NEW YORK - New York City will rename a subway station in memory of Edward
Koch, the three-term mayor who died last week.
US Rep. Carolyn Maloney
(D-N.Y.) will announce Monday that the station at East 77th Street and Lexington
Avenue will be renamed the Mayor Ed Koch Subway Station, the Associated Press
reported.
Koch, who died February 1 at 88, will be buried Monday in Manhattan
following a funeral service at a the Temple Emanu El Reform synagogue. Former
President Bill Clinton, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Israel's consul
general in New York, Ido Aharoni, are all scheduled to speak.