I was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and lived in a house on Bath Avenue for the first two years of my life.  My parents bought that particular house because there was plenty of space for my older brother and I, and it was across the street from my grandmother who was happy to watch us while my parents went to work. After a while my parents decided they wanted to raise their family further away from the city; somewhere quieter and more suburban, so we packed up and moved to Staten Island.