Ben Wellington blends his love of statistics, the city, and comedy in his entertaining analysis of the story of New York City, told through data.

Dan Barasch’s grandmother grew up in New York’s Lower East Side. Now, he’s building an underground park in her old neighborhood, where greenspace is limited.

Ed Gavagan was walking down the street in downtown Manhattan when he was the victim of a gang assignment to kill a random stranger. He lives to tell the amazing story.

The first MacArthur-winning cartoonist, Ben Katchor has collected both cult and mainstream hat tips for his wry, poetic creations that find uncanny humor (and color) in the commonplace deeds of a bygone New York City.

Known as the preacher’s preacher, Rev. James Forbes is a spiritual leader with charismatic style and radically progressive opinions.

Mark Bezos works at Robin Hood, a poverty-fighting charity in New York City, and the assistant captain of a volunteer fire company in suburban New York.

Michael Pemberton is a New York-based actor and singer/songwriter.

Parul Sehgal is an editor for "The New York Times Book Review."

Trebor Scholz is an advocate of "platform cooperativism" and an associate professor at The New School in New York City.

Sarah Kay is a writer, performer and educator from New York City.

Matthew O’Reilly is a veteran emergency medical technician on Long Island, New York.

Johann Hari is the author of two "New York Times" best-selling books.

Stacey Baker assigns photography for the wide-ranging vision of the weekly New York Times Magazine.

Yann LeCun is chief AI scientist at Facebook and Silver Professor at New York University.

Marcia Belsky is a New York City-based stand-up comedian, writer and musician.

Writer, actor, comedian, Maysoon Zayid is the co-founder of the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.

Madison McFerrin is an independent singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York, with a distinctive "soul-appella" sound.

Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, a founder of Design Observer and a teacher at Yale School of Art and Yale School of Management.

Aja Monet is a Caribbean American surrealist blues poet, storyteller and organizer born in Brooklyn, New York.

Born in Japan's Hyogo prefecture, Rei spent her childhood years in New York and now sings her unique, self-penned lyrics in both Japanese and English.

Caroline Weaver owns CW Pencil Enterprise, a wood-cased pencil specialty shop in New York City.

Kevin Roose, New York Times tech columnist and author of "Futureproof," writes about the many ways humans attempt to live alongside machines.

Danielle R. Moss is chief executive officer of Oliver Scholars, helping it prepare high-potential Black and Latinx students from underserved New York City communities for success.

David Kwong creates illusions for films and TV, and makes verbal magic as a crossword puzzle maker for the New York Times.

Andrew Fitzgerald is shaping new ways for Twitter and journalists to work together.

With an outspoken approach to the problems of rebuilding cites and a fearless eye for design, Reed Kroloff is helping to change the urban landscape of cities from New York to New Orleans.

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer for the New Yorker and is the author of "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error."

Daniel Engber explores science and culture as an award-winning journalist for Radiolab, the New York Times, Slate and Wired, among others.

Jer Thorp’s work focuses on adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data as a way to help people take control of the information that surrounds them.

Dr. Tracie Keesee is committed to making the New York Police Department the most diverse and inclusive police department in the world.