John Liu Takes On City Council Over Koch Bridge

I remember Koch as a bigot, a sanctimonious hypocrite and an asshole.

I thought I might be the only one.

But John Liu remembers that too - at least the bigot part.

His point about the street naming/bridge naming is a good one, IMO.

The Donald Manes Queensboro Bridge

I can't call it the Koch Bridge.

I just can't.

You shouldn't either.

I say we should change the name every few months - just name it after one of the many Koch cronies who went to jail for corruption (or killed themselves) during the third Koch term.

Here, let me get the string of names started:

Donald Manes
Stanley Friedman
Mario Biaggi
Geoffrey Lindenauer
Anthony Ameruso

Koch himself belonged in jail. He managed to skate free, but he shouldn't have a bridge named after him.

Maybe a prison, but not a bridge...

Who Cares?

Ed Koch told a small crowd at the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association that he supports either Ray Kelly or Christine Quinn for mayor in 2013.

I say "Who cares what Ed Koch thinks about anything?"

Time to go away, old man.

Seriously, your time was over a long time ago.

The Koch Bridge

The move to rename the 59th Street Bridge after former NYC Mayor Ed Koch is just, well, stupid.

I can think of a whole bunch of things that you could name after Ed Koch that would be a whole helluva lot more appropriate.

How about the parking lot where Koch crony Donald Manes first tried to kill himself after getting caught in a parking meter scandal?

How about the kitchen where Donald Manes finally did kill himself by plunging a knife through his chest?

How about the electric chair in Sing Sing that Koch has so lustily supported as a deterrent to crime throughout his political career?

How about the graves of innocent Iraqi citizens killed as a result of the Bush/Cheney/neo-con war on Iraq that Koch vocally and enthusiastically supported?

Perhaps a gay bar in Chelsea that refuses to acknowledge itself as a gay bar even though everybody in the world knows it's a gay bar and it would move the cause of gay rights forward mightily to have that bar announce its orientation to the world instead of calling itself the Bess Myerson?

Yeah, I can think of so many other things that ought to be named the "Ed Koch."

But the 59th Street Bridge sure ain't one of them.