Ed Koch

No.

In the era of Ed Koch, my New York was sold up and sold out.

And no, what you see now is occasional trace, a doorway, that used to be such and such.

But nothing in the present tense that I can imagine.

Then I had so many people.

I got to work for so many great people, starting with Mayor Ed Koch in New York City.

and working international presidents and then working with Bill Clinton and working with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer.

And I always tried to learn something from each one of them in terms of like how they operated and kind of what they did.

Yeah.

Well, New York City is a very good example.

Fewer people voted in the Mamdani election than voted in the 1977 Ed Koch mayoralty election.

Because they moved the primaries, they put in ranked choice voting in only the primary, I might say.

love to hear that.

And I'm afraid the answer might just be, he may not articulate it this way, but it goes back to that famous Ed Koch expression, which I always think about fondly.

He was the very extravagant, eccentric Democrat mayor of New York, and he lost an election once.

He said, the people have spoken, and the people must be punished.

As voters prepare to make their decisions, what do you want them to understand about your record, your priorities for another term? What's at stake in this election?

Well, look, as Ed Koch famously said, if you agree with me on nine out of 12 things, vote for me.

If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 things, have your head examined.

We're not going to agree on everything.

I'm not just saying this as a Republican.

Believe me, I'd be the first guy out supporting Ed Koch or Joe Lieberman, Fetterman.

Me too.

And not just because they're Jewish, but because...

Why, Ralph? Why would you, through your actions and inactions, do anything to help any Andrews, a Democrat, win a Senate seat in your state? Make that make sense to me.

And I'm afraid the answer might just be, he may not articulate it this way, but it goes back to that famous Ed Koch expression, which I always think about fondly.

He was the very extravagant, eccentric Democrat mayor of New York, and he lost an election once.

He said, the people have spoken, and the people must be punished.

So 1976, we're at or near the peak of New York's flirting with bankruptcy.

And in this moment, Mayor Koch says $400,000 is going to be devoted to police overtime to run the marathon.

The logic here is one that's familiar from the decades since then in terms of economic development.

What does Koch say? Well, you know, it'll be worth every dollar.

It'll be multiplied in what the tourists will spend in the hotel rooms and the restaurants.

This is sort of priming the pump of private redevelopment and investment.

I also think that New York City, like all large cities, particularly international cities, is a city in which the people talk faster, think faster, walk faster, and run faster.

And I'm proud to be its mayor.

Go.

Mayor Ed Koch talked about what the Mets have done for New York.

The Mets made of the city of New York a small town with love and affection where everybody in this city knows one another.

But on this ballplayer's day, it was a ballplayer who got the most applause.