He there joined his uncle who lived in New York and was taken care off by the Jewish Child Care Association that helped him to realize the dream he had been developing since his arrival in New York City : to become an actor.
In 1947, the Jewish Childcare Association sent Garfein to study at the Dramatic Workshop of which he had won a scholarship and who was part of the New School of Social Research at that time and became an independent school in 1949.