Neil Simon, Stephen Sondheim, Ethel Merman & More Named to 'New York City 400'

The Museum of the City of New York announced its picks for the 400 most notable movers and shakers since the city’s founding in 1609, when Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor. The so-called “New York City 400” includes names from the worlds of politics, business, sports, science and, of course, theater. We scanned through the (long) list to see which Broadway stagefolk made the cut:

Woody Allen
Harold Arlen
Brooks Atkinson
John Barrymore
David Belasco
Irving Berlin
Leonard Bernstein
Eubie Blake
Fanny Brice
Mel Brooks
George M. Cohan
Sean “Diddy” Combs
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Duke Ellington
Bob Fosse
George Gershwin
Jackie Gleason
Oscar Hammerstein II
Elia Kazan
Larry Kramer
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Ethel Merman
Arthur Miller
Eugene O’Neill
Clifford Odets
Joseph Papp
Molly Picon
Cole Porter
Jerome Robbins
Paul Robeson
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Richard Rodgers
Lillian Russell
Levi “Lee” Shubert
Neil Simon
Stephen Sondheim
Sophie Tucker
Ethel Waters
Mae West
Tennessee Williams
Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.

The museum's goal in creating the New York City 400 is to help educate the public about New York City's fascinating and dramatic history and its heritage of diversity, opportunity and perpetual transformation.