Len Berman, born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn, grew up on the concrete pavement of Pitkin Avenue close to the Euclid Avenue subway stop.¿ This ethnically mixed, blue-collar neighborhood, also provided the real-life people and background for the film, Goodfellas. After graduating from Brooklyn College in 1961, his professional career began as an English, drama, and humanities teacher, sixth grade through twelfth, for the New York City Board of Education.¿ In 1969 he was invited by the New Jersey State Department of Education to be their State Consultant in Arts and Humanities.¿ He continued his career with the department for twenty-seven years retiring in 1996 as a School's Program Coordinator supervising and nurturing seven school systems through regulatory processes.¿ His career continued as an educational consultant, as a teacher of Judaica, as a writer, and as an advocate.¿ He had two children with his first wife, and his second marriage in 1984 brought him three additional children.¿ These five outstanding professional children presented him with nine outstanding and ¿brilliant grandchildren.
