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Former Mayor Koch Still Sassy!
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 10, 2009
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Former Mayor Ed Koch showed that recent heart surgery hasn't affected his personality. According to the Post, Koch showed his spark at a breakfast fundraiser for Manhattan DA hopeful Leslie Crocker Snyder: "Recounting his first trip to the supermarket after leaving office, Koch said dozens of average citizens went out of their way to thank him for his service. Except one, who snarled, 'You were a terrible mayor!' 'And I say to him: "F--- you!"' Koch told the crowd." The 84-year-old opined about Big Apple residents, "We walk faster, we talk faster, we think faster... I’m a New Yorker and Leslie’s a New Yorker." And the former Mayor is also back to reviewing films for The Villager—he liked Whatever Works and Lorna's Silence!
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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