Early Years
Schrager grew up in a Jewish family in Brooklyn. His father Louis owned a factory in Long Branch, New Jersey. which manufactured women’s coats and died when Schrager was 19. His mother Blanche died when he was 23. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in 1968 and a Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law in 1971. In December 1975, after practicing law for three years, Schrager and his close friend Steve Rubell opened Enchanted Garden, a disco in Douglaston, Queens. Within 6 months, they were looking to open a night club in Manhattan. They signed the lease for Studio 54 in January 1977 and 6 weeks later it opened.
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“I believe that if we are to survive as a planet, we must teach this next generation to handle their own conflicts assertively and nonviolently. If in their early years our children learn to listen to all sides of the story, use their heads and then their mouths, and come up with a plan and share, then, when they become our leaders, and some of them will, they will have the tools to handle global problems and conflict.”
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