City Council should call a short time-out
Monday afternoon, a City Council committee votes on how long to extend Madison Square Garden’s “special permit” to keep operating at its decades-long site above Penn Station; here’s why that…
Letters to the Editor — May 15, 2023
The Issue: Charges brought against Daniel Penny for employing a deadly hold on a man on the subway. Specters of daily shootings and stabbings in urban settings surely swirled within…
Letters to the Editor — May 8, 2023
The Issue: The death of a homeless man who was put into a hold after yelling at passengers on the subway. I have seen Jordan Neely hundreds of times performing…
Letters to the Editor — April 2, 2023
Attack on Citi Field Our phony, woke Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, having nothing better to do in a city with so many huge problems, wants to change the name of…
What Hochul must do to get NY’s costly and crumbling transportation back on track
From Buffalo to Brooklyn, from New York City’s subway to the state Thruway, New Yorkers have inherited sturdy transportation infrastructure. Yet the state has lost its way over the past…
Letters to the Editor — Dec. 25, 2022
Shelter chaosThe City Council must not approve the expansion of the women’s shelter on E. 45th Street (“Slay roomie sought,” Dec. 18). The history of crime and the recent murder…
Letters to the Editor — Dec. 11, 2022
Library fine nix “A fine mess” (David Kaufman, PostScript, Dec. 4) misses the point about our decision to eliminate late fines. Although the author could part with a “wad of…
Letters to the Editor —Oct. 30, 2022
Subway delusionMayor Adams calling the stabbing of a good Samaritan an outlier and highlighting the 3.5 million people who survive a subway trip “unscathed” is the epitome of ignorance (“Most…
Hochul congestion pricing hike places suffering New Yorkers in a jam
New Yorkers are these days feeling deep financial ache, with insufferable taxes, inflation hitting new highs, meals and fuel costs skyrocketing, and so they now are pressured to select between…
MTA Congestion Pricing Toll is harming middle-class citizens
City Hall has some of the best perspectives of the Brooklyn Bridge: a singular attitude of a Gilded Age marvel, with its Gothic arches and cable lattice pointing upward for…