Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan
Howard Golden was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn in 1925. His father ran a delicatessen. Howard grew up in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan and Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School, New York University, and attended Brooklyn Law School on the G.I. Bill, graduating in 1958. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was part of the Normandy Invasion on June 6, 1944.