Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City

Name: Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City
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ISBN: 9780231150330

ISBN-10: 0231150334

ISBN-13: 9780231150330

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jonathan Soffer

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Exploring Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews, and oral histories, this volume plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied but crucial decades, the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.89" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Struggling to Be Middle Class


Ed Koch's Early Life



It Takes a Village (1949-58)



"Rhymes with Notch" (1959-64)



The Man Who Beat Carmine De Sapio



A Rebel with Reason



Koch's Corridor (1969-76)



"A Liberal with Sanity"


Koch as the Anti-Bella



New York


Divided and Broke (1973-77)



The 1977 Mayoral Election



The Critical First Term (1978-81)



The Politics of Race and Party



Shake-up (1979-80)



Controlled Fusion


Or, To Koch or Not to Koch (1980-81)



Governor Koch? (1982-83)



Larger Than Life (1984-85)



A New Spatial Order


Gentrification, The Parks, Times Square



Homelessness



The Koch Housing Plan (1986-89)



AIDS



Crime and Police Issues (1978-84)



The Ward Years


Police, Crime, And Police Crimes (1984-89)



Don't Follow County Leaders, and Watch Your Parking Meters (1986)



Koch's Endgame (1988-89)



Epilogue


Conclusion


Notes


Index