David Dinkins, NYC’s first
black mayor, dead at 93
Posted By: Ribicon, 11/24/2020 4:51:19 AM
David Dinkins, who was elected New York City’s first black mayor in 1989 and famously referred to the nation’s largest metropolis as a “gorgeous mosaic,” died Monday night, sources told The Post. The former mayor passed away due to natural causes at his Upper East Side home at around 9:30 p.m. He was 93 years old. A home health aide had discovered Dinkins was not breathing and called 911, sources said. His death comes a little over a month after his wife, Joyce, died at their home. She was 89. Dinkins—who defeated three-term incumbent Ed Koch in the 1989 Democratic
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Dinkins was a disaster of a mayor, since surpassed by Mayor Big Bird. Dinkins, whose claim to fame is being black (cheers to the post for omitting the capital B), caused the mess of crime that Rudy Giuliani so ably cleaned up. "General David Dinkins, where aaaaaare you?"