Former Mayors

Did you ever read something where the author was trying to make a point, but you couldn't figure out what point the author was trying to make?  On the New York Times City Room blog last week David Dunlap took a picture of a sign that happens to be across the street from my building.  It is the top sign above.  Dunlap was trying to, well, I'm not sure what he was trying to say.  My guess is he was shooting for "Har.  Har.  This here sign still has Rudy's name on it.  Isn't that funny?" 

If only Dunlap had walked to Lenox and peeked around the corner!  He would have seen the Ed Koch sign.  Had he walked further west on 116th he would have come across the David Dinkins sign.  Then again, this is the same reporter who was told his camera would be broken if he continued taking pictures of someone illegally attaching posters to street lamps, continued taking pictures.  His camera was broken (surprise!) and he was knocked to the ground.

The Koch sign is between 23 and 30 years old.  Koch was elected mayor in 1977 and Carol Bellamy was City Council President from 1978 to 1985.

Comments

[Marie C.]

You nailed it with the har har. If these signs were bronze plaques, instead of steel, no one would think twice about them. Maybe.

But, doesn't it seem like just yesterday when Ed Koch was mayor? I never lived in New York, but it does to me. It seems I see him on TV (Law & Order?) a lot.

[Joe]

Mayor Koch is still quite active. He's got a movie review column in a Greenwich Village weekly and does a bit of acting.