Ed Koch has died
Ed Koch has died
#1Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 6:32amJust reported on MSNBC
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#2Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:10am
RIP, Mayor Koch.
A true New Yorker. Thanks for all you did for our city!
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#3Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:16amNo he never came out. If I remember correctly he always remained offended by the question.
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#5Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:54am
He cruised me in the men's room of the Quad Cinema once.
>sniff!<
And now he's gone....
RIP, Ed.
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#6Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 8:58am
I'm sorry to hear of his passing.
I spoke to him at the theatre once, and he was very upbeat, very friendly. He radiated positive energy.
I'm glad he was commemorated in Charles Strouse's funny, tuneful musical, Mayor, and am glad I got to see it.
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#7Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 9:01amthere was an off broadway play once called KOCH, my dad has the playbill (the banner is blue instead of yellow) and said it was very funny
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#8Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 9:42am
He was a wonderful mayor in every respect but one. He rescued the city from financial ruin, and he was a colorful example of many aspects of the true New York spirit.
I only wish, with all my heart, that his wonderful legacy was not marred by his callous disregard for the deaths of my friends. It broke my heart then and it breaks my heart all over again today.
Rest in peace, Mayor Koch, the peace that has eluded you since 1981.
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#9Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 10:10amWe've lost a real "New Yorker." A most beloved man and mayor. I remember the closest I ever got to him was when he led the Gay Pride Parade for so many years. Tall guy! I'm sad this morning.
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#10Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:14amHas Larry Kramer made new flyers?
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#11Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:26am
Larry's in Litchfield, CT., having brunch.
He'll have the house-boy do it.
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#12Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 4:01pm
After omitting any mention of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s in its 8-page obituary, the NY Times had a meeting and added three paragraphs, including this:
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A few hours later, three paragraphs were added in. The meatiest noted, "Mr. Koch was also harshly criticized for what was called his slow, inadequate response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Hundreds of New Yorkers were desperately ill and dying in a baffling public health emergency, and critics, especially in the gay community, accused him of being a closeted homosexual reluctant to confront the crisis for fear of being exposed."
#13Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 5:10pmHe was far from a perfect mayor (is anyone?) but the few times I've encountered him he's been an incredibly warm, charismatic individual. He did a lot of good for the city and he will be sorely missed.
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#14Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 5:31pm
People make mistakes,
Holding to their own,
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Honor their mistakes
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Updated On: 2/1/13 at 05:31 PM
#15Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 5:37pm
The city was a mess when he took office! I was working for a city run shelter for abused children and we were going to close due to thethe sad state of the economy. Koch came in and turned it all around. Yes, he did turn a blind eye to the AIDS crisis, many high elected officials did (cough! Saint Ronny…cough!). It might very well be he didn't want to be outted. Heck what was Cuomo's slogan for a brief time when he ran against him "Vote for Cuomo, not the Homo"? I often wondered if Reagan had said anything if Koch would have followed suit. Doesn't matter, a lot people died, it is something he had to live with on his conscience.
He did however do a lot of good and was very much the mascot of New York for the entire world. Dinkins, Gulianni and Bloomberg have not embodied what the world sees New York as like Ed "How'm I doin'?" Koch.
Rest in peace.
ETA: We will never see something like this for Bloomberg!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSVKptu-8J8&feature=youtu.be
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Updated On: 2/1/13 at 05:37 PM
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#17Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 7:36pmAt the moment this thread comes just after the one that reads "I have good news and bad news".
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#18Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 9:48pm
Read THE NORMAL HEART and see HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE for some valid information that cannot be forgotten when assessing Ed Koch's bloodstained tenure as mayor of NYC.
Way too many people are already resting in peace because of his inaction for me to able to wish him anything but a particularly hot eternity.
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Updated On: 2/2/13 at 09:48 PM
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#19Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 10:33pm
I always loved the Village Voice line about him that I think appeared in an article called, "How'm I doin'?" I paraphrase: Long ago realizing he was unable to govern New York City, Ed Koch decided instead to entertain it.
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#20Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/1/13 at 11:34pm
David France, the director of How to Survive a Plague. reminisces about Koch's greatest failure as a politician and a human being:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/02/koch-and-the-aids-crisis-his-greatest-failure.html
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#21Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/2/13 at 12:20am
"I do not agree with Larry Kramer, who charges Koch with the murder of so many back then. What people died of in Koch’s New York was a viral infection. How they died and how quickly they died — those are the things he might have helped ease. And he didn’t. It is as though he couldn’t empathize with the dying or the rest of us who stood helplessly at their bedsides."
I'm so grateful for smart people like David France who wrestle with complicated issues and come to conclusions like this. I appreciate his rigorously holding the line against using illness and death as metaphor, which is exactly where Kramer drops the ball. In my perfect world, work like "How to Survive a Plague" would be widely seen and understood to be one part of that specific story, as opposed to "The Normal Heart," which is the "Zero Dark Thirty" of the era.
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#22Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/2/13 at 9:19am
Just watching some tributes to Koch on tv. The film about him just opened the same day he died. I think I heard he was planning to see it. So sad that he didn't get the chance.
Such a beloved man!
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#23Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/2/13 at 12:21pm
And just think how much more beloved he would have been if he had done what Diane Feinstein did as mayor of San Francisco.
After the first case of AIDS was discovered in Los Angeles in 1981, Mayor Feinstein allocated $180,000 to help fund treatments for patients. By 1988, funds allocated for AIDS programs in SF had grown to over $20 million, more than the federal budget.
The people of San Francisco were as devastated by the disease as were the people of New York, but they never felt that they were abandoned by their mayor, let alone by a mayor who was a closeted gay, avoiding a leadership position merely to protect his closet.
#24Ed Koch has died
Posted: 2/2/13 at 1:09pm
Maer Roshan remembers Ed in New York Magazine:
http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/maer-roshan-on-ed-koch-2013-2/
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