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September 10, 1979

The New Yorker cover for September 10, 1979

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profiles

The Mayor-I

Ken Auletta

PROFILE of Mayor Edward Koch (who became Mayor in Jan. 1978). He was the second of three children, born in the Bronx in 1924. His parents were poor Jewish …

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