NYC bridge named for former Mayor Ed Koch

Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the naming Wednesday at an 86th birthday party for the former official at Gracie Mansion, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.

Koch said he was honored by the naming of the bridge, which he has driven on "hundreds of times, if not more," but conceded it could take a while for the new name to become widely used with the public.

"I hope it will be sooner, but it will probably be 50 years before people refer to it that way," he said.

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