User:Ira Leviton

Hi, I'm Ira Leviton. Even if I were to try to keep my name a secret, I realize how easy it is to find out, and since I haven't done anything wrong and I'm not paranoid, I make no effort to hide.

The basics

 * I'm the only Ira Leviton in the world.
 * I was born July 22, 1959 in Brooklyn, N.Y.
 * I was named for my father's father,  who was born the year after the death of the first Gerrer Rebbe, Yitzchak Meir Alter, and named for him, so I can trace my name back to 1799.
 * I've lived in New York City for my entire life and am proud of that. Twenty years in Brooklyn, sixteen years in the Bronx, and currently in my twenty-eighth year in Manhattan.  (Perhaps it's time to move to Queens or Staten Island?  Nahhhhh...)
 * I'm a medical doctor specializing in infectious diseases. I work for Montefiore Hospital and am on the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
 * Some of my information, philosophy, and outlook is summarized in the user boxes below. I'll make more user boxes for other things that I think are important... some day.  Feel free to contact me via my talk page.

Why I became a Wikipedia editor
I became a Wikipedian to create a page for Disco Freddy as a personal challenge. Shortly afterward, I noticed an obvious error on the page for Hans Schmidt, the only priest to be executed for murder in the U.S. – it stated that he was buried at Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens. I knew that was impossible, because it's a Jewish cemetery, although because the cemetery is still active, I called to confirm that he wasn't there. (Yes, I know, no original research allowed...) After that, I continued to fix grammatical and occasional factual errors that I noticed, add references when they were needed, and occasionally create new pages. I believe in disseminating knowledge and information, and that whenever possible, knowledge and access to it should be free. (I'm not saying that teachers or professors shouldn't be paid, or that students should be able attend any school they want to, or that books should be free, but I think it's always a good thing when knowledge can be created or distributed at no cost.) I add facts, links, and references, correct errors, and try to improve the delivery of information on pages I read.

You can find all my user subpages by clicking here: see Ira's subpages.


 * Benjamin Gladstone
 * Bertram L. Baker
 * Bronx County District Attorney
 * Bronx Walk of Fame
 * Charles B. McLaughlin
 * Charles J. McCormack
 * Chloé Webster
 * Commissioner of Health of the City of New York
 * Congregation Shaare Zedek Cemetery
 * Constantin Iancovescu
 * Daniel V. Sullivan
 * Dennis Edwards Jr.
 * Disco Freddy
 * District Attorney of Richmond County (New York)
 * Edward J. Glennon
 * Eric Gonzalez (lawyer)
 * Francis W. Martin
 * Frank Mulzoff
 * Harry Lorraine (English actor)
 * Harry Wolff (American booking agent)
 * Hilda Chester
 * James W. Blake
 * Jewish Maternity Hospital
 * Johnson Lake (Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska)
 * Kings County District Attorney
 * List of centenarians (Major League Baseball players)
 * List of Jewish cemeteries in New York City
 * Michael F. Blake
 * New Montefiore Cemetery
 * Pamela Harris (American politician)
 * Paolo Poduje
 * Pete Emelianchik
 * Richmond County District Attorney
 * Roscoe McGowen
 * Samuel J. Foley (district attorney)
 * Tina Levitan


 * Bronx County District Attorneys
 * John Dewey High School alumni
 * Kings County District Attorneys


 * Bronx County District Attorneys
 * Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
 * Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
 * Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
 * Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York
 * Jewish cemeteries in New York City
 * Staten Island Borough President

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