Mayor Ed Koch Slogan Analysis

“How am I doing?” the slogan he used to allure residents into his campaign. The efficacy of this slogan was quite impressive because in a sense it gave the citizens the ability to vocalize their concerns of the community that they resided in. Mayor Ed Koch was his name, a stringent vivacious democrat that believed in doing what ever it took to see his vision materialize. In the Film Koch, it summarizes his rise to mayor of New York City and highlights pivotal moments of his career. He is highly viewed, as someone that brought New York, the city that he believed was the epicenter of the world to life again. He held the position as mayor of New York City for three terms and honorably remembered for preventing New York City from near bankruptcy,

In 1980 the city was in a near brink of bankruptcy. With his stringent character and “we will not give in” ideology he was able to combat the city from entering bankruptcy, but this resolution did not come easily. The process that he supported for stabilizing the city’s budget was to attain loan money from the federal government. The New York City residents however, did not support this tactic, because in his proposal to the federal government he stated that he would jobs and payroll. In addition, the labor force began to participate in strikes to display their outrage to the mayor Koch’s proposal. Impressively with Koch’s ingenuity, he was able to attain a loan of 1.5 millions from the federal

In 1986, Koch devised a plan that would cost a total of $5.1 billion to reestablish vacant and abandoned areas. His focus was to build homes for low- income earners. This plan brought about many positive externalities, such as fighting crime and creating employment. Crime was prevented in these areas because they were now places that attention was drawn to and no longer abandoned. This method also helped to create jobs because the construction need to rehabilitate these vacant buildings, in addition, he was able to create over 20 thousand jobs in construction. Through much of his time in office he was questioned on whether or not he was a liberal because of his prior polices, but this move to use government money to restore New York City abandoned communities removed the question on whether or not he was actually