Back to the Future

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After bumping into a certain senator and senator’s wife at the White House state dinner this week, Ed Koch has an idea about who should succeed Janette Sadik-Khan in 2014:

Mr. Koch, who took as his date Diane Coffey, the chief of staff in his mayoral administration, said he conversed with Justice Antonin Scalia — a “charming guy” — as well as Senator Charles Schumer and his wife, Iris Weinshall, a former New York City transportation commissioner. (Mr. Koch said he suggested Ms. Weinshall reprise that role under a new mayoral administration. “I think she said, ‘No, thanks,”’ he said.)