"I ended up living in Rockaway as an adult when my family moved out of Brownsville New York, which is a poor area…It was very desolate out there [in the winter]. Only two or three families on the block, the rest was deserted until the summer. I'd take nice long walks on the beach with my dad, which were wonderful moments. It was a happy existence both as a kid, I have nice memories, and as an adult. I would have liked a little better living conditions for my parents, but now that I look back we all had a good time and it was very happy and for my father as a cop it was a big thing to own a house at that time."

Larry Raisfeld