New NYPress Columnist Koch Was Named 18th 'Most Loathsome' New Yorker By The NYPress

As we reported, the New York Press today named ex-New York Mayor Ed Koch as its newest columnist with a gushing press release, courtesy of editor Adario Strange.

As Gawker points out, the Press wasn’t so enamored with him earlier this year, when the paper named Koch the 18th ‘Most Loathsome’ New Yorker:

18. Ed Koch
Democratic Ex-Mayor

“How’m I doin’?” To our amazement, pretty good, you batty old queen. Koch’s rep as Mr. New York has managed to survive and even thrive in the 17 years since the publication of Wayne Barrett and Jack Newfield’s devastating City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York.

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