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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...
...daily litany of problems seems all the starker now because of the feverish boosterism that characterized Koch's three terms as mayor. The 65- year-old Democrat lived and breathed New York, taking the pulse of the city through his own. "How'm I doin'?" was his constant question as he flitted from fire to shooting to gala to press conference. For much of his 12-year tenure, the answer was "O.K." But rampant corruption within his administration and the widening economic and racial fissures in the city ultimately soured New Yorkers on their tireless but tiresome mayor...
Part of the mayor's problem is style. Unlike the prickly Koch, Dinkins rarely raises his voice and disdains the finger-in-your-chest aggressiveness that has characterized New York politicians since the days of Tammany Hall. He is far more comfortable in quiet back-room negotiations than in public confrontations with unhappy constituents. His finest hour may have been the lavish hero's welcome the city provided in June for South African leader Nelson Mandela, for whom New York's warring ethnic groups seemed to put aside their differences during a three-day celebration of racial harmony...
...scheme thus classified was launched some years ago by the then mayor, Edward Koch, who had come back from China smitten with the idea of bicycle transportation. He had protective strips of concrete installed to create a bicycle lane up Sixth Avenue. As someone who schlepps around (as we say here) on an old Raleigh three-speed, I was pathetically grateful for the bike lane myself; I suppose that shows that no matter how long I live in New York, I am, at heart, an out-of-towner. The cabdrivers, of course, hated it ("He likes China so much...
...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...