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Feb 1, 2013 · On Koch as the embodiment of New York: Jonathan Soffer, associate professor of history at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University: He was a great champion of the city. It was clear to...
Koch was first elected mayor of New York City in 1977 and was re-elected in 1981 with 75% of the vote. He was the first New York City mayor to win endorsement on both the Democratic and Republican party tickets. In 1985, Koch was elected to a third term with 78% of the vote.
Feb 2, 2013 · 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...
Feb 4, 2013 · Ed Koch was elected mayor of New York City in 1977 by being fresh, honest, optimistic and independent. By the time he lost, in a 1989 bid for a 4th term, voters had tired of corruption...
Feb 1, 2013 · Koch became active as an opponent of Tammany Hall, the Democratic political machine that had dominated New York since the 19th century.
Feb 1, 2013 · Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued New York City from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied the city's chutzpah for the rest of the world, died Friday. He was 88.
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In Koch, a high-pitched, hotheaded, in-your-face Jew from Queens, New York found its transitional figure, the lumpen leader who helped transform the city to the one we see today.
