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I was born just after the Second World War in the Borough of Manhattan, New York City. Later I lived for many years in the Bronx where my great-grandparents had settled in the mid-19th century while it was still part of Westchester County. My children were born in the Bronx and lived as infants in their great-great-grandparents' house.

I now live in Forest Hills, in New York City's Borough of Queens, with my wife, Irene.

For many years I was a NYC schoolteacher. One assignment had been teaching high school subjects to students who were on home instruction as they were too ill to physically attend school.

Now I am a Special Collections Volunteer at New York's American Museum of Natural History.