Ed Koch: Don’t Put Tolls on My Bridge

Ed Koch might be 86 years old, but he plans on sticking around for awhile—at least as long as there’s talk that one day, state lawmakers might approve a toll on the newly re-named Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge.

“I’ll stand there like Horatio preventing it,” quipped the former three-term mayor, who schmoozed with former Mayor David Dinkins and the current occupant of City Hall, Michael Bloomberg, at a Water Club reception.

Mayor Bloomberg pushed the City Council to rename the 102-year old span, bestowing an unusual honor upon a still-living former mayor.

“We all stand, Ed, on your shoulders,” Bloomberg said.