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...close early. The streets around Macy's and Gimbels were packed with evicted shoppers. Only the dead tired knew Brooklyn, as thousands of stranded straphangers hoofed across the bridge. Power was restored before the sun set over the Hudson. "It was an act of God," pronounced Mayor Ed Koch, adding hastily, "Of course, anything God does is O.K. with...
South Street Seaport, Manhattan. A pet project of Mayor Edward Koch's since he first saw Faneuil Hall Marketplace, the $250 million venture as now envisioned will encompass eleven blocks of New York's oldest neighborhood. It will include expansion of the sprightly but small South Street Seaport Museum, renovation and expansion of the venerable Fulton Fish Market and construction of a pavilion for restaurants and shops that Ben Thompson has designed. To be completed, in its first phase, by the end of 1983, the development, which is a short walk from Wall Street, may bring a little Baltimore pizazz...
Judge O'Connor did not hesitate to order the death penalty for Mark Koch, then 23, who had been found guilty of murder for agreeing to knife another man in return for a $3,300 fee. The contract killing stemmed from a dispute over drugs. (Koch has since appealed the verdict and been granted a new trial...
...York City was never in a sorrier state. Increased crime, impossible subways, broken-down buses, messed-up schools, filthy streets. Are these the accomplishments of a great mayor? My answer to Ed Koch's "How'm I doin'?" is "Not good, buddy, not good...
When I was a boy (circa 1925), I believed Jimmy Walker was the greatest! He was from Greenwich Village; he was fast with a one-liner; he was a "con" man and a lousy mayor of New York. Now we have a repeat: Ed Koch...