Table of Contents � May 15, 2006 Issue of New York Magazine

May 15, 2006 Issue

Cover Story

The Influentials

New York is in a state of constant flux, but it doesn’t change on its own: It takes the push and pull of millions of willful and sometimes ingenious individuals. Inside, you’ll find an annotated list of, arguably, the city’s most influential people (and argue you will). In preparing this list, we tried to distinguish influence from power�to identify those, famous and not, who are leaving a discernible mark on the city. Whether those changes are for better or worse, we hope they offer a collective portrait of a dynamic New York at this moment in its life. Incidentally, the portrait on this page is of one particular influential, but you’ll have to figure out who it is from the complete roster.
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Intelligencer

Spitz, Paterson Really Split the Ticket

Already behaving like an old married couple.

Can Heath Ledger Save Bklyn?

Or can Buscemi?

Hot Chelsea Art Trend: Shoplifting

A gallerist’s innocence lost.

�Syriana’ CIA Agent Spooks Clooney

Why do girls date George?

Boutique Duo Check Out Separately

Errico and Hanson split.

Stunted

Sure, Tom Cruise commandeered a D train in a Mission: Impossible PR stunt, David Blaine spent the week in a tank of saltwater hoping his skin wouldn’t bubble off, and a vampire teen was on the loose in Queens, but can anyone really doubt that the most fascinating person in the city last week was deli cashier Sylvia Garcia?

Dust Bowl

The Greenpoint fire throws the future of a legendary skate-rat paradise into question.

Farmer Ban

Warding off the organic rabble.

Guantï��namo Better Blues

How the Bush Administration has helped fuel the growth of human-rights activism around the world.

The Afterlife of a Prom Gown

Prom season is upon us, and a gown-donation service struggles to match girls to dresses previously worn for only one enchanted evening.

Remembering Rudy

Whyï��d it take so much time to make the documentary Giuliani Time?

Strategist

Best Bets

A tennis racket for the good-but-not-that-good female player, high-class patchouli, and more hot buys.

Ask a Shop Clerk

Eric Sauma of Mood Fabrics.

Shop News

Store openings this week.

Look Book

A financial analyst who strives to look like a million bucks at all times.

Underground Gourmet

A tale of two fried-chicken establishments.

In Season

A morel fricassee from a Café Boulud chef.

Insatiable Critic

Gael Greene reviews Capital Grille.

Bicentennial, On the Rocks

Q&A with David Wondrich, curator of the Museum of the American Cocktail.

The �It� Fish

Escolar, the deep-sea, warm-water fish with a checkered past, is back in the spotlight�if it ever truly went away.

Trickle-Down Effect

We tapped Blaue Gans sommelier Aldo Sohm, a veteran of a ground-breaking water tasting in his native Austria (tap beat out all the bottled brands), to test the ecofriendly waters.