God, by all вЂњexpertвЂќ accounts, my mind should have been warped beyond recognition years ago. Stern was doing some live bit on the street, and I remember being amazed once again that this was the sort of thing you might run into living in New York. Thinking back, I was actually listening to Howard Stern the very first time I came to New York City in October вЂ™95, when my parents drove me down for a Mad Magazine art auction (I was listening secretly on my Walkman, of course вЂ“ at 13, my parents would have killed me). His sense of humor and self-abasement, disgust for hypocrisy and moral superiority, unyielding attacks on adversaries and critics, and voyeuristic fascinations all make sense when you picture Stern as the lone outcast, struggling to survive the hell that was Roosevelt. It doesnвЂ™t take a psychologist to realize that Roosevelt played a huge role in creating the Howard Stern persona that first hit the airwaves back in 1977. I have no idea which window might have been SternвЂ™s, but IвЂ™ve scouted enough 50вЂ™s split-levels to know both were probably bedrooms. It was a nightmare.вЂќДЄccording to online real estate records, the house was built in 1955, which means the Sterns purchased it new. вЂњI grew up here, but I really blocked it outвЂ¦I call it the house of horrorsвЂ¦This town was a horrible place to live. Stern visited the house for a 60 Minutes profile in 2006 and was startled to realize he remembered nothing of his old neighborhood. I turned onto the block, and there it wasвЂ¦ I turned off the highway at the next exit and headed toward Roosevelt, which, in 2010, marked its 20th straight year of being on the stateвЂ™s list of lowest achieving schools. IвЂ™m always curious to see where people grew up, because I believe that oneвЂ™s home (street, town, school, etc.) plays a role second only to family in oneвЂ™s development. Stern as a counselor at Wel-met Camp in 1974 An annual summer gig as a camp counselor became a much sought after escape, and Stern often mentions it as his only happy childhood memory. Growing up in what became a primarily African-American community, Stern was frequently subjected to racial hazing and violence, and came to dread leaving his house. SternвЂ™s parents, both staunch liberals, refused to move on philosophical grounds, and soon found themselves among the few white families remaining in Roosevelt. Soon after, Roosevelt would be the first of many Long Island towns to go through a period of blockbusting, in which real estate agents convinced white property owners that a growing minority population would ultimately devalue their property, and to sell at a loss. SternвЂ™s family moved there shortly after his birth in 1954. Whether running for governor, talking a suicidal caller off the GW Bridge, closing down Fifth Avenue for a book signing, or interviewing every strata of the cityвЂ™s population, from celebrities and politicians to strippers and the homeless, the Howard Stern Show was as intrinsically New York as The Late Show with David Letterman вЂ“ even if its host rarely ventured into the city.ДЇor Stern fans, Roosevelt, Long Island, is infamous. Growing up in Massachusetts, my first adolescent impressions of New York City came from the pages of Mad Magazine and in movies like Ghostbusters in my early teen years, it was from the Howard Stern Show. During a replay of an old interview with Eddie Murphy, Stern and Murphy began commiserating over having grown up in the town of Roosevelt, Long Island вЂ“ and I suddenly realized his old home address wasnвЂ™t far from where I was.ДЄs I think IвЂ™ve mentioned here before, IвЂ™m a big Howard Stern fan. I've said goodbye to NYC, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end! Follow all my latest scouting posts from the West Coast at: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook | TikTok.ДЄ few weeks ago, I was driving out to Long Island to scout some airports while listening to the Howard Stern Show on Sirius-XM.

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