ERSON ag 301 East 66th Street. He ; to join him? He did.” ups and downs. At one point, y the Epstein brothers. There, bout a little-known side of Jef- | 0 lived in South America, des- splant. Epstein paid for the | CHAPTER 21 :g says. “That's who he always | . 's another old classmate, James : Jeffrey Epstein: 1969-1976 was nothing special about it.” _ stal worker. He lives in South ; : tein, he'd grown up in Sea Gate. i ; t’s the height of the Vietnam War. Students collide with at Lafayette,” Rosen recalls. “It a | administrators. Hippies collide with hard hi ; asel = at one time, 90 percent Italian. : a long hair collide with their parents. Jeffrey E . ; ; ow vs moved in, and there was : 4 go in for any of that. At the age of sixteen * em svat - rt want the Jews to be there.” 4 a il: dassesac Cooper Union, an august stitutio ne a vanes’ in, too, he remembers, and His- 7 | Village where Abraham Lincoln once spoke see the animosity was aimed at Jews. q 4 Thanks to a generous endowment, the echnel — schools. They thought we Wels , q though the application process is fancy ri orous minone os Epstein sails through it. “_ sade friends easily. Even then, his — 4 At Harvard or Yale, his accent would give him py —could see he was special. 4 : ‘ tawks like the Brooklyn boy he is. But Cooper Unio ‘em a ich, Epstein played the piano. Did 4 than any Ivy League school. It’s full of a fom ; 5 on art ‘ed stamp collection. | aside from his prodigious intellect, Epstein doesn't seat tHe : 1 = Bey by tutoring his fellow students. And in 1971, : ooper Union for the greener pastures of New York - : ’ 93 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022062