ANDREW FRIEDMAN: A Life of
Friends
When
Andrew Friedman's wife was planning his memorial service
in Woodbury, on Long Island, she called the local police
to ask for help directing the traffic because she had a
feeling a lot of people would attend.
The police thought Lisa Friedman was overreacting. But
as it turned out, more than 2,000 people showed up to
remember Mr. Friedman, 44, vice president for
institutional equities trading at Carr Futures. His life
had been filled with friends he had known from the age of
6, college friends, work friends and neighborhood
friends.
"He was the glue that held everybody together," said
Ms. Friedman, who met her husband at a bar in TriBeCa
when she was in college. (The two easily spotted one
another, as he was 6 foot 4 and she 6 foot 1, although
they always disagreed over which one of them had
approached the other.)
What struck many people about Mr. Friedman, who
coached several boys' sports teams on Long Island, was
how much he loved children, especially his 11-year-old
twin boys, Michael and Daniel. He was also known for his
laid-back ways and his "Andrewisms," sayings that only he
could devise. One was his definition of a balanced meal:
"An Italian hero cut in half."
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