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Ed Koch couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song to herald his final farewell to New York City.

President Bill Clinton will be among the dignitaries delivering remarks at the funeral service for former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

Former Mayor Ed Koch, the combative, acid-tongued politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during a three-term City Hall run in which he embodied New York chutzpah for the rest of the world, died Friday. He was 88.

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch has been hospitalized for the second time in three months, this time with a respiratory infection.