Manhattan: Dear Mayor Adams: For many New Yorkers, myself amongst them, Central Park is the inexperienced house the place one can get pleasure from a stupendous setting, get much-needed train, unwind and de-stress. In the previous few years, nonetheless, Central Park has change into traumatic and harmful. It takes a great deal of fortitude to step inside its bounds.
Mopeds, electrical bikes, electrical scooters, electrical skateboards and full-on bikes now dominate the bike lane, vying for house in what was once a leisure zone. Now it’s a freeway. Also inside this lane are horse carriages, pedicabs, park employee autos, velocity cyclists and rollerbladers. The electrical bikes and scooters function at dangerously quick speeds. When crowded, the drivers of the wheeled gadgets haven’t any compunction about going over into the a lot smaller stroll/run lane — generally even in the wrong way!
The Bridle Trail, which might be the solely place runners could be on soil versus concrete or asphalt, will get scores of clueless bicyclists. No bikes are allowed! This coverage isn’t enforced, and I’ve seen many a bicyclist wheel proper previous a manned police SUV with impunity. The different day, I crossed at the park by 59th St. and Broadway, and a automotive went proper by the pink mild and virtually hit me. I seemed up at the police car parked throughout the road. They didn’t see it; they have been too busy their telephones. I do know that the mayor can’t be anticipated to micromanage each situation that happens in our nice metropolis. However, that is an merchandise that I believe wants his consideration. Denise Kim
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: I get pleasure from studying Leonard Greene and appreciated his column on Ed Koch (”Even with all his faults, Koch deserves his privateness,” May 15). Yes, Ed deserves his privateness and so does everybody else. Who cares about another person’s love object or sexual accomplice? Really, is that this so vital to the public? I’ve a particular vantage level about Koch. From 1985 to ’90, I used to be the weekend chef at Gracie Mansion (BTW, regardless of newspaper accounts, there are not any ghosts or spirits there). In addition to cooking for Ed and his company, a part of my duties included making his mattress and gathering his laundry in his bed room. Should I’ve seemed for indicators of “gay activity”? I actually loved cooking for the mayor and I revered his work. I additionally discovered him to be real, that means he was the identical persona in public as in personal. I cannot discuss his sexual orientation because it was irrelevant. Maybe folks have to work on bettering their very own intercourse lives as a substitute of questioning about others’. Steven Goldfinger
Maspeth: To Voicer Cecilia Rella: You are so proper! People have misconstrued so many harmless remarks or a pleasant contact. While watching the previous sport reveals on tv, I seen so many hosts (together with our beloved Alex Trebek or “kissy” Richard Dawson) give a hug, put an arm round or provide a praise to feminine contestants. I by no means as soon as noticed lascivious conduct in these actions. People must cease seeing harassment in all places. Believe me, having been on the receiving finish of each sorts of behaviors, I clearly was in a position to discern what was pleasant and what was not. Veronica Kwiecinski
Brooklyn: To Voicer Don Schwarz: Did you not learn the a part of the story that acknowledged the turd Payton Gendron was sporting physique armor? What would a “Saturday Night Special” have finished? June Lowe
Brooklyn: The NRA and its allies consistently declare that having good guys with weapons is the greatest strategy to cease mass killings. The final two mass killings confirmed that that is incorrect. In the Buffalo incident, a skilled officer had a gun however was killed. In a California church, an unarmed particular person ended the slaughter. Timing is the most vital component, not the weapon itself. Alan Podhaizer
Staten Island: People are being shot on a each day foundation. It doesn’t matter the place — California, New York or wherever else — individuals are being killed. After the Buffalo taking pictures, President Biden requires unity and prayers, not a phrase about gun management. I might suppose that this topic could be at the prime of his agenda but it surely wasn’t. Whoever is writing his speeches ought to be fired (I don’t wish to sound like President Trump) however doesn’t he learn them earlier than he speaks? The Democrats have management of Congress and nothing is being finished about gun management. Instead of combating with the Republicans, attempt to do what’s greatest for our nation. The identical goes for the Republicans. Are there any extra actual Democrats or Republicans? Thomas Bell
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Staten Island: I could also be echoing many others, however there’s no means in Hell, if the shooter scumball had been Black, the police wouldn’t have torn him to shreds with gunfire upon seeing him. Yet this man is alive with out a scratch. So strive telling me the police usually are not squarely on the aspect of the white supremacist items of crap. The proof is simply too overwhelming and blatant. Tom McGuire
Newton, N.J.: Does Fox News provide psychological well being counseling to its workers? Because Tucker Carlson is desperately in want of that — or higher but, a lobotomy. Michael Schnackenberg
Camden, N.J.: In the wake of the taking pictures tragedy in Buffalo, on my private social media web page, I steered we nominate Benjamin Crump for the subsequent class of Nobel Prize winners. His steadfastness in addressing considerations in our Black group is excellent. Wayne E. Williams
Bronx: I’m a employee in the state workplace constructing on one hundred and twenty fifth St. in Manhattan. This constructing is open to the public for a lot of providers, similar to psychological well being. When I got here to work on Monday, I seen one in every of the safety doorways was not locking and knowledgeable the powers that be for the security of the workers of coloration. It’s unlucky that Albany didn’t discover our considerations to be of significance and didn’t even trouble to reply the electronic mail or repair the door. Glad to know Albany has its employees’ security a prime precedence. Kenneth Joe
Howard Beach: Why would extraterrestrials contact us? We haven’t solved our violence or hatred points, many people have deserted reality for political conspiracies and psychological sickness is uncontrolled. Many amongst us want leisure medication to non-public growth. If extraterrestrials have a first-rate directive, it is likely to be to keep away from primitive planets like ours. Ernest Kienzle
Tarrytown, N.Y.: According to the article in your newspaper (”Shooter defended,” May 13), officer Dennis Vargas had been the topic of 39 job-related complaints, with 12 of them verified. Another man is useless at the palms of this officer, which can or is probably not justified. Why is Vargas nonetheless on the police drive with so many previous complaints? I hope the NYPD does background checks on the folks they rent in the future. Barbara Angelini
Brooklyn: Frank Huyler’s coronary heart could also be in the proper place (“Putin, Zelenskyy and the dangerous stories we tell,” op-ed, May 15) however he hasn’t a clue about having to take care of Vladimir Putin. Huyler speaks of “reckless Western escalation.” But the Western powers have bent over backward for greater than twenty years to accommodate Putin. How is that reckless? Huyler makes a case for much more prolonged diplomacy. Trouble is, it doesn’t work if you’re coping with a psychopath. War is what occurs when diplomacy fails. Yes, it’s extraordinarily harmful, however every little thing else has fallen by the wayside. Zelenskyy is probably not as good as Huyler would really like, however at the second, he’s the greatest that Ukraine and the world have. Huyler says that Zelenskyy is “peddling a narrative.” Get over it. Leaders, good and dangerous, are at all times peddling a story. That’s what leaders do. Huyler fails to know the implications of human nature. Nick Smith