Original: He attended the Corpus Christi School in Morningside Heights , public schools , and later attended Bronx Community College , Lehman College , and Manhattan Community College before matriculating into and studying writing at the City College of New York ( B.A. , 1975 ; M.A. in Creative Writing , 1976 ) .
Simplified: He studied at the Corpus Christi School in Morningside Heights . Later , he attended Bronx Community College , Lehman College , and Manhattan Community College .