Yesterday Christine Quinn, NY City Council Speaker, made it official: she’s running for mayor. As the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund’s Gay Politics puts it, NYC … could become the largest municipality in the world to elect an openly gay mayor if … Quinn is successful in her bid for the job. A successful bid [...]
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New York Icon, The Mayor of the City I Knew, Ed Koch Passes
“I’m the sort of person who will never get ulcers,” the mayor — eyebrows devilishly up, grinning wickedly at his own wit — enlightened the reporters at his $475 rent-controlled apartment in Greenwich Village on Inauguration Day in 1978. “Why? Because I say exactly what I think. I’m the sort of person who might give [...]
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