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May 1, 2024 · Ed Koch, American politician who served as mayor of New York City (1978–89) and was known for his tenacity and brashness. He was known for his trademark catchphrase ‘How’m I doin’?’ Learn more about Koch, including information about his three terms in office.
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Feb 2, 2013 · Ed Koch, the blunt-spoken and theatrical three-term mayor of New York City, who became a national emblem for the way New Yorkers talk and behave, often asked straphangers at...
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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...
Feb 1, 2013 · With the death on Friday of Edward I. Koch , the “little Jewish kid from the Bronx” who grew up to govern New York City through 12 of its most memorably turbulent years, remembrances of the...
Koch has had a political career spanning over 25 years beginning with being elected as the Democratic Party district leader of Greenwich Village in 1963, then serving on the New York City Council in 1965, became a Democratic U.S. Congressman for 9 years, and was elected the 105 th Mayor of New York City for three terms from 1978-1989.
May 8, 2022 · 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...
Ed Koch, who was 88 when he died on Feb. 1, was one of the greatest mayors in New York City’s long history, and his inspired public service forever changed the course of our future.
