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NYC special prosecutor protects this community
Manhattan: Re “Shut down the NYC special narcotics prosecutor” (op-ed, Aug. 30): The Lenox to 5th 124th Street Block Association would like to express our deepest support for the Office of the Special Prosecutor for Narcotics, Bridget Brennan, and her entire staff. While Marilyn Reyes is worthy of our utmost respect for putting her life back together and for her aggressive advocacy on behalf of those still undone by substance abuse, we can not support giving a free hand to those who profit from the shattered lives of others.
Our association was created partly in response to a dramatic uptick in drug activity in our community over the past decade. We support addiction recovery programs. But we also believe that our children should be able to move freely without having to navigate the vagaries of the drug trade. Residents should be able to come and go without fear of being mugged or robbed. The biggest factor has been the drug dealers, who ruthlessly prey on addicts and defy every effort of our local police precincts to keep them out of our community.
Brennan’s office has worked with our association and our many partners to make treatment centers and public officials more responsive to community concerns, helped to increase dialogue and cooperation with our precincts and sponsored programs that increased public safety and provided wholesome outlets for our children in the summer. We emphatically do not support disbanding the Office of the Special Prosecutor, which would allow those who traffic in darkness to run rampant. Stephan McKinney
Quit dumping
Brooklyn: Why do New Yorkers constantly say, “Get out of New York while you can” or “New York is going downhill”? If you want to leave so badly, go! You are part of the problem. Rather than trying to help improve New York for younger generations like mine, you’d rather turn your back on your home. If you have the means to leave, fine, but if not, don’t call the place a dump. You’re just complaining and I’m tired of being your audience. Isabelle Mele
Give it teeth
Brooklyn: Local Law 97 is New York City’s Green New Deal for buildings, the nation’s most important local climate and jobs program. If effectively implemented, it will create thousands of jobs, lower energy bills and reduce air pollution while helping meet our climate goals. Yet, Mayor Adams chose to bestow a generous gift upon his real estate lobby donors — his proposed rules contain massive loopholes that jeopardize enforcement of the law. This summer, with its toxic air pollution, punishing heat waves, massive wildfires and devastating storms, was a deadly reminder that we are living in a climate crisis. Food & Water Watch calls on the mayor to meet the urgency of the moment by withdrawing his weak rules and proposing new ones that serve the interests of working New Yorkers, not his billionaire cronies. Eric Weltman
Doctor’s orders
Davie, Fla.: To Voicer Linda Guidice: We were not forced to get a COVID vaccination, it was strictly voluntary and recommended by our health professionals. The decision was yours and yours alone. Alan Abriss
Bugged out
Brooklyn: Ladybugs are a symbol of luck, whereas their counterparts, lantern flies, are good for nothing but a bad mood. Lantern flies are invasive and must all die! They have some nerve to exist where we do. That’s all. Avion Henry
Ominous experience
Rockaway: My mom has Aetna Medicare. She didn’t know any better, she worked for 1199. I am watching my mom dwindle in a nursing home rehab. The better rehabs are not in network. She has no money. Her pension and Social Security benefits go to the rehab because in order to stay, she had to go on Medicaid. She couldn’t stay in her own home because the plan doesn’t cover nursing and aides. Recently, she was hospitalized, and the game of the day is “admitted for observation.” As long as she is in observation, we can’t switch her rehab. I work for the city and I am reaching retirement age. I’m hopeful that I will not be forced to use Aetna. Patricia J. McCabe
Get rolling
Brooklyn: I know a surefire way for the city to make millions of dollars in fines: Install cameras on the front of the street sweepers during alternate-side parking days. These violators have no regard for rules and prevent our streets from being cleaned, since the odds of receiving a summons is usually in their favor. I know trying to ticket these offenders is a big job for the parking violations workers, so having a camera on the trucks would help make these rules more effective and make the violators pay. Mary Somoza
Further back
Staten Island: To Voicer Bob Sterner: If Vladimir Putin had been stopped from invading and annexing Georgia in 2008, we wouldn’t be fighting to block his putsch to reunite the USSR today. John Ottrando
No can do
Bronx: Is Voicer Lisa DeSantis an American or from a foreign country herself? Suggesting that we draft immigrants and send them to Ukraine shows that she doesn’t know that we haven’t had a draft in decades, and that we are not at war with Russia. I don’t know if she is in the MAGA cult, but she is clearly ignorant enough to be. Randall Borra
Sick of it
Brooklyn: Enough already about Donald Trump! Why don’t they just lock him up? He is trying to become another Kim Jong Un or Vladimir Putin. He wants to be in power for life. He will destroy and demolish everything this country stands for. This man is sick. He should be locked up for life. And do the same for Kevin McCarthy. He had to kiss everyone’s backside to become speaker of the House. Joe Saberito
Stand-up guy
Manhattan: Mike Pence stood up to the Trump rioters when they invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, risking his life at that time to certify Joe Biden as new president of the United States. He followed the Constitution. Republicans who believe in that today should do the same by nominating Pence instead of Trump for president. Eric Holcomb, the governor of Indiana since 2017, supports Pence for the nomination. Regardless of political preferences, our nation needs capable candidates who won’t try to overturn the country’s will if they happen to lose. Alan D. Lehrer
Focus on self-focus
Mineola, L.I.: Voicer Nick DiPasquale states President Biden “only cares about himself”! Is he implying that Trump does not only care about himself? Philip Martone
Titular transgression
Sebastian, Fla.: Truth Social is an oxymoron. Harold Lichtman
That was quick
Carle Place, L.I.: Ah, Aaron Rodgers, we hardly knew ye. Rudy Rosenberg
Left vulnerable
Old Bridge, N.J.: Did it never occur to Jets’ ownership/management that Rodgers would be a huge target for every team the Jets played this season? I’m a female senior citizen and even I knew that protecting him on the field should have been of the utmost importance. Janet Cecin
Divine warning
Woodcliff Lake, N.J.: To Victor R. Stanwick: You are the one who is not reading your Bible. You pick out little quotes here and there and take them out of context. Try reading Deuteronomy 28:43-53, it will explain to you exactly what will happen to us if we allow foreigners to invade our land. God keeps his promises. Kathy Renken
Get real
Yonkers: To Voicer Judith Cunningham, who suggests I read the immigration laws before I complain about students not being vaccinated or tested: I was in law enforcement for 25 years and I dealt with many immigration issues. You are the one who is ignorant if you think all of the border-crossers have been tested and vaccinated. And please, don’t play the race card with me. You don’t know me. I knew as an officer that my job wasn’t about arresting people but helping them, no matter what their immigration status was. Nicholas Maffei
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