Word: koch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leadership," says Moss, "and it simply isn't there." A TIME/CNN poll of New Yorkers taken during this summer's rash of killings showed that only 47% approved of Dinkins' performance, and an equal number believed he is no different or worse than his abrasive predecessor, Edward I. Koch...
...then in the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign pitting three-term incumbent Edward I. Koch against a black challenger, Manhattan Borough President David Dinkins, came the murder of Yusuf Hawkins. He was a 16-year- old black who with a group of friends ventured into the tightly knit, mostly Italian Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn to inspect a used car. They were set upon by a gang of whites armed with baseball bats and a gun. When the melee was over, Hawkins lay dead with two bullet wounds in his chest...
...many voters, Dinkins had seemed a perfect antidote to twelve years of confrontations from the irrepressible Ed Koch, who appealed to working-class whites by goading blacks. Low-key and conciliatory, Dinkins prefers quiet back-room negotiations to forceful public speeches. But even in such talks, Dinkins and his aides have blundered. When the mayor dispatched his most trusted assistant, Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, to mediate the Korean boycott, Lynch angered the demonstrators by walking into one of the stores without first talking with them. After that bumpy start, however, Dinkins' men managed to keep both sides talking...
...Yorkers, who pride themselves on having the nation's thickest urban carapaces, are cracking under the tightening grasp of the homeless. When then Mayor Ed Koch urged Gothamites two years ago to stop giving to panhandlers because many "just don't want to work for a living," residents shrugged off the curmudgeonly remark as the latest from the city's self-appointed curmudgeon. But Koch's sour mood has caught on over the past twelve months, surfacing recently in cartoons, editorials, dinner conversations and official campaigns to move the city's vagrants out of its subway, bus and train stations...
...fire could have been prevented. After a 1988 social-club fire killed six people, Mayor Edward Koch created ten inspection teams to shut down offending clubs. But budgetary pressure and complacency quickly took their toll, as they seem to with most public services in the city. By the time Happy Land burned, only two inspection teams were left...