Better Location
To the Editor:
In response to “Neighbors Won’t See the Light of New Cancer Center” (Jan. 26), I must speak up for my building (440 E. 62nd St.) and the community of the Upper East Side. Your account of the meeting was different than what I witnessed and missed or dismissed the most important points. Those points are: Read more
Rent Misdirection
To the Editor:
After reading about the Harmon family’s “plight” regarding rent-regulated tenants (“Landlord Supreme Power on Rent,” Dec. 15) and Harmon’s legal efforts to challenge rent regulations, I feel that I have to respond.
I am the president of the block association where the Harmons reside and know them as I knew Harmon’s parents when they lived here decades ago. Read more
Sorry for the “Inconvenience”
To the Editor:
Regarding an “Open Letter to OWS” (Nov. 24), I guess Mrs. Merkl has forgotten that real change is not easy, that it’s messy and that sometimes people are unintentionally hurt, yes, and even inconvenienced along the way.
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A Senior Safety Hazard
To the Editor:
79th Street and York Avenue is a very busy, hazardous four-way intersection. It’s confusing in that the signals don’t correspond in the traditional pattern that all pedestrians recognize and expect. Instead, when the traffic signal is red on the north side of York to stop southbound traffic, at the same time the signal is green on the south side of the avenue, allowing northbound traffic to continuing driving! Confusing and irrational? You bet! Pedestrians start crossing only to become startled by whizzing cars, trucks and buses coming at them from the opposite side. Fragile and disabled seniors afraid to cross here must walk one block farther for normal, safer crossing. Complaints to the DOT have resulted in signage warnings of little help to the vision impaired that are no substitute for safer signal lights.
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Manhattan GOP Gone the Way of Dodos
To the Editor:
“Paul Niehaus Throws Hat in Ring for Bing’s Seat,” (July 21) is a decade too late.
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Sharing School Space
To the Editor:
I credit Public Advocate Bill de Blasio for trying to get public and charter schools to share limited space (“Learning to Co-exist,” July 28). However, public schools are aware of the unequal allocation of scarce resources that the charters benefit from.
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Medicare and Social Security Aren’t Bargaining Chips
To the Editor:
As members of Congress and President Obama seek a resolution to the nation’s fiscal woes, seniors in New York and around the country must not be sacrificed for the sake of a stronger balance sheet.
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Insurance Reform We Really Need
To the Editor:
I have been practicing law in New York for eight years (“Big Bucks in Auto Fraud,” July 14) and have represented more than 1,000 injured people during that time. I have never encountered a case involving a staged accident or insurance fraud. I asked several well-respected attorneys who have practiced law for many years, and none have personally come across an incident involving a staged accident or insurance fraud.
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West Side Stories Wanted
To the Editor:
I am a history teacher at the Beacon School and I will be teaching a New York City history class to seniors this fall on the history of the West 60s and San Juan Hill. I am particularly interested in having my students interview people who lived in the neighborhood before Robert Moses’ “urban renewal” and the construction of Lincoln Center and the Fordham campus, or people who spent a lot of time in the neighborhood as students at Haaren HS, Power Memorial or the parish school at St. Paul the Apostle. The neighborhood has filled and emptied several times over the past century as African Americans, Irish Americans, Caribbean immigrants, Puerto Rican migrants and others have come (and gone), and there are a lot of questions that my students and I have about what the neighborhood was like and how it has changed.
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Let Cuomo Finish Job
To the Editor:
Andrew Cuomo just got here (“The Son Also Rises,” June 30), and you want to send him off on the campaign trail before he has completed even half of his first term as governor? Yes, as you say, he’s a political star on a meteoric rise, but in Albany, not necessarily Sacramento and everywhere in between those two capitols.
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