First raised at 76-22 249th Street in Glen Oaks Village, Bellerose, New York. After the birth of his younger siblings the family moved to a house on Bergenfield Drive in East Williston, LongvIsland, New York in the mid-1950s.
Father Malcolm (b. 21 December 1916)was the manager of a cleaning factory, mother Edna graduated from Barnard College with a psychology degree. They married in 1946.