As New York prepares to say good-bye to Ed Koch, he’s even getting his own Manhattan subway station. On the day of the ex-mayor’s star studded funeral, Rep. Carolyn Maloney announced the renaming of the subway station at East 77th Street and Lexington Avenue will be called “Mayor Ed Koch subway station,” according to the…
Former New York Mayor Ed Koch once joked that days on which his name did not appear in the newspaper were days without news. And so it seemed fitting that Koch’s death on Friday at age 88 came on the very day that “Koch,” a documentary that traces his three terms as mayor from 1978…
One of the proudest moments of Ed Koch’s life came during a trip to Israel in 1990, in the midst of the first Palestinian intifada. Koch had recently left City Hall after 12 years as mayor of New York City and was touring Jerusalem when a Palestinian threw a rock at his group, striking Koch…
Bill Clinton will be there to tell Ed Koch one last time that he did just fine. The former president will lead a parade of dignitaries at Monday’s funeral for the ex-New York mayor, who coined the phrase, ‘How’m I Doin’?’ Clinton will cut short an Asian trip to speak at the service at Manhattan’s…
President Obama mourned the passing of New York Mayor Ed Koch, noting among Koch’s passions his love for Israel. “In public office and beyond, his energy, force of personality, and commitment to causes ranging from civic issues to the security of the state of Israel always informed and enlivened the public discourse,” Obama said Friday….
When Ed Koch died this morning, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released a statement. “I will miss his friendship,” the 55-year-old governor said. Ed Koch thought that Andrew Cuomo was a schmuck. He said so on election night in 2010, in a conversation preserved in a new documentary about Koch’s life. Koch said what he…
Former Mayor Edward Koch, who presided over New York City during the turbulent late 1970s and ’80s and came to personify the city with his wry and outspoken style, died on Friday at the age of 88, his spokesman said. As mayor from 1978 to 1989, the forceful, quick-witted Koch, with his trademark phrase “How’m…
The first thing I learned about Ed Koch is how unusually accessible he was. It was September, 1977, and I was a new, eager student at the Columbia School of Journalism, passionate about city news and interested in learning photography. The school published a weekly newspaper at the time, and I wanted to be the…
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