David Dinkins
Former mayor
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- Full Name
- David Norman Dinkins
- Date of Birth
- 07/10/1927 (82 years old)
- Place of Birth
- Trenton, NJ
- Undergrad
- Howard University
- Graduate
- Brooklyn Law School
- Neighborhood
- Upper East Side
- Filed Under
- Politics
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New York's 106th mayor—and first black mayor—Dinkins wrested the mayoralty from fellow Democrat Ed Koch in 1989, but lost his bid for reelection in 1993 to Rudy Giuliani following a gloomy term marked by the Crown Heights riots and out-of-control crime.
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