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Koch: Making a Mistake
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After promising to keep it open, Koch closes Sydenham Hospital in Harlem.
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Video description: Meet Ed Koch, the quintessential New Yorker. Combative, funny and blunt, he was mayor from 1978 to 1989, an era of graffiti, near-bankruptcy and crime. Before his death in 2013, the intensely private man recalled his life and legacy.