NYT Report Traces Jeffrey Epstein's Boyhood to Sea Gate at Age 6
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 23
NYT Report Traces Jeffrey Epstein's Boyhood to Sea Gate at Age 6
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 23
Summary
A New York Times investigation reconstructs Jeffrey Epstein’s early years after his family moved to Sea Gate in Coney Island when he was about 6.
Interviews with cousins, classmates, friends and neighbors, along with thousands of emails and other documents, depict a working- and middle-class Jewish enclave where Epstein formed friendships that lasted for most of his life.
The report says Epstein’s father earned less than $8,000 a year as a New York City Parks Department laborer, while the family of four lived in a small rental apartment inside a three-story house on Maple Avenue.
Accounts from relatives and neighbors describe a teenage Epstein—nicknamed “Bear”—reading math textbooks, listening to Beethoven and growing up inside Sea Gate’s insulated, privately patrolled community.
That setting contrasted with the demolition, white flight and racial tensions reshaping the surrounding west end of Coney Island during the 1960s.