Former NYC Mayor Ed Koch Dead at 88

Ed Koch, the brash, colorful and often confrontational mayor who helped to lead New York City out of its brush with bankruptcy in the 1970s, launching an astonishing municipal turnaround that continues to this day, has died. He was 88.

Associated Press bio here.

NY Times obit here

Edward I. Koch 1924-2013

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