Most mornings, style maven Debra Rapaport wakes up in her Manhattan apartment and gets ready to post her colorful, fashionably maximalist fits to Instagram, where she boasts 109,000 avid followers and counting.

On Thursday nights, Gerald Delet and James Valentino can be found taking their places at a popular local nightspot, where they’re always sure to be the center of attention. Meanwhile, entrepreneur, author, rapper and performer Lisa Carroll, in between dreaming up new ideas, is celebrating a new book launch.

They’re some of New York’s coolest residents, but they’re far from Gen Z. In fact, they’re old enough to be the great-grandparents of Gotham’s youngest trendsetters. Textile artist and stylista Rapoport is 80, retirees Valentino and Delet are 82 and 89, respectively, and form

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