[NYPOST] David Dinkins...the former mayor of New York. He sez he lost to Rudy Giuliani in 1993 because of racism, which is pervasive in places like Manhattan...
, who was elected New York City’s first black mayor in 1989 and famously referred to the nation’s largest metropolis as a "gorgeous mosaic," died Monday night, sources told The Post.The former mayor passed away from natural causes at his Upper East Side home around 9:30 p.m. He was 93 years old.
A home health aide had discovered Dinkins was not breathing and called 911, sources said.
His death comes a little over a month after his wife, Joyce, died at their home. She was 89.
Dinkins — who defeated three-term incumbent Ed Koch in the 1989 Democratic primary — beat Republican Rudy Giuliani that year to become the city’s 106th mayor.