The 100 Greatest Brooklynites of All Time: 80 to 71
Not many people remember Jerry Stiller for Stiller and Meara, the comedy team he had with his wife, Anne Meara, also the mother of his two children, including Ben Stiller. You probably know him for his two roles as a crazy old man from Queens, either as Jason Alexander’s father on Seinfeld, or Kevin James’s on King of Queens. Though associated with our sister borough to the east, Stiller was born in Brooklyn, living in Williamsburg and East New York before the family moved when he was 12 to the Lower East Side.