Ed Koch Dead: Mayor Who Became A Symbol Of NYC Dies At 88 (PHOTOS)

For many New Yorkers who knew the city pre-yuppification, pre-Giuliani, and pre-Bloomberg, Ed Koch wasn't just a sometimes engaging, sometimes irritating presence in the newspapers and on the radio and television—he

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

NEW YORK — When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of

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