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Leonard Stephen Riggio was born in New York City on February 28, 1941. [5] [6] [7] [a] He attended Brooklyn Technical High School, graduating in 1958, followed by evening classes at New York University. [5] [6] His father, Steve Riggio, was a professional boxer who twice defeated Rocky Graziano. [5] [9]
Aug 31, 2024 · Born in 1941, Riggio was raised in the working-class neighbourhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. His father was a taxi driver and former prizefighter with radical social views, his mother a...
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Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio was born in 1941 in New York. For much of his childhood, he was raised in Brooklyn. After he graduated high school, he took night classes at New York University.
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May 7, 2016 · Born and raised in New York City, Riggio didn't dream about going into the bookselling industry during his years at Brooklyn Technical High School. He'd set out to study engineering, but...
Aug 27, 2024 · A true son of New York, Mr. Riggio was born in Manhattan's Little Italy before spending his formative years in Brooklyn where he attended Brooklyn Technical High School, which he...
Aug 30, 2024 · Leonard Stephen Riggio was born on Feb. 28, 1941, on Mott Street in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan and grew up in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
Aug 27, 2024 · Leonard Riggio, a brash, self-styled underdog who transformed the publishing industry by building Barnes & Noble into the country’s most powerful bookseller before his company was overtaken by...
