
Second of three sons, born May 1952 in Doctors Hospital, NYC: I grow up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in Knickerbocker Village, shown here in 1955 | |

Summer entertainment: take the subway to Coney Island, Brooklyn, 1955
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We move to an apartment complex in the suburbs: New Rochelle, NY (brother Kurt is on the right), 1957 |

A formal portrait is taken, spring 1958 | |

I already play, but now I start taking lessons (the left hand is for show only), circa 1958
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All the kids pose with Mom in front of the apartment house on Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle, NY (brothers Kurt and Peter left to right on the bottom row) circa 1960 |