Friday, February 1, 2013

BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Ed Koch, New York's feisty mayor, dies at 88

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Ed Koch, New York's feisty mayor, dies at 88

thumbnail NEW YORK (AP) - When Ed Koch was mayor, it seemed as if all of New York was being run by a deli counterman. Koch was funny, irritable, opinionated, often rude and prone to yelling. And it worked, for a while at least. With a Bronx-born combination of chutzpah and humor, Koch steered New York back from the brink of financial ruin and infused the city with new energy and optimism in the 1970s and '8...

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