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Dolman: Remembering Ed Koch as a mayor who convinced New York to be great again
Photo credit: Craig Ruttle
As the honor guard bore Ed Koch’s casket out of Temple Emanu-El onto Fifth Avenue this morning, the organist broke into “New York, New York” and the assembled mourners—several thousand strong—broke into sustained applause.
It was a moving moment, the perfect gesture for a man who was irascible, irreverent, impossible, vindictive, passionate, egotistical, witty, wise—and above all joyful—throughout...
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