NBC New York Exposes 'Grave' Ed Koch Mistake

There is probably no one who feels worse right now in all of New York than Tommy Flynn. In an exclusive News 4 report by government affairs reporter Melissa Russo, the stone-cutter and engraver takes full responsibility for inverting the birth year of New York’s beloved former mayor. Instead of 1924, the inscription on the gravestone Flynn worked on for eight months with Ed Koch reads 1942.

Former Koch chief of staff Diane Coffey, one of a small number of people already aware of the mistake, tries to make the best of it in the NBC New York report.

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