The Ecole's architectural commissions illustrated this link: private townhouses for doctors, a coal merchant and a brewer, for example, as well as the construction or (re)decoration of a printing works, grain store, furrier's shop, department stores and, significantly, a church and three banks.

ECONOMIST: Decorative arts

Mayor Koch later wrote in "Politics" volume two of his informal autobiography that Ms. Heimel's article, which featured comments by his father, a retired furrier, that stereotyped entire categories of the city's population, could have sunk the campaign if it had come out before the election.

WSJ: Ed Koch: A Mayor and His City