James PATTERSON
Manhattan, including 301 Fast 66th Street. He
asked his brother—did Mark want to join him? He did.” Grossberg himself has had his ups and downs. At one point,
he worked in a building owned by the Epstein brothers. There,
he says, a porter told him a story about a little-known side of Jef who lived in South America, des-
lant. Epstein paid for the
properties in
frey Epstein. The porter’s wile, perately needed an organ transp
operation.
“That's just typical,” Grossberg says. “That's who he always
was, long as I knew him.”
“Lafayette was a city school,” says another old classmate, James
“It was functional. There was nothing special about it.” James Rosen is a retired postal worker. He lives in South
Florida now, but, like Jeffrey Epstein, he'd grown up in Sea Gate.
“There was a lot of volatility at Lafayette,” Rosen recalls. “It
area that was, at one time, 90 percent Italian. and there was
Rosen.
was a blue-collar Then a small amount of Jews moved in, anti-Semitism. The Italians didn’t want the Jews to be there.” Black families were moving in, too, he remembers, and His- ones. But he says most of the animosity was aimed at Jews.
panic s. They thought we were
“There were fights in the school going to take over.”
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