"Wiseguy", Chicago Tribune, March 17, 1986. Accessed June 21, 2024. "But certainly Karen Fried [sic] Hill, from Lawrence, L.I., had no reason to believe that she would wind up in the middle of a grade-B movie."
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Sullivan, Eric. "'I'm Not the Morality Police': Inside Benjamin Brafman’s Defense of Harvey Weinstein", Esquire, January 14, 2019. Accessed June 21, 2024. "Twice a week, Brafman wakes at sunrise and greets his personal trainer at the door of his large Colonial home in Lawrence, New York, on the South Shore of Long Island, just past JFK. The area, known as the Five Towns, is a collection of affluent communities that has become an enclave for Orthodox Jews like Brafman."
Hoeflinger, Jane. "The Rise of Long Island Teen: Lil Tecca", Horizon Online, November 6, 2019. Accessed December 31, 2023. "In a matter of only four months, the name 'Lil Tecca' has become ubiquitous on a national level. Tyler Sharpe, only 17-years-old and hailing from Lawrence, Long Island, saw his career skyrocket after the release of his hit song “Ransom” on May 22."
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"Lawrence native Avi Berkowitz moves up in White House", Nassau Herald, October 10, 2019. Accessed June 21, 2024. "A chance meeting with Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, on a basketball court at an Arizona hotel during Passover set Lawrence native Avrahm 'Avi' Berkowitz on a path to postpone his law career and go to work in the White House."
Parker, Jerry. "Star Maker Turns Movie Maker", Newsday, June 5, 1983. Accessed June 20, 2024, via Newspapers.com. "Russo, a Brooklyn native reared in Lawrence, was a novice at management, who managed discotheques in Chicago and Detroit."
Barron, James. "If You're Thinking Of Living In: Five Towns", The New York Times, July 10, 1983. Accessed June 21, 2024. "The basic five are Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere, Hewlett and Inwood. But the area also includes some unincorporated communities and two tiny villages, Hewlett Bay Park and Woodsburgh, that are not added to the final total."
Fischler, Marcelle S. "Living In: Portrait of a Village at 100", The New York Times, December 30, 2009. Accessed June 21, 2024. "Cedarhurst is part of the once highly regarded Lawrence Union Free School District 15, which also includes Lawrence, Inwood, Atlantic Beach and parts of Woodsburgh, Woodmere and North Woodmere."
Klemesrud, Judy. "This Song and Dance Routine Is Really a Class in Anatomy", The New York Times, April 16, 1975. Accessed July 13, 2017. "And he is 'Mr. Slim Goodbody', a 25‐year‐old singing, dancing, one-man anatomy class.... His real name is John Burstein, and he is the self-styled 'black sheep' of his achievement‐oriented family of six children from Lawrence, L.I."
Fisher, Ian. "Burstein Brings an Edge to Attorney General's Race", The New York Times, August 7, 1994. Accessed March 2, 2016. "Ms. Burstein, the oldest of six children, grew up in Baldwin and Lawrence, L.I., and attended the Woodmere Academy, becoming the school's first female president of the student body."
Berkvist, Robert. "'Bored? Creatively I'm Bored, But...'", The New York Times, March 19, 1972. Accessed March 2, 2016. "She wrinkles her nose at her affluent upbringing ('upper middle-class Jewish') in Lawrence, Long Island, and notes that he father a well-to-do lawyer, helped her break into modeling when she was 16."
Lyall, Sarah. "Film; 'Amongst Friends' Tops Off a Journey Of Self-Discovery", The New York Times, July 18, 1993; Accessed December 31, 2023. "Born in Baldwin, near the Five Towns, Mr. Weiss dropped out of the Parsons School of Design, where he studied fashion, then film. He found himself out of work and living goallessly back at his divorced father's house in Lawrence, smack in the Five Towns."
Fischler, Marcelle. "Nascent Hall of Fame to Welcome First Honorees", The New York Times, October 15, 2006. Accessed December 31, 2023. "Dee Snider of Stony Brook, the shock-rocker from the 1980's heavy metal band Twisted Sister, known for his defiant metal anthem 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' and Leslie West of the band Mountain, who grew up in East Meadow, Lawrence and Forest Hills, are also being inducted."
Burrough, Bryan. "Marc Dreier’s Crime of Destiny", Vanity Fair, September 29, 2009. Accessed July 13, 2017. "Marc Stuart Dreier was born in 1950 and grew up in Lawrence, Long Island, one of the fabled, affluent 'Five Towns'."
