Bill Clinton to speak at Ed Koch's funeral

In the late 1970s when Edward I. Koch won his first term as mayor of New York, the city was in shambles, its coffers and confidence sapped by financial crises and a paralyzing blackout. It needed a fighter and found one in Koch, a well-practiced pol

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I WAS almost scripted to hate Ed Koch from the moment in September 1977 when I moved, with a new Harvard doctorate, to Brooklyn, on what would become a long activist-writer's foray into the city's fiscal crisis and the effects of that summer's power

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Former New York City mayor Ed Koch will live forever through several animated appearances.