100 years ago on December 12th, 1924
Former mayor Ed Koch is born in Crotona Park East in The Bronx
He would go on to serve three terms as New York City's 105th mayor from 1978 through 1989.
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78 years ago on December 12th, 1946
Thirty-seven people are killed when a fire causes the abandoned Knickerbocker Ice Plant on Amsterdam Ave and 184th to collapse into a nearby tenement building
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