Mayor Koch will give the words of remembrance ... "He never stopped serving others, and his wife and sons have done the same," the mayor said. His wife, Alice, also worked to help Navy families ...

After having kidney cancer for 22 years, Thaler chose to take lethal medication and end her life on Nov. 16 Pat Koch Thaler, the sister of late New York City mayor Ed Koch, decided to end her life ...

The order, introduced by Mayor Tom Koch and passed by the councilors, increased the mayor's salary from about $150,000 to $285,000 and councilors' salaries from just under $30,000 to $44,500.