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Edward Irving Koch (/ k ɒ tʃ / KOTCH; December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American politician, lawyer, political commentator, film critic, and television personality. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1977 and was mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.. Koch was a lifelong Democrat who described himself as a "liberal with sanity".
Jun 7, 2024 · Ask a Question Ask a Question Ed Koch (born December 12, 1924, Bronx, New York, U.S.—died February 1, 2013, New York City) was an American politician who served as mayor of New York City (1978–89) and was known for his tenacity and brashness.. After serving in the army during World War II, Koch graduated from New York University Law School (1948).He subsequently practiced law, becoming a ...
Feb 1, 2013 · Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of ...
Feb 1, 2013 · Ed Koch speaks at the renaming of the Queensboro Bridge in his honor in May 2011. The brash former New York mayor died Friday, February 1, of congestive heart failure at 88, his spokesman said.
Feb 1, 2013 · Steven R. Weisman, The Times’s City Hall bureau chief and Albany bureau chief during the Koch era, offered these memories: I first met Ed Koch when assigned to cover a group of politicians speaking at a political club in Far Rockaway on a bitterly cold winter evening in the early 1970s, and he was irrepressible even then.
Feb 1, 2013 · Former New York City Mayor Edward Irving Koch, a man as colorful as the city he helped save from financial ruin, died Friday of congestive heart failure.
May 8, 2022 · Missing in action. Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, had a bombastic style that defined the image of a big-city leader in the 1980s. But as open as Koch could be, my colleagues Matt ...
Feb 1, 2013 · An obituary for New York's outspoken former mayor, Ed Koch, who has died in hospital aged 88.
Feb 1, 2013 · Ed Koch, the firebrand three-term mayor of New York City who died early Friday morning, will be remembered for the stamp he left on the five boroughs. Two scholars of Gotham’s history talked to TIME about Koch’s legacy, his sense of humor and his regular gaffes. On New York City in 1978, when Koch became mayor:
Feb 1, 2013 · Ed Koch, the colorful three-term mayor who led New York City through its financial crisis in the '70s, has died. George Arzt, a spokesman for the former mayor, tells NPR's Joel Rose that Koch died ...
