Mortality Immortality

At Chookie’s Luncheonette in the 1950s, a teenage David Geffen used to hang out with his pals from New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn, drinking egg creams and gizmos, listening to Bobby Darin and Paul Anka on the jukebox.

Mr. Geffen is using his wealth to put his stamp on his home city, much as he did with the music business. He has come a long way from Borough Park, a mostly Italian and Jewish enclave where he lived with his family in a six-story brick apartment building on 15th Avenue.

“There is a maturity when you realize you are no longer mortal.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/fashion/david-geffen-new-york-new-utrecht-philanthropy.html