List of Famous people born in New York City, United States of America

Peter J. Neufeld is an American lawyer, cofounder, with Barry Scheck, of the Innocence Project, and a founding partner in the civil rights law firm Neufeld Scheck & Brustin. Starting from his earliest years as an attorney representing clients at New York's Legal Aid Society, and teaching trial advocacy at Fordham School of Law from 1988–1991, he has focused on civil rights and the intersection of science and criminal justice.

Alimi Ballard is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as FBI agent David Sinclair on the CBS police procedural Numb3rs. Ballard recently starred in the ABC legal thriller The Catch.

Richard N. Gladstein is a two-time Academy Award nominated film producer. His production company is FilmColony. He served as the Dean of the American Film Institute Conservatory from 2017–2018.

Robert Mark Kamen is an American screenwriter, film producer and winemaker best known as creator and co-creator of The Karate Kid, Transporter and Taken franchises. He now produces wine from his vineyards near Sonoma, California.

Lenny Kaye is an American guitarist, composer, and writer who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith Group.

Paul Michael Kelly was an American stage, film, and television actor. His career survived a manslaughter conviction, tied to an affair, that caused him to spend time in prison in the late 1920s.