RIP Ed Koch

[naive]

He was one of the good ones...

[Mom49of4]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013...yc-dies-at-88/

[regularguy]

He was always entertaining and unpredictable. A bit of a "crazy old coot" at times.

[naive]

He was always entertaining and unpredictable. A bit of a "crazy old coot" at times.

He was a hoot at times...Reminded me of our own Willie Don...

He clearly turned NYC around in the late 70's, early 80's...

[Wes]

http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/01/ed-koc...rk-city-mayor/

[kandace]

One of the literally dying breed of government officials who believed in public service. May he RIP.

[SalisburySage]

When you put a gay mayor in charge things get done!

[cprenegade]

He was a character for sure. But clearly much better than the nanny-state whack job who is in there now. RIP Ed.

[Baltimatt]

http://dusiznies.blogspot.com/2013/0...tombstone.html

A larger-than-life Ed Koch arranged it so that even in death he’d remain a New Yorker. Five years ago, the former mayor, then 83, paid $20,000 for a plot in the nondenominational cemetery of Trinity Church in Washington Heights — the only active graveyard in Manhattan that was still accepting new burials. "I don’t want to leave Manhattan, even when I’m gone,’’ he told The Associated Press. “This is my home. The thought of having to go to New Jersey was so distressing to me.’’

Koch consulted with rabbis to make sure that resting in peace in a non-Jewish cemetery was “doable,’’ he told the Times. With the approval of the cemetery, the gate just north of the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 153rd Street near Koch’s plot reads, “The Jewish Gate.’’

Inscribed on his tombstone are the last words of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, before he was murdered by terrorists: “My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish.’’

RIP, Mayor.