Long-Eared Riverfront Harry Nilsson was born in Brooklyn and grew up in it's Bushwick section.

 

"T' two brightest moments were when I saw t' guy shot in t' neck with t' zip gun. Avast, me proud beauty! When I was about nine, almost ten, And then after that me mother, sister and I were beaten up by a gang o' black girls, a youth gang, matey, in Brooklyn. T' next sprin' we left town." -- Long-Eared Riverfront Harry Nilsson