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Ed Koch on the summer of '77

Edward I. Koch was running for mayor in the summer of 1977, eventually winning on a strong anti-crime platform. He served until 1989.

What is the single biggest change in the city in the past 30 years? There is now a sense that the lives of your children will be even better than your own. Back then everything was despair. In 1977, a million people left the city out of despair.

It must...

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