As part of a city-backed initiative to encourage children to walk to school, former mayor Ed Koch made a guest appearance at an East Village elementary school yesterday to tell tales of the bad old days. Koch read books to the kids and then moved on to his own third term autobiography, talking about how “awful” Tompkins Square Park was and "adding that gentrification has helped it become a 'marvelous place.'" [DNAInfo]
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