Ed Koch

No Post-Mortem Bounce for 'Koch'

Koch, the new documentary about the life of the eponymous former New York City mayor, opened at the Angelika and Lincoln Plaza cinemas on Friday. Up until then, the movie's prospects for a box office bonanza might have been slim. How many people would want to drop $13 on watching 90 minutes about a ... More >>

After Leaving Hospital Last Week, Koch Is Back In Intensive Care [UPDATE]

This is the last bit of news we want to hear after last week. Then, we reported on the improving medical condition of former Mayor Ed Koch. The 88-year-old statesman was hospitalized at New York Presbyterian/Columbia for reportedly having swollen ankles and liquid inside of his lungs. With positive ... More >>

Ed Koch: The Ever-Quotable Former NYC Mayor on Dieting

Ed Koch was a notorious trencherman. He spent a good part of his life living in Greenwich Village and would often go to Chinatown to eat. Until he grew old, he often had to worry about his weight. In fact, one of his most famous quotes has to do with losing weight: "The best way to lose weight is t ... More >>

Ed Koch Died This Morning

Former mayor Ed Koch died of congestive heart failure this morning. He was 88 years old. After a stay in the hospital last week, he returned to intensive care yesterday for treatment of his lungs, which were filling with fluid, as well as an iron deficiency. Unfortunately, it did not save his life. ... More >>

Koch: The No-Nonsense Loudmouth Gets a Doc

After Lung Ailment, Koch May Leave Hospital Tomorrow Or Thursday

Here's a bit of good news for the "How'm I'm doing?" Mayor. On Saturday night, former New York City chieftain Ed Koch, 88, was hospitalized at New York Presbyterian/Columbia for feeling lethargic due to swollen ankles and doctors' reports that said his lungs were filled with liquid. After three day ... More >>

The Central Park Five

Brooklyn DA Hynes Does Damage Control Over Orthodox Sex Scandal

A week after a blistering series in the New York Times detailing his apparent complicity in an effort by Brooklyn's Ultra-Orthodox and Hasidic leaders to cover up sex abuse in their communities, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes is in damage-control mode. We noted earlier this week that some ... More >>

Koch v. Obama

Upset at the president's Israel stance, ex-mayor wades into congressional race

I Know Which Two Gays Should Marry!

​Each other, I mean. Now that the smoke has cleared and the right to same-sex marriage has historically been approved in New York state, I honestly feel two famous older gays should bury the hatchet in a giant wedding cake and scoop up lots of creamy filling. And they should do that after th ... More >>

Double Whammy For Ed Koch

​ Ed Koch was the mayor of New York during the early days of the AIDS crisis, but his real nightmare is actually happening right now! Two classic plays that trash his response to the crisis are being concurrently revived, to great acclaim! Firstly, Angels in America has a line in which close ... More >>

Nixon Wins, But Nat Hentoff Has a Beef with Ed Koch

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 16, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 46 Next year in Fear City by Nat Hentoff This was going to be the first of a non-consecutive series of probes into the reasons for and the consequences of the Nixon victory, with particular emphasis on ... More >>

Condoms Can Still Be Evidence of Prostitution in NYC

Carrying a condom in New York City can be proof you're a prostitute. Yes, now, in 2011. Gothamist reports that along with the City Council push to rename the Queensboro Bridge after Ed Koch, a resolution was also on the agenda yesterday meant to pressure the governor and state legislator to pass a d ... More >>

Koch Bridge To Queens Coming Soon

​Former New York City mayor Ed Koch is getting the Queensboro Bridge re-named for him after the City Council voted 38-12 on Wednesday in favor of the change. The bridge connects Manhattan and Queens starting at 59th Street and heading over the East River. As soon as next month, it will officia ... More >>

Ed Koch Appears in Gay Film!

​ Making The Boys--opening today--is Crayton Robey's documentary peering behind Mart Crowley's legendary 1968 play The Boys in the Band and its impact in bringing the world out of the closet in terms of gay life. I'm one of the film's chattering experts, along with Paul Rudnick, Michael Cunn ... More >>

Ed Koch Red-Baited at an Anti-War Rally, Says Jack Newfield

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 13, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 2 My Back Pages By Jack Newfield PAGE ONE. Congressman Ed Koch is misleading the readers of The Voice. Koch and a close friend of his (Larry Maxwell) have published letters in The Voice denying that Ko ... More >>

Ed Koch Raps Police on Gay Arrests

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 2, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 14 Koch Raps Police On Gay Arrests by Jonathan Black Congressman Edward I. Koch, in a letter to Police Commissioner Howard Leary, has demanded an explanation for the arrest of 167 person at the Snake Pit bar ... More >>

Ed Koch: Let Draft Resisters Come Home

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 29, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 5 Koch: Let Resisters Come Home by Jonathan Black Congressman Edward I. Koch, who recently returned from a two-day trip to three Canadian cities, is trying to initiate a Congressional campaign aimed at pr ... More >>

Ed Koch Asks Newly-Minted President Richard Nixon to Go Easy on Draft Dodgers

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 13, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 18 Koch Asks Wider C.O. Exemptions President Nixon should take "immediate action to grant exemption from military service to young men who are conscientiously opposed to the Vietnam war, Congressman Edw ... More >>

Nat Hentoff Thinks Up an Ultimatum for Ed Koch

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 11, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 39 The way to stop Humphrey by Nat Hentoff I am in no way privy to the deliberations, state or national, of the McCarthy strategists. All I know is what I read in the papers; and from press accounts, I am ... More >>

Ed Koch, Richard Ravitch, Judith Kaye -- It's the Day of the Geezers!

Disgusted with boomer pols who have their thumbs up their asses, New York's old-timers are stepping up and trying to get it done. As you may have noticed, former MTA head and current Lieutenant Governor Richard Ravitch, 73, was given the job of announcing the new state budget plan while Governor P ... More >>

Clip Job: Ed Koch Upsets Republican Incumbent for City Council

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 17, 1966, Vol. XII, No. 5 Koch Upsets Incumbent, But No Other Surprises All the incumbents who ran in the Greenwich Village area won election on November 8, except Republican Councilman Woodward Kingman, who was defeated by D ... More >>

Clip Job: Vietnam! Koch! Party Raid! Vietnam! Vietnam! Flag Burning! Horrorshow, Droogies!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 14, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 26 America in Vietnam: From Here to Nowhere By Michael Harrington As I write, the news is filled with reports on Buddhist demonstrations in Vietnam. Indeed, events are moving so fast that, by the time thi ... More >>

Clip Job: Koch Surprises No One, And Manville Returns!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 24, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 23 Koch Battles the Odds, Gets in Council Race By Jack Newfield Having vanquished the DeSapio machine in Greenwich Village, Edward Koch this week announced he will make a fight for public office. He seeks ... More >>

Clip Job: The Teen Menace on MacDougal Street

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 17, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 22 The Children's Hour, or Curfew on MacDougal St. By Stephanie Harrington A teenage girl who looked like a boy stopped short in front of the entrance to the IND on Sixth Avenue and 8th Street last Friday ... More >>

PEOPLES IS PEOPLES

Can you tell me how to get to Court Street?

Clip Job: Koch Finally Slays DeSapio For Good

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 23, 1965, Vol. X, No. 49 Koch: The Night the Nice Guy Finished First By Jack Newfield A few minutes before the polls closed on primary night Edward Koch not only appeared to be the most relaxed person in the clubhouse of t ... More >>

Ed Koch Celebrates Bypass Operation with Big Steak Dinner

​Back in the Chicago Bears' 80s heyday, there was a story (now debunked, alas) that quarterback Jim McMahon fed his offensive line dinner every weekend as a gesture of appreciation toward the people who kept him from getting killed. Former Mayor Ed Koch seems to have heeded that apocryphal exa ... More >>

"Fuck You!" Says Ed Koch at Crocker-Snyder Fundraiser

At an event at the Grand Hyatt for Leslie Crocker-Snyder, whom he has endorsed for Manhattan D.A., former Mayor Ed Koch recounted the heartwarming story of the day he greeted well-wishers at a supermarket just after he left office. One of those who approached Koch told him he had been a terrible may ... More >>

Former Mayor Ed Koch Hospitalized

Look through the Voice's back issues (and Wayne Barrett's and Jack Newfield's City for Sale) and you will see our authors have not been kind to Ed Koch's mayoralty. But we are not complete monsters, and wish him well on his recent hospitalization. Koch, who rose from Village Independent Democrats me ... More >>

Manhattan D.A. Endorsements: McCall for Vance, Koch for Snyder

In endorsements for the Manhattan D.A.'s race, as we noted before, it's been all about Richard Aborn. But the other candidates are starting to grab some big names, too. Cyrus Vance Jr. has just added former state comptroller and gubernatorial candidate Carl McCall to his roster, which includes David ... More >>

Clip Job: Tammany Finally Tamed in the Village

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 12, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 47Last Hurrah for Tamawa! Village is Reform Country!By Susan GoodmanA margin of 41 votes marked finis to any dreams of renewed glory Carmine G. DeSapio might have been nurturing. The victor was Edward I. Koch, w ... More >>

Clip Job: A Victory for Washington Square, Koch, and the Voice

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 5, 1963, Vol. VIII, No. 4611-Year Fight Ends: No More Buses in Washington SquareMayor Robert F. Wagner entered the local political fray Monday when he hailed Edward I. Koch and Carol Greitzer, Village Independent Democratic Candidates f ... More >>

Mayor: Juries' Decisions in Cop-Kill Cases "Inexplicable"

Ed Koch on the Bloomberg-Paterson Dust-Up: Meh

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An Anniversary: The Manes Scandals

Bloomberg: Some of Koch's Style, None of His Resolve

Tales of the City

The 'Voice' bags the bad guys

1987

1989

Following the Money

Building Public Power

An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action

Double-Standard Deity

9-11 God Demands Special Treatment on Records and Residence

Why Blacks Shouldn't Vote for Hillary

An African American Reporter Comes to Terms With a Taboo Subject

Bigger and Blacker

How the former mayor made Al Sharpton kosher and is winning back the hearts of African Americans

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The 1998 Wacko Awards

The Un-Gerry

At the United Nations, Ferraro turned her back on Blacks, Jews, Latins, and Liberals