100 notables and interesting residents of my Brooklyn neighborhood.
CHARLES BLOW because as the New York Times' visual Op-Ed columnist and an award-winning art director, you bring a decidedly graphic style to that page, a great writing style and a distinctive point of view.JOHN HODGMAN because you play the PC guy in those funny Apple commercials and we love your hilarious, and completely fake, trivia books (“The Areas of My Expertise” and the new “More Information than You Require”), your regular appearances as the resident expert on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and your description of Park Slope as a "utopian commune ruled by children."
LENORE SKENAZY because you did the unthinkable: you let your 8-year-old son ride the subway home from a department store on the Upper East Side. You didn't expect to get hit with a tsunami of criticism from readers. But you did and you handled it well; you even came out to Park Slope to tell the tale.
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