Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz likes to frame his story as one of rags to riches, a classic tale. “I grew up in the projects in Brooklyn, New York. Boyce and Schultz both grew up in the Bay View Houses of Brooklyn’s Canarsie neighborhood in the 1950s and ’60s. At that time, the housing development was considered the “country club” of projects, Boyce told HuffPost. During Schultz’s childhood, the Bay View Houses were “kind of a stepping stone to suburbs and higher-quality housing,” Bloom said.

Source: Huffington Post February 13, 2019 11:00 UTC