The son of a real estate investor, Spitzer was raised in the upscale Riverdale section of the Bronx, attended the Horace Mann School, and collected a B.

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Many residents are also attracted to the area by the proximity of several well-regarded private schools, including the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Riverdale Country Day School and the Horace Mann School.

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The Bronx district attorney's office and the New York Police Department launched an investigation into allegations of abuse at The Horace Mann School after a New York Times Magazine article last summer that said the academy was plagued by teachers who sexually abused children in the 1970s.

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He attended the elite Horace Mann School in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard College in 1948.

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Eliot Spitzer grew up in the tony Riverdale section of the Bronx, where he attended the Horace Mann prep school.

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When I was in high school, at Horace Mann, in the Bronx, in the nineteen-seventies, everyone took pride in the brilliant eccentricity of our teachers.

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He graduated from Horace Mann School, received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

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Although investigators were told that abuse allegations were brought "to the attention of school officials without law enforcement being notified" at Horace Mann, that is legal under New York's current law.

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