Reuters reports that former Congressman and New York City Mayor Edward Koch, the City's Mayor from 1978 to 1989, has died at the age of 88
Like him or not (as so many New Yorkers did or didn't), he was definitely a central political figure in the City and State, and a late (if not final) reversion to the classic days when the City's politicians still tended to come as often from the City's working class as from its professionals or financial folks.
RIP.