New York icons/characters who are still alive

Lady Bunny

Moondog

Strapping heterosexual news icon David Tyler Muir.

Yoko Ono

The guy with the bottles on his fingers who said, "waaarrrrriors, come out and playay"

Debbie Harry

Donald Trump

Howard Stern

Barbara Walters

Rudy Giuliani

Alan Dershowitz

Martin S

Cindy Adams

Dan Abrams

Iris Apfel, even though I can’t stand the old cunt

Sarah Jessica Parker

Ramona Singer

David Berkowitz

Ruth Madoff

Martin Shkreli

The Trump Crime Family

Warhol was a Pittsburgh icon.

The Naked Cowboy

Amanda LePore

Raymond the Bagel Man (up by City College)

oh, Raymond may no longer be alive -- sorry

R14 the Factory was in Union Square NY and Warhol lived and was surrounded by New Yorkers most of his life.

Michael Musto

Woody Allen

Elliott Offen

Adam Purple

How about the lady with the crazy long curled fingernails who used to sell socks on St. Mark’s Place?

Or the guy who would ride the R train and make a hellacious racket and yell “I am a space alien. Money makes me go away”

There used to be a guy who rode the 4 train who had no nose. Just a bandaid where a nose should be.

DUH!

Sorry to turn this to microcosm, but I love the regular neighborhood characters, too, not just the famous ones.

There’s a woman in the East 80s who wears coordinated outfits in a sort of 1940s style. She’ll wear things like a leopard coat and ankle socks and old-style high heels and a leopard beret. Some days it’s plaid. I think her name is Janice. She’s got style.

There’s also an old guy who looks like Rod Stewart. He has dyed black hair and wears shit like shambled smoking jackets with pocket squares and velvet loafers without socks and he waved a cigarette around. A character.

Fran Lebowitz

Used to see Elaine Stritch storming around, but she’s dead now.

[quote] [R14] the Factory was in Union Square NY and Warhol lived and was surrounded by New Yorkers most of his life.

That's nice. He's dead.

King Kong

Elegant Elliot Offen.

Guiliani

Burt Bacharach

Be honest, we have to add the Cuomos.

And that guy married to a Hillaryite who got kicked out of Congress.

That woman who takes photos of the Queen and other famous people.

Ivana, of course.

Whoever keeps the Strand going.

Iman.

R25 you do know that was is past tense and I was responding to R14 who you misquoted? That's careless!

mlop

King Kong is dead, killed by New York in several iterations. The final nail in the coffin was the piece of shit musical.

Channel J’s Robin Byrd!

Mariska Hargitay

How you say....Hiaria?

And her equally odious husband.

Jerry Seinfeld

David Letterman

Gilbert Gottfried

Muffie Potter Aston

Robert DeNiro

Graydon Carter

New York icons/ characters should be limited to native New Yorkers. No transplants.

New Yorkers despise flyovers, so you cannot claim them as yours when a famous one moves into the city. You can't have it both ways.

This is the guy I meant in R5.

This is the guy I meant in R5.

R42, NYC is made of many erstwhile outliers. Even Fran Lebowitz was born and raised in Morristown, NJ.

But here's a native son: Cousin Brucie. Even we 60s teens in Eastern PA listened to him on WABC.

btw, the men in the Warriors were hot af.

Bette Midler

Tom Stewart the announcer on WNET

Patrick Ewing

Philippe de Montebello

Patrick Ewing? Then one better add Willis Reed and Walt Frazier!

Dianne Brill, Queen of the Night

Vivi von Cuntington, the New York Social Diary Whisperer.

Giorgio DeLuca. (Joel Dean is deceased.)

Ian Schrager

Dick Cavett.

An icon in his own mind, perhaps, but he qualifies due to longevity.

AC and AC!!

Dan Smith is still alive and he will still teach you guitar.

Liza.

The spirit of Disco Sally Lives on !!!! My Mentor !!! Here she is with Lawrence Welk !!!

Madonna

New York born Timothée Chalamet and Larry David.

Grace Jones

Robert Chambers

Bernhard Goetz

Diane Von Furstenberg

Betsey Johnson, Jerry Hall, Brett Easton Ellis

BARBRA!

Gaga

Letterman

All the good ones are dead: Joan Rivers, Bacall, Jackie Onassis, Brooke Astor, Nan Kempner, Lee Radziwill, Babe Paley, Gloria Vanderbilt, Anne SLater, those type of people.

Anna Wintour?

Lesbian lollapalooza Cynthia Nixon

Sandra Bernhard

Has no one mention Iris yet? She’s even managed to outlive Betty White!

The indomitable Patty Smith.

Susan Lucci (ppl who have never even watched All My Children or any other soaps knew her). Looks great too at 75.

JP Dimon.

Rupert Murdoch? Never been clear just where his home is.

Has no one mentioned Sue Simmons yet? I mean I didn’t know she was still alive until I checked, but apparently she is.

Philippe Petit

Bobo Rockefeller, the NY socialite extraordinaire.

Truman Capote, he was a NYC character.

Until they recently died Didion and Sondheim.

Simon Doonan is our modern day Englishman in New York.

All the black guys who beat and punch old ladies. Every neighborhood in NY has one.

Patti Smith.

With the recent death of Chuck Close, I guess Philip Pearlstein and Alex Katz are the most prominent living NYC artists.

Rex Reed.

Trump should return to Queens and just be a New York guy. Better for everyone all around.

Bianca.

I’m willing to give Amy Sedaris iconic New Yorker status.

Richard Meier

Fran Lebowitz

Woody Allen

Penny Arcade.

Laurie Anderson

Scratch Letterman. He never claimed he was from New York, but from Indiana.

Pussy Galore

R42 New Yorkers are made not born.

Woody and Mia

Lorne

Nathan Lane

Robert Caro

Getting to the bottom of things in NYC

Seinfeld was born in New York but his show was filmed in LA, R38.

Yes to Amy Sedaris. Not quite an icon but a NYC character. She has assimilated fully.

JFK Jr.

SJP.

Mario Cantone.

Patti Smith

Fran Drescher

Jocelyn Wildenstein

For better or worse Bloomberg and Gulianni.

Patti LuPone

R73, Yes, at R11.

Somers Farkas

Jill Zarin—she’s got sass and style!

The Taleses.

Geraldo

Glenn Plaskin

"Sign the Petition!"

R119 did she take up residence on the UWS in the 80s/90s outside of Zabar's or is that another kook?

Susan "It's So Expensive Being Rich" Gutfreund.

The C.H.U.D.s

[quote] did she take up residence on the UWS in the 80s/90s outside of Zabar's or is that another kook?

Yes. She had several locations throughout the city. For awhile she was in front of Zabars and for several weeks also at Broadway and West 79th. And I saw her several times in the Village.

I once sat near her on a crosstown bus. She was talking very loudly to another woman. A man turned around to look at her and she screamed out, “You have no right to look at me.”

NYC icon Muffie Potter Aston.

Pizza Rat