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Former Mayor Ed Koch showed that recent heart surgery hasn't affected his personality. According to the Post, Koch showed his spark at a breakfast fundraiser for Manhattan DA hopeful Leslie Crocker Snyder: "Recounting his first trip to the supermarket after leaving office, Koch said dozens of average citizens went out of their way to thank him for his service. Except one, who snarled, 'You were a terrible mayor!' 'And I say to him: "F--- you!"' Koch told the crowd." The 84-year-old opined about Big Apple residents, "We walk faster, we talk faster, we think faster... I’m a New Yorker and Leslie’s a New Yorker." And the former Mayor is also back to reviewing films for The Villager—he liked Whatever Works and Lorna's Silence!

The three Democratic Manhattan DA candidates debated yesterday on NY1, and immediately Leslie Crocker Snyder criticized Cyrus Vance, saying the choice was "between someone who stayed in New York during the terrible times of the ’80s and ’90s and someone who left. Cy Vance decided to move as far away as he could. (Vance moved to Seattle.) She also accused Vance of being part of an "old boy's network"—he is endorsed by outgoing DA Robert Morgenthau—and slammed him for using the term "temperament," "If you recall the recent confirmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, who is a strong woman and a strong judge, and I like to think like myself, a strong woman and a strong judge, and self-made, like me.” Vance said of Snyder, "Let’s have someone who can come to the debate and talk about the policy questions that are in front of us, talk about the future of the office and try to spend less time demeaning the other candidates in the race." He and Richard Aborn also admitted to using cocaine over 30 years ago; Aborn told the News, "Just because I tried cocaine once or twice doesn't mean other people should."