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Koch had his fun in NYC -- and in the Hamptons, too

New York Mayor Edward I. Koch greets onlookers

Photo credit: AP | New York Mayor Edward I. Koch greets onlookers as he arrives at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital Neurological Center. (Aug. 13, 1987)

While the sweltering sidewalks of New York were the favorite stamping grounds of former Mayor Edward I. Koch, he often sought relief with summer weekend visits to the Hamptons.

"In the earlier years he would visit Quogue, where he had friends," his former mayoral chief of staff, Diane Coffey, said Friday. "He visited a few times in the summer. His sister [Pat Thaler] lived for many years in...

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