Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins, the city’s first African American mayor, has died at age 93.
Dinkins died Monday evening at his residence on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed Dinkins’s death to The New York Times.
Dinkins served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993, according to his bio on the city’s website.
The former mayor briefly practiced law in New York City before getting into politics, first as a district leader and then as a Harlem state assemblyman.
Dinkins went on to defeat Rudolph Giuliani in 1990 with the narrowest electoral margin in New York City’s history.
During his inauguration speech, Dinkins “vowed to be ‘mayor of all the people of New York,’ and declared: ‘We are all foot soldiers on the march to freedom,'” according to the bio.
In recent years, Dinkins remained active in New York City politics, hosting a weekly radio show and teaching public affairs at Columbia University.
