Ed Koch - Wikipedia
WEBEdward Irving Koch (/ k ɒ tʃ / KOTCH; [1] December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013) was an American politician. 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". [2] The author of an ambitious public …
Ed Koch | Biography, Mayor, & Facts | Britannica
WEBAug 30, 2024 · 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 …
Ed Koch: 12 Years as Mayor, A Lifetime in the Closet
WEBFeb 3, 2013 · Ed Koch, New York’s mayor from 1978 through 1989, a period of enormous change for the LGBT movement, including the beginning and some of the worst years of the AIDS crisis, died on February 1 of congestive heart failure. He was 88 years old and died without ever publicly acknowledging his homosexuality. And his inaction during the …
New York’s brash former mayor, Ed Koch, dies at 88 - CNN
WEBFeb 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 ...
'Irrepressible icon': Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch dies at 88
WEBFeb 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. ... Koch died around 2 a.m. Friday after ...
Former Mayor Ed Koch Dead at 88 - NBC New York
WEBFeb 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 i n which he embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of ...
Edward I. Koch, Mayor as Brash as His City, Dies at 88 - The New York Times
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · Edward Irving Koch was born in Crotona Park East in the Bronx on Dec. 12, 1924, the second of three children of Louis and Joyce Silpe Koch, Polish Jews who had immigrated to New York separately in ...
Obituary: Ed Koch - BBC News
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · Edward Irving Koch was born in 1924 in New York's Bronx borough, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants. During the Great Depression, his family moved to Newark, New Jersey and later settled in Ocean ...
Remembering New York's Larger-Than-Life Mayor, Ed Koch
WEBFeb 2, 2013 · SIMON: Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, died yesterday at the age of 88. He was as New York as a salt bagel with an extra schmear. I profiled him when he ran for re-election in 1981.
Ed Koch, Flamboyant Former New York City Mayor, Dies
WEBFeb 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 ...
Ed Koch Dies; Outspoken Mayor Brought N.Y. Back From The Brink
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, whose larger-than-life personality was well-suited to the nation's biggest city but could also get him in trouble, has died. He was 88. His spokesman, George ...
Remembering Ed Koch - The New York Times
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · Remembering Ed Koch. On the brink of power: Ed Koch on primary day in 1977, two months before he was elected to his first term as mayor. Paul Hosefros/The New York Times. 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 …
Remembering the former New York City mayor Ed Koch's life and …
WEBDec 12, 2022 · Ed Koch, born Edward Irving Koch on Dec. 12, 1924, served as New York City's mayor from 1978 to 1989. The life-long democrat described himself as 'liberal with sanity.' On Feb. 1, 2013, Koch died ...
Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies at 88 - USA TODAY
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · I, Koch, an unauthorized biography written by then-City Hall reporters Arthur Browne, Michael Goodwin and Dan Collins, told how a reporter new to the political beat wondered about Edward I. Koch's ...
Ed Koch, New York Legend, Dies at 88 - The Forward
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · Edward Irving Koch, New York City’s long-serving, charismatic, controversial 105th mayor and arguably the most visible American Jewish official of his day, passed away this morning at age 88 ...
Q&A: Ed Koch’s Life and Legacy - TIME.com
WEBFeb 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: Mitchell …
Eulogists remember Ed Koch, New York City’s ‘quintessential mayor’
WEBFeb 4, 2013 · Koch was a U.S. congressman from 1968 until he ran for New York City mayor in 1977. He served three terms as the city’s 105th mayor, from January 1, 1978, to December 31, 1989. Tweeters loved ...
The Secrets Ed Koch Carried - The New York Times
WEBMay 7, 2022 · The Secrets Ed Koch Carried. To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual ...
Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Dead At 88 - CBS New York
WEBFeb 2, 2013 · "Ed Koch was an extraordinary Mayor, irrepressible character, and quintessential New Yorker," said President Barack Obama. "Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Ed's loved ones, and to ...
So, How Did Mayor Koch Do? - The New York Times
WEBFeb 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 subway stops to assess ...
Ed Koch and the Politics of the Closet | The New Yorker
WEBFeb 1, 2013 · When Ed Koch was beginning his political career, it was a different era. When he first ran for mayor, for example, the suggestion was that he was having a romantic affair with his friend Bess ...
Ed Koch, New York City And The Politics Of Resentment And Race - NPR
WEBFeb 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 and racial ...
Ed Koch — Wikipédia
WEBEd Koch est membre du Parti démocrate, et exerce la fonction de leader démocrate du district de Greenwich Village entre 1963 et 1965, avant d'être élu au conseil municipal de New York en 1966.En 1965, il appuie la candidature du républicain John Lindsay à la mairie de New York, tout en exerçant ses fonctions de leader démocrate de district. Ed Koch …