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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, a little-known side of Jef- he says, a porter told him a story about frey Epstein. The porter’s wile, who lived in South America, des- perately needed an organ transplant. Epstein paid for the properties in operation. “That's just typical,” Grossberg says. “That's who he always was, long as I knew him.” “| afayette 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.” But Epstein seems to have ma buddies—who called him Eppy—could While they hung out on the beach, Epstein p homework. Worked on his prized stamp collection. Innocent times. de friends easily. Even then, his © see he was special. 7 layed the piano. Did © Jeffrey Epstein: 1¢ ‘ ts the height of tl q lege administrator q long hair collide \ go in for any of that. q math classes at Coor q Village where Abraha 7 Thanks to a gene! q though the applicatio 4 Epstein sails thro : At Harvard or Yal ts ks like the Brookly oan any Ivy League : aie from his prodig to make money moves Cooper Un HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022061