Sunset for New York. (steps needed for New York to solve its social and economic problems) (column)

National Review | October 15, 1990| | Copyright

In casual conversation with Edward Koch I mentioned the young man from Utah who had been stabbed to death by a teenaged New Yorker. I have to tell you," said the former mayor of New York City, I cried when I read that story." Those who doubt that he did so do not know Edward Koch; and perhaps they don't know the gut anxiety being felt among New Yorkers. He also remarked that New York was looking desperately like another Chicago, another Detroit. "If it goes that way, that's it, the end of New York ... It's said about Dinkins'-his successor-'that he is sliding over the ...

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