Early Life
Green was born in Brooklyn, New York. Green lived in Bensonhurst until he was three and then moved to Long Island, first to Elmont, New York and later Great Neck, New York. Both his parents were Republicans, his father was a lawyer and small-time apartment landlord and his mother was a public-school teacher. He graduated from Great Neck South High School in Great Neck, New York in 1963. He graduated from Cornell University in 1967 and from Harvard Law School in 1970, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Green is Jewish. He has one brother, real estate developer Stephen L. Green.
In 1977, Green married Deni Frand, later the director of the New York City office of liberal interest group, People for the American Way and also a senior associate at the Aol-Time Warner Foundation and the Citi Foundation. They have two children, Jenya and Jonah. He was previously married to Lynn Heineman.
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