Koch
In June 1989, Ed Koch weighed-in on the city’s housing crisis as an incumbent facing off against a crowded field of mayoral challengers.
On a day when Newt Gingrich compared the people planning a downtown mosque to Nazis, former Mayor Ed Koch said Americans could some day regret the furor over the project.
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