Far less known than New York developers like Donald Trump or Mort Zuckerman, Silverstein finds himself in the position to create and own a New York landmark, and in the process become a billionaire.

FORBES: Master Builder

Forbes has chronicled Helmsley's feud with the other egomaniacal real estate mogel in New York, Donald Trump.

FORBES: Magazine Article

"He's kind of like Howard Hughes meets Donald Trump, " observes New York art advisor Neal Meltzer.

FORBES: Smart Collecting

New York public relations man Donald Middleberg is building a business selling advice on how to handle Internet-related problems.

FORBES: Lawsuit.com

The project is being developed by Trump Group, a conglomerate controlled by brothers Eddie and Jules Trump, sons of a tailor from Pretoria, South Africa, who came to the U.S. in 1974 and are no relation to New York real-estate magnate Donald Trump.

WSJ: Miami Condo Loan Marks Milestone

Donald Landry and his team at Columbia University in New York have also developed antibodies to cocaine, but with a twist.

ECONOMIST: New drugs for old habits

The brash Donald Trump, now riding high on a strong New York market (and a television show), got overextended in the early 1990s and almost lost everything.

FORBES: The Master Builder

New York has never managed, as Chicago has, to make Donald Trump use a different architect in exchange for a prime site.

WSJ: New York Stadium Deals: Good and Bad

After more than 24 straight hours of negotiations, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union executive director Donald Fehr announced the agreement shortly before dawn to a scrum of bleary-eyed reporters in New York City ( Watch the video).

FORBES: Hockey Is Back: NHL And Players Reach Tentative Deal, Ending Lockout

Donald Boyd of the Rockefeller Institute of Government, the public-policy research arm of the State University of New York, found that in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s state tax revenues declined at about the same rate as the national economy.

ECONOMIST: State fiscal crises may deepen America's downturn