Ed Koch, Former Mayor And Bellicose Voice Of New York, Dies Slideshow

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Ed Koch as a baby

Mayor! the musical poster

Koch watch

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Ed Koch and David Dinkins at Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City address at Morris High School on January 12, 2012 in the Bronx

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Daily News front page dated Sept. 20, 1977

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Mayor Ed Koch on Ninth Ave. and 36th street in 1982 after declaring Saturday and Sunday as Ninth Avenue International Festival Days.

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Mayor Ed Koch rededicates Sixth Avenue to Avenue of Americas in 1984

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Mayor Ed Koch rides the subway

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Ed Koch celebrates at the renaming of the Queensboro Bridge in his honor at The Water Club Restaurant on May 19, 2011