Notable Residents
The neighborhood has a long tradition of being home to some of the world's most wealthy, powerful and influential families and individuals. Some of the notable people who have lived here include:
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- Woody Allen – film director, screenwriter, and actor
- Brooke Astor – philanthropist and widow of Vincent Astor
- Michael Bloomberg
- Mariah Carey – singer
- Joan Didion – award-winning author
- Jamie Dimon
- Vladimir Horowitz
- Barbara Feldon
- Jay S. Fishman
- Jonathan Franzen – Pulitzer prize-winning novelist
- Gerald Garson – former NY Supreme Court Justice convicted of accepting bribes to manipulate outcomes of divorce proceedings
- Sarah Michelle Gellar – award-winning actress
- Ricky Gervais – comedian
- Ariel Helwani – journalist for MMAFighting.com
- Star Jones
- Caroline Kennedy – daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy
- David H. Koch
- Spike Lee – Emmy Award-winning director
- Robert I. Lipp
- Madonna – entertainer; purchased $40 million mansion on East 81st Street at Lexington Avenue in 2009
- Barbara Margolis – prisoners' rights advocate who served as official greeter of New York City.
- Malachi Martin – best-selling author
- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady
- Lee Radziwill – sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
- Lynn Pressman Raymond – toy and game innovator who was president of the Pressman Toy Corporation
- Martin Scorsese – Academy Award-winning film director
- Eliot Spitzer – former Governor of New York
- Lella Vignelli
- Massimo Vignelli
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Famous quotes containing the words notable and/or residents:
“Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it’s more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)