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Paul Pfieffer Lives!
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Jacob Dobkin
Published Mar 16, 2006
Modified Mar 7, 2008
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Back in the 1980s, when we were little nerds in Brooklyn, the Paul Pfieffer character on the Wonder Years was our patron saint. Asthmatic, near-sighted, and underweight-- he had it all, and was played with great-verve by Josh Saviano. We hadn't thought much about him in the last 20 years, but naturally assumed he went the way of all child actors and was clutching a crackpipe in some drainage ditch in the San Fernando valley. Not so! Turns out Josh turned away from Hollywood and got a law degree from Benjamin Cardozo right here in the city! Television's loss is Morrison Cohen LLP's gain. If you're in need of a corporate lawyer, give him a ring! [Via SaveManny.]
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Jake Dobkin co-founded Gothamist with Jen Chung. In 2019, Jake released Ask a Native New Yorker, a book based on his Gothamist advice column.
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