When Larry Namer was growing up in Coney Island in the 1960s, his goal was to become a public-school teacher or work in city government.

“That was the mind set then,” said Namer , a graduate of Mark Twain JHS in Coney Island, Lincoln High School, and later attending Kingsborough Community College and Brooklyn College.

While his mother worked for the city, his father drove a truck delivering Pepsi Cola to homes in neighborhoods like nearby Bensonhurst, and Namer would sometimes accompany him.

“So, you know my parents, their whole thing was their children should get jobs in city government and retire at 65 and have a pension,” he said

But things didn’t quite work out that way.

Instead, after college Namer took a job as a splicer in the nascent cable television industry. He quickly ro

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