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I grew up in Brooklyn.

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 went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

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

I live in Brooklyn. I moved here 14 years ago for the cheap rent. It was a little embarrassing because I was raised in Manhattan, and so I was a bit of a snob about the other boroughs.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.