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Discusses the reactions at City Hall to Mayor Koch's loss in the primary for the mayoral seat to David N. Dinkins.

Reports on New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch's plan to cut spending and close a $530 million budget deficit. Reactions of mayoral candidates; Koch's criticism of the plan of Democratic mayoral candidate David N. Dinkins.

Outlines the feelings of outgoing New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch about his job, plans for the future, and worries about employees who will be leaving jobs with him.

Reports that according to budget officials, New York City tax revenue lagged well behind expectations in the last three months and, in some cases, dropped sharply from the same period last year. Specific taxes discussed; Effect on economy; Strategy for coping; Concerns.

Part IV. Profiles the reelection campaign of New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, his troubles, and his recent comeback in the polls, aided by his personality, that has made him a co-favorite in the Democratic primary with Manhattan Borough President David N. Dinkins.

Reports on New York City mayoral candidates' debate on August 11. Opposing viewpoints on tax increases and decreases; Conflicting statistics cited. INSET: Wrapping up: 4 contenders' statements..

Reports that the New York State Commission on Government Integrity recommended broad changes in New York City's personnel system to insulate it from the political pressures and patronage evidenced by programs like Mayor Koch's Talent Bank. Reports details and recommendations; Reactions.

Reports on New York City's Mayor Edward I. Koch's unexpected formal announcement on July 13, 1989 that he plans to run for reelection. The announcement made on `Radio New York with Sherrye Henry and Gil Gross' on station WOR; Koch's election chances.

Reports on Mayor Edward I. Koch's decision to attend four debates with rivals for the Democratic mayoral nomination in New York City. Rivals' response to the limit on the number of debates; Koch's negative feelings on the value of debates.

Reports that the Koch administration has proposed a plan to raise an additional $450 million over the next five years for New York City's deteriorated school system by revising the use of surplus funds from the Municipal Assistance Corporation.Swap described; Budget requirements.

Describes changes in New York City's Human Rights Commission's anti-discrimination laws, to be proposed by the Koch administration, which are designed to make the commission more effective and possibly reduce its caseload. The executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union says he is worried that the new proposals could be used by the administration to `shirk its duties.'

Reports that New York City's Mayor Edward I. Koch has proposed a $26.6 billion budget that would provide more police officers, prosecutors and child-welfare caseworkers, more jail beds, ambulance service and smaller shelters for the homeless. Where the money will come from addressed; Taxes discussed.

Reports on New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch's hopes for a successor to Dr. Richard Green, Chancellor of the New York City school system, to be named by September. Mayoral role defined in the selection process; Influence of coinciding mayoral elections.

Reports that due to a decline in New York City revenues from several important taxes, it likely the Koch administration will have to impose the harshest service cuts since the city recovered from its fiscal crisis in 1981. Schedule of job losses;Differences between fiscal crisis conditions and conditions now delineated.

Reports on the testimony of New York City's Mayor Edward I. Koch before the State Commission on Government Integrity regarding the hiring practices of his administration. Talent Bank; Hiring irregularities.

Reports that the need for jail cells, homeless shelters, and waste treatment plants in New York City are causing shifts in spending by the Koch administration. Delays in rebuilding projects of roads, playgrounds, buildings; Tax revenues lagging.

Discussion of the role of the Charter Commission and the voters of New York City in the revision of the government of the City which is mandated by the US Supreme Court's decision that New York City's Board of Estimate is unconstitutional. INSET: Making a new government: What happens now? New York City....

Reports the statement by New York City Mayor Edward Koch on a radio talk show that he is heterosexual, causing an unexpected stir. His sexuality has been a matter of rumor in the past, and some analysts believe the casual statement on the radio show was actually a planned political maneuver as Koch's reelection campaign continues.

Reports that the percentage of New York City's population living below the poverty level has risen despite the city's economic growth. Statistics; Sources; Reactions.

New York City's Mayor Edward I. Koch has claimed that the state budget proposed by Governor Mario M. Cuomo will force his city to cut thousands of city jobs. The budget battle is shaded with the overtones of an election year, as well as with the biases of the personal rivalries of Koch and Cuomo. INSET: Steps to close the budget gap..

Presenting his sixth State of the City address, New York City Mayor Ed Koch outlined the major policy goals of his administration and sounded a warning on the difficult budgeting decisions both the city and the state of New York will face in the upcoming months. Koch called for an ambitious drive to help the homeless.

New York City Mayor Ed Koch has proposed a list of new taxes to raise $177 million and balance the city's budget. The taxes, which cover a variety of items, were carefully designed not to conflict with New York's State tax planning. Most of the new tax items will require the approval of the state government in New York.

Facing allegations that a patronage system masqueraded as an affirmative action program, Mayor Ed Koch defended the Talent Bank agency he set up in 1983. Although patronage is not illegal, Koch has repeatedly boasted that his administration did not deal in political favors. An integrity commission investigation has found that the Talent Bank actually trailed the minority hiring record of the normal administration agencies.

Outlines how mayoral candidates Edward I. Koch, Harrison J. Goldin, David N. Dinkins, and Richard Ravitch painted a gloomy picture of New York, N.Y. in their Democratic debate July 26, and what it means for incumbent Koch.

Says that New York City, which has one of the nation's most peculiar forms of government, might be headed for a system with new elements that are common elsewhere. Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., chairman of the Charter Revision Commission, said he is open to a broad restructuring of the city government and a major realignment of power. Possible changes.

Presents a special report on New York's property tax. Says that the city's property-tax system has failed, largely because assessors are not accurately measuring the market value of houses. Results of studies show that owners of less expensive houses pay proportionately higher taxes and that official estimates of value are systematically divergent from the only reliable and common-sense measure--sale prices.

Discusses New York City's health-care industry, one of the few areas of growth in the city's faltering economy. The proliferation of jobs at hospitals and clinics and the rapid growth of home care have partially offset the huge job losses in other areas, yet over all the industry's growth has provided little stimulus to the economy, and health-care jobs often offer workers only a tenuous economic foothold.

Presents a special report on theft at a New York City warehouse. Says that for years, city workers have systematically looted a huge Brooklyn warehouse containing clothing and supplies meant for poor families. The city's failure to act decisively to solve this problem raises broader questions about its ability to curb waste, corruption and mismanagement.

Says that New York City could gain hundreds of thousands of people in the 1990 census if an additional population survey conducted by the Census Bureau is used to adjust the official tally. How such an increase would benefit the city.

Discusses the loss of middle-class residents of New York City, not just to the suburbs but also to places beyond the metropolitan region. Causes for the loss; Potential for more losses in the future; Effect on the city.

Describes how New York's landscape is changing as barns and silos give way to factories and offices.

Reports how New Yorkers got a small, bitter taste of the future last week when the city closed three fire companies, the first of 41 that may eventually be shut. It also shifted traffic agents to replace more than 150 it had already lost and began laying off 280 workers in a purge that might trim more that 7,000 employees from the municipal payroll in the coming weeks.

Reports that the Dinkins administration and two large municipal unions announced a tentative labor agreement that would provide 150,000 New York City workers with a wage and benefit increase of 5 percent over 15 months, less than city teachers areto receive but more than some fiscal experts say the city should pay.

Discusses the faltering Korean commercial empire in New York City. Number of stores being closed; Reasons.

Presents forecasts for the end of the economic slump in New York City as advanced by various economists. Predictions range from 1991 to 1995.

Reports on the loss of an estimated 100,000 jobs in private industry in 1990 in the New York metropolitan region. Report of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Traces events leading to the economic hardship New York City now faces. Since June, the city has been shedding about 7,000 jobs a month. Wall Street, which propelled the city's boom, began shrinking yet the city's economy remained unaffected in the 1980s. For a few years after the stock market's plunge, the city's economy hung there until it began to fall last year.

Tells of the many empty storefronts on New York City's Fifth Avenue, parts of the Financial District and Broadway on the Upper West Side, and even on Madison Avenue, in spite of the fact that there has been a drop in rents.

Comments on the inevitability that new local taxes will be needed if New York City and State are to erase budget deficits for next year, as they must under the law. The question is: Which taxes will inflict the least harm?

Reports that in June, July and August, New York City lost 34,000 jobs in finance, real estate, insurance, manufacturing, construction, and trade. Almost 18,000 of the jobs were in private industry--the rest in government. Fear that the city maybe headed for its worst year since the mid-1970s.

Compares and contrasts the present economic situation in New York City to its costly and humiliating brush with bankruptcy fifteen years ago. City's financial monitors and independent economists say its current fiscal problems are not so severe as they were in the mid-1970s when the city, banished from the credit markets, could no longer sell notes and bonds. With his struggles to stabilize the budget, Mayor Dinkins may find himself more alone that former Mayor Abraham D. Beame.

Says that street vendors have surged back onto Fifth Avenue in New York City--until recently forbidden territory--to the dismay of some store managers. While sales in stores lag, commerce on the sidewalk is brisk.

States that a census geographer for the New York region said he believed a `substantial' number of the 254,534 dwellings the city says were missed were actually `misallocated,' which means the units were counted by the bureau but the totals were mistakenly recorded as in another location. Such errors would not affect the bureau's final population count.

Reports that New York City contends that census takers missed 254,534 housing units and claims that almost one million New Yorkers had not been counted. The city has formally challenged the 1990 population count, and has records, aerial photographs, and information from utility companies to support its claim.

Reports that economists are hard pressed to reconcile the Census Bureau's preliminary finding that New York City lost 38,000 residents over the past ten years. The census is at odds with the increase in birth rates and the wave of immigration.

Refers to an article on page B2 (Critics say Dinkins miscalculated guards' anger, by R. Levine) saying that New York City Mayor David N. Dinkins, who has been criticized in the past for his cautious, deliberate style, was faulted by some correction experts for not moving quickly and forcefully enough this week to end a job action by hundreds of correction officers at Rikers Island.

Describes the VideoTown Laundrette in Manhattan, which, in addition to washers and dryers, has a copying machine, videotapes, popcorn machine, tanning booths, and a patio, among other things.

Says that, after a decade in which they filled in the New York City skyline, some of the hard-hat workers are worrying about where or even when they will be working next. The economic slowdown that radiated from Wall Street is now hitting the construction industry.

Discusses the New York port, which has been eclipsed by Los Angeles as the nation's pre-eminent port, the result of surging trade with the Far East and changing shipping trends in this country.

Reports that New York State acquired most of the Times Square development area after a six-year legal battle. Demolition to clear the way for the $2.5 billion project could begin as early as the fall. Two lawsuits still pending.