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...York: Ed Koch, 52, seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
...years Manhattan Poet Joel Oppenheimer, now 47, took exactly the same route from his Greenwich Village apartment to his local bar, the Lion's Head. One day he tried a more circuitous route, walking along different streets. Midway to the bar he broke out in a cold sweat, suffering from heart palpitations, jelly legs and vertigo. "I had no control over my body," he said. "It was total panic...
Such similarities between events in the book and in the real world might, possibly, be coincidental. But in several references, such as when one character is mentioned as having known a woman killed in the 1970 explosion of a "bomb factory" in Greenwich Village, the difference between fact and fiction is negligible...
During the late '50s Koch joined the anti-Tammany reform movement in his new neighborhood, Greenwich Village. After two years on the city council, Koch was elected to Congress in 1968. In the House, Representative Koch has been a down-the-line liberal and-despite his pugnacious stance in the mayoral campaign-an excellent conciliator. Indeed, Koch was elected secretary of New York's 39-member House congressional delegation, consisting of several factions in both parties. Says a colleague: "He doesn't let ideology interfere with getting things done. He adjusts for windage...
Myerson is the most glamorous element in Koch's otherwise low-key social life. He lives in a one-bedroom Greenwich Village apartment, where he occasionally cooks steaks for friends and serves low-priced French table wine from a living-room rack. In the kitchen he stocks old-fashioned seltzer siphons. He now rarely has time to listen to the Baez, Denver and Garfunkel tapes stacked by the stereo. He no longer owns an auto and frequently uses the subway. (Koch withdrew from law practice when he entered Congress, and lives on his salary...