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Posted on 06/01/2026 4:49:02 AM PDT by Libloather
“How’m I doing?” Don’t ask!
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to remove the name of his predecessor Ed Koch from the 59th Street Bridge — a stance some critics say is a bridge too far.
The democratic socialist mayor, Council Speaker Julie Menin were just a few of the politicians who told an LGBT group that they’d be in favor of canceling Koch from the bridge, also called the Queensboro Bridge, over his alleged mishandling of the 1980s AIDS crisis, The Post has learned.
“Yes, I support renaming,” Mamdani said on the campaign trail last year on a questionnaire sent by the Jim Owles Liberal LGBT Democratic Club used in deciding whether or not to endorse a candidate.
The club has asked candidates if they supported dropping Koch, whose catchphrase was “How’m I doing?” — and if they would sponsor legislation to strip his name from the span.
The City Council and then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg renamed the bridge in Koch’s honor in 2011, two years before his death at age 88.
Koch, a World War II veteran and the second Jewish Big Apple mayor, served three terms from 1978 to 1989.
Koch even filmed a promotional video by standing at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge and saying, “Welcome to my bridge!”
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Some day there will be a Madmani bridge
And you have to pay a Jizya to cross it.
Juden frei!
Guess it’s no longer “Hymie Town”.
Yep. Koch was Jewish and battled Nazis in WWII (that’s “for” any Squad members out there).
Also endorsed Guilliani despite himself being a Democrat and gay.
Called himself a “liberal with sanity”.
All bad things to a Muslim revolutionary.
lol, “for” equals “two”. My thumbs are too big for my phone.
Well, this is not at all surprizing. Better to leave Mamdanis off it or at the least, put it UNDER the bridge.
What crisis?
Looks like more LGBT pandering is going on here. Plus a bit of Mamdani’s antisemitism thrown in.
No matter. The LGBT fools will celebrate this proposed name change. Up until the day their Muslim overlords throw them off that same bridge.
Some day there will be a Madmani gallows..................
Couldn’t possibly be because Koch was a Jew.
No muslim would stoop so low …
I admire the restraint shown here. I was afraid someone would say something like “This is the first time a bunch of gay guys didn’t like Koch.” Thank all of you for staying above such things.
Is this the first time a bunch of gay guys didn’t like Koch?
Oh, no! You went there?!
The AIDS crisis
Ed didnt start it...
Guess who caused it ???
Slow down, you move too fast.
Gotta make the morning last
The Islamicists will remove Mayor Koch’s name primarily because he was a Jew and was good for NY.
Mamdani will erect a memorial to the 9/11 terrorists if he can.
Mamdani will push the Islamic Brotherhood agenda in New York and the USA.
Remember Leonard Cohen’s song? Funny, Cohen was a Jew too...
“...first we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin”.
So far they have taken Ankara, London, soon Paris, Madrid all of Scandinavia, Italy, Greece and “Insha’llah” New York.
THAT IS THERE GOAL.
Ok, ok, I have the two choices for the new name, Marx or Lenin!
Let’s just do what Libs do, change the names of words. Like the press will now be referred to as “Pravda” and Mamdani is now “General Secretary”. Use these words when speaking or writing about them, turn the mindset on them!
It wasn’t his bridge to begin with. It was always called “The Queens borough” bridge since it was built. Koch had nothing to do with it.
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