: ' James PATTERSON properties in 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- ; frey Epstein. The porter’s wile, who lived in South America, des- d ; perately needed an organ transplant. Epstein paid for the 3 operation. : “That’s just typical,” Grossberg says. “That's who he always 4 a was, long as I knew him.” q 4 | “| afayette was a city school,” says another old classmate, James ~ j q Jeffrey Epstein: 14 it Rosen. “It was functional. There was nothing special about it.” ; | James Rosen is a retired postal worker. He lives in South 7 a Florida now, but, like Jeffrey Epstein, he'd grown up in Sea Gate. 4 q t’s the height of tl “There was a lot of volatility at Lafayette,” Rosen recalls. “It 7 q | adininistatoi was a blue-collar area that was, at one time, 90 percent Italian. | 4 long hair collide \ Then a small amount of Jews moved in, and there was | a go in for any of that. anti-Semitism. The Italians didn’t want the Jews to be there.” j _ math classes at Coor Black families were moving in, too, he remembers, and His- i a Village where Abraha panic ones. But he says most of the animosity was aimed at Jews. : 4 Thanks to a gene: “There were fights in the schools. They thought we were — 4 though the applicatio going to take over.” a 4 Epstein sails thro But Epstein seems to have made friends easily. Even then, his — j Biarvard of-Yal buddies—who called him Eppy—could see he was special. 4 “awk like the Brookly While they hung out on the beach, Epstein played the piano. Did © than any Ivy League : homework. Worked on his prized stamp collection. ; aside from hi : Innocent times. | st rts to . ; he leaves Cooper Un 92 j 4 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022061