New York Post". Born Deborah Clare Slotkin to Aaron and Sarah Slotkin, Orin grew up in Stuyvesant Town in New York City. She majored in French and graduated with honors from Radcliffe College. She received a master's degree from Northwestern University and also studied at the Sorbonne. - Franky G
Franky G (born October 30, 1965) is an American film and television actor of Puerto Rican decent. He is arguably most famous for his portrayal of Xavier in "Saw II". Gonzalez, the middle of seven siblings, was born Francisco Gonzalez in Brooklyn, New York to parents who moved to NYC from Puerto Rico. He studied criminal law investigation at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma. Gonzalez worked at a strip-club, as a bouncer, a security guard, … - Jaq
Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum, known as JAQ, is a professional b-boy, born and raised in Chicago to a German mother and Pakistani father. The DJ, emcee, beatmaker, producer, beatboxer then moved to NYC where he learned how to make beats and carefully craft rhymes. J was the composer and DJ for the off-broadway smash hit musical comedy, The Bomb-itty of Errors. He was also composer and co-star of MTV's Scratch and Burn, … - Erik Marcisak
Erik Marcisak was born on March 17, 1978 in Queens, NY. He is an American writer, sketch comedy producer and an actor. Erik Marcisak was named one of Backstage’s Top Ten "Comedy Best Bets" in 2005 for producing the controversial sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Rewritten" which used the previous night's Saturday Night Live as a creative jumping-off point for an entirely new sketch show that was written, rehearsed, and performed within 8 hours the next day. - Tom Zbikowski
Thomas Michael Zbikowski is an All-American defensive back, punt returner, and strong safety for the University of Notre Dame football team. He grew up in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and attended Buffalo Grove High School in Buffalo Grove, Illinois. He also was a Golden Glove boxer, who had an outstanding amateur boxing career. Zbikowski is described by coach Charlie Weis, as "all day tough." His 2005-2006 season was nothing short of sensational. - Campion Platt
Campion A. Platt (b. Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an architect. He established the architecture and design firm Campion A. Platt, P.C. in NYC after attending Columbia University School of Architecture in New York City. He is frequently published in Architectural Digest magazine as one of the Top 100 Architects and Designers in the world. He completed the Time Warner showhouse at Columbus Circle and the "Esquire Magazine" Astor Place showhouse, … - Mars Williams
Mars Williams is a versatile American jazz and rock saxophonist. Mars started out as an arranger and orchestrator, studying under the mentorship of Anthony Braxton and Roscoe Mitchell. He is a veteran musician who has played with various bands and recording artists including the Psychedelic Furs, Massacre, Ministry, Billy Idol, Power Station, Die Warzau, The Waitresses, Pete Cosey, Billy Squier, and a lot of leading figures in the NYC downtown scene. - Max Mathews
Max Vernon Mathews (* November 13, 1926, in Columbus, Nebraska) was a pioneer in the world of computer music. He studied electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving a Sc.D. in 1954. Working at Bell Labs, Mathews wrote MUSIC, the first widely-used program for sound generation, in 1957. For the rest of the century, he continued as a leader in digital audio research, synthesis, … - Jamshied Sharifi
Jamshied Sharifi (born October 17, 1960) is an Iranian musician (composer and performer) and music producer. His name is pronounced. After studying at MIT and Berklee College of Music, Sharifi went on to compose the music for the Nickelodeon film "Harriet the Spy" and the Paramount/Nickelodeon film "Clockstoppers". For Dream Theater's album Octavarium he arranged and conducted for various orchestra instruments, including strings and horns. - Donna Pescow
Donna Pescow (born March 24, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American film and television actress. Her father owned and ran a news stand in downtown NYC at Battery Place. Pescow took drama classes with "Rocky" co-star Carl Weathers. Pescow studied at the American Academy of the Arts. She lost her native Brooklyn accent, but had to re-learn it for her best known role as Annette in "Saturday Night Fever", for which she gained 18kg (about 40 pounds). - Stephen McNally
Stephen McNally was a NYC-born actor (July 29 1913 - June 4 1994) remembered mostly for his appearances in many westerns and action films. He was an attorney in the late 1930s before pursuing a career in acting. He started his stage career using his real name Horace McNally and began appearing uncredited in many World War II-era films. - Peter Gibson
Peter Hansen Gibson (born April 14, 1971 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is the third of five children: Robert Christian Gibson Jr. (nicknamed, Gibby), Paula Elizabeth Gibson, Jeffrey Michael Gibson & Michael Patrick Gibson. His older siblings, Gibby & Paula, along with his mother, Paula Kathryn Ivanovich, were involved in various Broadway productions, this gave him the inspiration and opportunity to pursue a career in show business. - Thomas Bullock
Thomas Bullock is a musician and former member of the electroclash group A.R.E. Weapons. Originally from Cambridge, Bullock got his start in the late 80s in the U.K with the Tonka crew alongside DJ Harvey. In 1991 he moved to San Francisco and joined the Wicked crew alongside Markie, Jeno, and DJ Garth. Wicked were critical in creating and promoting the West Coast psychedelic house sound. Bullock was known for his enthusiastic and unpredictable late night sets. - Gavin O'Connor
Gavin O'Connor (born 1964) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright and actor. O'Connor was born on Long Island, New York. After attending the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, he became interested in all aspects of film production, and in 1992, he wrote and produced Ted Demme's directorial debut, the short film "The Bet". Three years later, he made his own feature film co-writing and directing debut with "Comfortably Numb", … - Scott Healy
Scott Healy is a New York-based keyboardist and composer best known as the keyboardist of The Max Weinberg 7 on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on NBC. His wide-ranging performing and recording credits include many of the greats in rock, blues, R&B and jazz, including Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Al Green, BB King, Jackson Browne, Branford Marsalis, and Tony Bennett. - Floyd H. Flake
Reverend Dr. Floyd Harold Flake (born January 30, 1945 in Los Angeles) is the senior pastor of the 23,000 member Greater Allen African Methodist Episcopal Cathedral in Jamaica, Queens, New York, and president of Wilberforce University. He is a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
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