Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins Dies at 93

[Polybius]

Source: NBC News

David Dinkins, New York City’s first and only Black mayor, has died at 93.

Two senior NYPD officials confirmed to NBC New York that Dinkins' health aide found him unresponsive in his Lenox Hill apartment Monday night, having apparently died of natural causes. The former mayor died a little more than a month after his wife, Joyce Dinkins, passed away.

Born in Trenton, New Jersey, Dinkins briefly practicing law in New York City before he began his career in politics as a district leader and was elected a Harlem state Assemblyman in 1966. He went on to serve as President of the Board of Elections and City Clerk before winning election as Manhattan Borough President in 1985.

Dinkins, who also served in the Marines in Korea, ran for mayor in 1989 and defeated Mayor Edward I. Koch and he went on to defeat Rudy Giuliani by the narrowest electoral margin in New York City history: 47,000 votes.

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Very sad news. He just lost his wife Joyce Dinkins on October 13th. RIP Sir.

[LovingA2andMI]

1. RIP

[blueseas]

2. So Sad

A Good man

Rest in Peace.

[melman]

3. RIP

A really decent man.

[Hekate]

4. Mayor & Mrs Dinkins led long lives full of accomplishments. Gentle passage to them both.

[Raine]

5. Sad news 😔

R-I-P

[BumRushDaShow]

6. Oh wow.

I was just posting about him a few times over the past couple weeks. He had to deal with the lunatic Ghouliani, who eventually succeeded him -

R.I.P. and hope you and your wife are together again.

[electric_blue68]

11. : ( I remember this RIP Mayor Dinkins

(I noted it in other thread)

[Sherman A1]

7. Sad

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Cross gently, Mr Mayor...

[disndat]

9. I hope Dinkins lived

to see the transformation to Biden ending the nightmare of Trump and seeing the rising power
of the BLM vote.
R.I.P.

[George II]

10. Mayor Dinkens was personally a great and humble man. Unfortunately for him, he was elected...

....during a tumultuous time in New York. He took over after 12 years of Ed Koch, whose third term was riddled with scandal. Koch wasn't involved in any of the several scandals but was faulted for not being aware of them.

Dinkens had a lot to clean up after defeating Koch in the Democratic Primary and then Rudy Giuliani in the General Election. No matter who succeeded Koch, he/she was in a bad position from day one.

Outside of campaign rhetoric, never a bad word was said about Dinkens.