Editing Abraham Beame (section)

==Early life==
Beame was born Abraham David Birnbaum in [[London]].<ref name=remarks>{{cite web|url=https://www.nyc.gov/html/rwg/html/2001a/beame.html|title=Remarks at the Funeral Service for Mayor Abraham Beame|first=Rudolph W.|last=Giuliani|website=nyc.gov}}</ref> His parents were Esther (née Goldfarb) and Philip Birnbaum, Jewish immigrants from Poland who fled [[Warsaw]].<ref name=baruch>{{cite web |work=History of Baruch College |title=12 Who Made It Big: Abraham D. Beame '28 |url=https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/library/alumni/online_exhibits/digital/2001/history/exhibit/chap_09/who_made_big/made_big.htm |first=Jason |last=Marks |publisher=Baruch College, City University of New York |access-date=March 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412145021/https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/library/alumni/online_exhibits/digital/2001/history/exhibit/chap_09/who_made_big/made_big.htm |archive-date=April 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name=rhill>{{cite web |url=http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/abeame.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010803145113/http://richmondhillhistory.org/abeame.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 3, 2001 |title=New York City's first Jewish mayor |website=Richmond Hill Historical Society |access-date=March 23, 2016}}</ref> Beame and his family left England when he was three months old.<ref name=baruch /> He was raised on New York City's [[Lower East Side]].

Beame graduated from P.S. 160 and the High School of Commerce before enrolling at the [[City College of New York]]'s School of Business and Civic Administration (spun off as [[Baruch College]] in 1968), where he received his undergraduate degree in business with honors in 1928.<ref name=remarks /><ref name=baruch /><ref name=rhill />