In March of 2013, The Observer came out with a list of the top 100 influential people in New York in 11 different categories. They range from Marc Jacobs and Jon Stewart, to Henry Kravis and Lorne Michaels

1. The Observer – Top
100 Influential People
in New York
From Marc Jacobs and Jon Stewart, to Henry Kravis, Lorne
Michaels, and Lauren Santo Domingo - The Observer shares
it’s top influential people in NYC.

2. How is this determined?
• Every year The Observer comes out with it’s Top 100
Influential People in New York. There are currently more
than 8 million people living in New York City, so making the
top 100 is pretty impressive. In order to determine who they
would pick, the Observer asked these questions:
• Did this person move the needle somehow?
• Is there something of significance that he or she changed?
• The results were split up into 11 different categories. It
include Art, Business, Entertainment, City Life, Media,
Fashion, Society, Real Estate, Spirit of the City, Sports, and
Tech-VC.

3. Art – Cindy Sherman
• Cindy Sherman is one of the best-known
photographers on the planet. Her photographs—in
which she often uses herself as subject—have
upended the way we see art history, the way men see
women, the way women see themselves and the way
we all see ourselves.
• Though she started as a painter at Buffalo State
College, Ms. Sherman launched herself to stardom
with her iconic self-portraiture. Since the ’70s, she
has photographed herself in an immense range of
costumes, from Hollywood movie star to grotesque
clown to Renaissance muse. For decades, her
portraits—which are currently on display in galleries
across North America and Europe—have explored
and challenged the roles women play in
contemporary society and throughout history. By
acting as both subject and photographer, Ms.
Sherman has demonstrated women’s capacity to
forge their own identities and define their place in
society on their own terms.

4. Business – Henry Kravis
• In the same year The New York Observer was getting
going, a slightly bigger deal was in the works. The
management of RJR Nabisco was trying to take the cigarette
maker private and was offering a stunning fortune to do so.
Henry Kravis offered more. Kravis won, and a legend was
born.
• With mentor Jerome Kohlberg and cousin George
Roberts, Mr. Kravis was a pioneer of ―bootstrap capitalism,‖
using a company’s assets and debt capacity to acquire it with
little equity. KKR’s leveraged buyouts of Beatrice, Kraft and
other giant corporations defined the restructuring of American
consumers’ most familiar brand names:
Tropicana, Samsonite, Safeway, Salem, Winston, Oreo, Ritz,
Snickers, MacMillan, Fleet Bank and many others.
• As if remaking how M&A are transacted isn’t enough, Mr.
Kravis is a leading philanthropist as well as an astute
collector of art. Along with his wife, Marie-Josée, he has been
a tremendous supporter of New York institutions. He is a
board member and a multimillion-dollar contributor to Mount
Sinai Hospital and Columbia Graduate School of Business.
He also started the nonprofit New York City Investment Fund
and is on the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the New York City Ballet.

5. Entertainment - Lorne
Michaels
• Who would have thought a kid from Toronto would go on to become the
most important man in the history of American comedy? In 1975, NBC
invited a 30-year-old comedy writer named Lorne Michaels to pitch a show
to accomplish the minor feat of giving Johnny Carson Tonight reruns a rest
at 11:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Appealing to younger audiences would be a
plus.
• From this seed, Michaels gave birth to a late-night sketch show initially
called NBC’s Saturday Night. (After a Howard Cosell-hosted variety show
with a similar name tanked, Mr. Michaels’s show became Saturday Night
Live.) SNL introduced the world to the original cast of ―The Not Ready for
Prime-Time Players,‖ including Chevy Chase, Dan Ackroyd, John Belushi
and Gilda Radner. All became comedic icons.
• His show, which has remained firmly under his creative control for nearly
40 years—save a brief blip in the early ’80s—would go on to redefine late-
night television, create a national comedic institution and remake American
comedy. Most remarkably, SNL accomplished the impossible feat of
making it cool to stay in on Saturday nights.
• Over the years, SNL’s supremacy would establish New York as the
definitive comedian’s mecca. Even as Mr. Michaels conducted frequent
talent raids in Chicago, L.A. and Toronto and at The Harvard Lampoon, the
talent thrived and grew in the SNL environment. His impeccable eye for
potential would only grow more acute as the years went on, with the show
launching the careers of some of the biggest stars of our time—from Eddie
Murphy and Mike Myers to Will Ferrell and Tina Fey—and spawning
numerous TV shows and films, from Wayne’s World to 30 Rock.

6. Fashion - Marc Jacobs
• Marc Jacobs, the brash enfant terrible of high fashion, can’t
seem to do anything without making a splash. Since he
became creative director of luxury French fashion house
Louis Vuitton, he has strengthened its business, breathing
life into the formerly stuffy leather goods company with a
now-iconic collaboration with Japanese artist Takashi
Murakami.
• His own lines, Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs, have
become a wardrobe staple for millions of women (try to walk
a Manhattan mile without spotting one of his trademark
workwear bags). His retail mecca on Bleecker Street, which
he runs with his partner, Robert Duffy, has transformed
Greenwich Village, turning the neighborhood into a fashion
haven. Add to this his activism on issues from AIDS to skin
cancer—who can forget those T-shirts featuring naked
celebrities?—and it becomes readily apparent that Mr.
Jacobs is a whole lot more than just the name on your bag.

7. Media - Jon Stewart
• It’s time to face facts: Jon Stewart will probably never run for public office.
As he often points out, his job is to tell jokes, often silly ones, on a network
that also features a show with talking poop. But the very fact that he needs
to remind us of this shows the significance of his extraordinary career in
fake news. Yes, Jon Stewart is a comedian. But he has forever changed
the very nature of comedy: what we think it is, and particularly what we
think it can do.
• He took a flagging satire of news shows on an obscure network and
transformed it into one of our primary platforms for speaking truth to power.
• Born Jon Leibowitz in 1962, Mr. Stewart became one of the fresh faces on
the stand-up circuit in the ’90s. His stint on The Larry Sanders Show and a
few brief but memorable turns in television and film introduced Mr. Stewart
to comedy audiences, but he really made his mark after taking over the
faltering Daily Show from Craig Kilborn. Mr. Stewart was instrumental in
changing the format and focus of the show, encouraging his
correspondents (including Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and Ed Helms) to
take a political stance and let their opinions inspire their comedy. In so
doing, Mr. Stewart and his multiple-Emmy-winning staff not only created
the most biting satire of American politics in television history, they
invented a new way of informing the public about the issues. Studies show
that not only do many young Americans get much of their news from The
Daily Show, but that the show’s content is as substantive as that of
―serious‖ news programs.

8. Society – Lauren Santo
Domingo
• Lauren Santo Domingo is giving the job—yes, ―job‖
because she makes it pay—of socialite in New York City
some 21st-century updates. Sure, she’s got icy-blond
good looks, a millionaire upbringing and a billion-heir
husband, but she’s also managed to make bank on
something she’s an expert at: exclusivity. In 2011, Ms.
Santo Domingo co-founded Moda Operandi, a fashion
startup that allows members to pre-order looks straight
off the runway, months before they hit stores.
• Public-embarrassment- and reality-show-free, Ms. Santo
Domingo (with credit to her PR past) has also managed
to bring Gilded Age respectability back to the ―Manhattan
socialite‖ moniker while still embracing (and properly
using) social media platforms. Ms. Santo Domingo is a
pro at keeping it classy, and her hydrogen peroxide-sharp
tweets (followed by 58,000 users) and envy-inducing
Instagram feed prove she’s a socialite for the digital age.

9. Tech-VC – David Karp
• When David Karp was 14, his parents recognized that Bronx
Science could not keep up with him and introduced him to the
animation producer Fred Siebert, with whom he interned. Mr.
Karp moved on to work as the chief technology officer for
UrbanBaby, an Internet forum for parents, and in February
2007, he founded his own company. It provided a platform for
the rapid-fire posting of text, photos, quotes, links, music and
videos. It was designed to make blogging and information-
sharing easier.
• The program was called Tumblr, which, at the moment,
employs 164 people and contains 96 million blogs and 44.3
billion posts. Mr. Karp, who was included in this year’s Forbes
30 under 30 list, has made a good sum of money—he
purchased a condo in Williamsburg for $1.6 million last year,
and his net worth is greater than $200 million—but he’s still
figuring out how to monetize his website with meaningful
modes of advertising. He dismisses the revenue models of
Twitter and Facebook, with their ―little blue links,‖ as he calls
them. However Mr. Karp’s ambitions play out, the insignia on
Tumblr’s About page keeps the company grounded: Made in
NY.

10. Complete List
Arts Kenneth Chenault Martin Scorsese Terry Lungren
Cindy Sherman Henry Kravis Spike Lee Vera Wang
Andy Warhol Bernard Madoff Peter Gelb Cathy Horyn
Larry Gagosian Kenneth Chenault Jerry Seinfeld
Glenn Lowry Laurence Fink Martin Scorsese Media
Agnes Gund Stephen Schwarzman Spike Lee
Jeff Koons Madonna Jon Stewart
Jerry Saltz and Roberta City Life Woody Allen Strauss Zelnick
Smith Scott Rudin Rupert Murdoch
Marina Abramovic Carrie Bradshaw Harvey and Bob Joan Didion
James Levine Danny Meyer Weinstein Robert De Niro Helen Gurley Brown
Ian Schrager Lorne Michaels Regis Philbin
Business Mario Batali Howard Stern Martha Stewart
George Soros David Chang Tom Wolfe
James Dimon Julian Niccolini Fashion Mortimer Zuckerman
Carl Icahn David Letterman
Ronald Perelman Entertainment Ralph Lauren Tom Freston
Michael Steinhardt Jay-Z and Beyoncé Marc Jacobs Nick Denton
Paul Singer Cameron Mackintosh Anna Wintour Roger Ailes
Henry Kravis Peter Gelb Jenna Lyons Paula Scher
Bernard Madoff Jerry Seinfeld Michael Kors Barbara Walters

11. Complete List
Jeffery Zucker Jonathon (Jody) Durst Joel Klein
Michiko Kakutani Larry Silverstein Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Masamichi Udagawa and Sigi Moeslinger
Politics Society
Sports
Bill Clinton Tinsley Mortimer
Rudolph Giuliani Derek Blasberg Brian Cashman
Cory Booker Lee Radziwill and Mercedes Joe Torre
Andrew Cuomo Bass Derek Jeter
Michael Bloomberg Brook Astor Eli Manning
Hillary Clinton C.Z. Guest John Mara and Robert Wood Johnson IV
Charles Schumer Lauren Santo Domingo
Tech-VC
Real Estate Spirit of the City
Kenneth Lerer
Stephen Ross, Jeff Blau,Howard Rubenstein Shana Fisher
and Bruce Beal Raymond Kelly Kevin Ryan
Donald Trump Randi Weingarten David Karp
Anthony Malkin Robert Hammond and Joshua Barry Diller
Gary Barnett David Fred Wilson
Douglas Durst Al Sharpton

12. Source
• All information and biographies in this power point came directly from:
The Observer Top 100 Influential People