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My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I grew up in Far Rockaway and then Long Island.

I grew up in Brooklyn.

On a personal note, I was born in Brooklyn. My folks moved out to Long Island when I was quite young, but once a Brooklynite, always a Brooklynite.

When I grew up, I was in Manhattan the whole time. But my kids have been all over the world.

I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside.

My sister died in Brooklyn.