Brooklyn officials mourn former Deputy Mayor Lynch
Brooklyn officials this week remembered William Lynch, a former aide to then-Mayor David Dinkins who was influential in city and state politics for 40 years. Lynch died on Friday at 72 of kidney disease.
Lynch was also instrumental in planning Nelson Mandela’s visit to New York in 1990, during which Mandela spoke at the Fulton Mall in Brooklyn.
“Bill Lynch was a giant in New York City politics, and – on a personal level – a mentor and a friend to me for the last 25 years,” Public Advocate Bill de Blasio said. De Blasio, a former councilman representing Park Slope and Carroll Gardens, worked with Lynch as a junior staffer during the Dinkins administration.