Portland Public Library

Koch, a film by Neil Barsky ; producer, Jenny Carchman ; director, Neil Barsky

eng

videorecording

MPAA rating: Not rated

Koch

852169070

a film by Neil Barsky ; producer, Jenny Carchman ; director, Neil Barsky

95

"Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, who died in February 2013 at the age of 88, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989--a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime... The tumult of his three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention"--Container

live action