Background
Greenberg was born in 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the New York City borough"s Brownsville neighborhood.
Greenberg was born in 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the New York City borough"s Brownsville neighborhood.
He attended Samuel J. Tilden High School in East Flatbush.
Greenberg later became the vice president and chief operating officer of the Snapple Corporation and retired after the 1994 acquisition of the brand to Quaker Oats. His father owned a store in Manhattan"s East Village located on First Avenue near Saint Mark"s Place. The store sold mainstays of the city"s traditional Jewish cuisine, including pickles, herring and lox.
Arnold Greenberg was running the day-to-day operations of his father"s store by the 1950s.
Greenberg changed the business into a health food store in the 1960s as the neighborhood transitioned from largely Jewish into a hippie enclave. Greenberg died from a long battle with cancer in New York City on October 26, 2012, at the age of 80.
A resident of Delray Beach, Florida, Greenberg also kept homes in Southampton, New York and Manhattan.