Early Life
Moran was born on October 3, 1884 in Manhattan on East Twenty-First Street. He was the second of six children born to Eugene (b. 1856) and Delia Moran (formerly Fitzpatrick) (b. 1860). His father, a native of Greenwich Village and for many years a sergeant in the New York Parks Police Department, died in the typhoid epidemic of 1912. After Eugene’s death, the family moved to 1486 St. Lawrence Street in The Bronx. The family would later move to 1565 Leland Avenue in The Bronx, where Moran would reside until his death in 1954.
Robert Moran was educated in the public schools of his native city. As a young man he attended Public School 100 in The Bronx before leaving to take a factory job. He took real estate courses at the Young Men’s Christian Association and attended night school at New York University for two years. Moran entered the real estate business in The Bronx and among the many operations with which he was connected was the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Apartments on the Grand Concourse.
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