Jeffrey Epstein grew up in Sea Gate, a gated neighborhood on the western edge of Coney Island in Brooklyn. Sources also describe it more broadly as south Brooklyn, but Sea Gate is the more specific answer.

Where in Brooklyn

  • Sea Gate, Coney Island is the neighborhood most often identified as his childhood home.
  • It is a private, gated community at the far western end of Coney Island.
  • He later attended high school in Gravesend , another Brooklyn neighborhood.

Context

Epstein’s upbringing there was described as middle-class, not wealthy, and his family lived in a Jewish enclave in the area. The neighborhood references in reporting are consistent on Sea Gate, even when they use “south Brooklyn” or “Coney Island” more generally.

TL;DR: Sea Gate, Coney Island, Brooklyn.