Just across the street were the oldest brownstones in the area, owned by people including the well-connected Loew Brothers and William Orth. It was populated with European immigrants, mostly artisans. His older brother Harpo, in his memoir Harpo Speaks, called the building 'the first real home I knew'. The Marx children grew up in a turn-of-the-century building at 179 East 93rd Street off Lexington Avenue in a neighborhood now known as Carnegie Hill on the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan. Marx stated that he was born in a room above a butcher's shop on East 78th Street, 'Between Lexington & 3rd', as he told Dick Cavett in a 1969 television interview.

Julius Henry Marx was born on October 2, 1890, in Manhattan, New York City. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the most recognizable and ubiquitous novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses: a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, a large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, spectacles, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache (later a real mustache) and eyebrows.

He also had a successful solo career primarily on radio and television, most notably as the host of the game show You Bet Your Life. He made 13 feature films as a team with his brothers, who performed under the name the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He was a master of quick wit and is generally considered to have been one of America's greatest comedians. Julius Henry ' Groucho' Marx ( / ˈ ɡ r aʊ tʃ oʊ/ Octo– August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, actor, writer, and singer who performed in film, television, radio, stage, and vaudeville.

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