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Ex-N.Y. Mayor in Hospital

<i> Newsday</i>

Former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins was moved to a hospital in Charleston, S.C., for treatment of a blocked heart artery.

“And with luck, I’ll be back on the tennis court next week,” the 68-year-old former mayor said in a telephone conversation Tuesday.

Dinkins was taken to the hospital when he fell ill after playing two hours of tennis Sunday. He was on a six-day tennis vacation at the Hilton Head resort.

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