A friend sent along some wonderful historic retorts that are well worth doling out one at a time on these pages. Here is Ed Koch to the sometimes dogged former NY1 reporter Andrew Kirtzman who was pressing the former New York City mayor with a question.
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Is there anyone tougher or more New-York authentic than former Mayor Ed Koch? Here Koch lambastes fellow Democrat Assemblyman David Weprin in a recorded telephone call for engineering a scare campaign targeting Queens and Brooklyn senior citizens. Weprin, a creer politician, is running in a special election for congress next month. Koch crossed party lines to support Republican businessman Bob Turner in the race. (Disclosure: I’m […]
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I first met Ed Koch in 1988. Or rather, that’s when he first met me – with his shoulder. I had been sent to City Hall Park to listen in on a Koch news conference and the two of us ended up on separate but converging paths at the northwest corner of the park. When […]
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