Fear of Fearless Girl is just bull

Manhattan: The Daily News’ editorial on April 13, “A load of bull: ‘Charging Bull’ had a good run, so who’s afraid of ‘Fearless Girl’? claims that “all (Fearless Girl) is doing is staring (Charging Bull) down.” In other words, she stands defiant, challenging a statue symbolizing a bullish economy. Some of us have 401(k)s, pensions and other investments dependent upon a bull market. Why this is lost on your paper, investment firms, a mayor, and other “Fearless Girl” supporters is a mystery.

Gilbert Colon Franklin Square, L.I.: So the sculptor of the “Charging Bull” statue on Wall St. is so intimidated by another piece of art facing his creation that he’s threatening a lawsuit? Since when do artists complain about sharing space with other art? Why not just turn the little girl around so she’s facing out toward the rest of the city, while the big, bad bull remains posed ominously as her bronze backup? Michael O’Connell

Hudson Park is protected

Manhattan: Regarding your April 1 editorial, “Dis-a-piering act at Pier 55”: The reason the judge found the water site illegal is that the state has rightly declared the water in Hudson River Park a “sanctuary” protected against development to safeguard wildlife and the public’s ability to engage in boating and other water-based recreation. Those are worthy objectives and legally enforceable. The park’s management has no authority to violate them. Michael S. Gruen, President

The City Club of New York

Another store bites the dust

Sunnyside: March 30 was an unfortunate day for the people who either live or work in lower Manhattan. It was the last day for the Chambers St. Taste-de-Lite store. It was a great privilege to have that store on the block, and its owner Mohammed was always so pleasant to all of his customers. The closing of his store just provides another example of how hard it is for small business owners to make a living in New York City. John Francis Fox

Texting and driving tragedy

Dunkirk, N.Y.: I am now paralyzed from the waist down due to someone who was texting and driving. I was hurt so badly at the scene they called for the coroner. The woman who did this to me has never said sorry. Nothing. I have to live in a nursing home because of it. Kelly Sam

Tell good Brownsville stories

Brooklyn: I was once a child in Brownsville, and I still live in Brownsville. I went to Harvard. I’m on Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2017. I’m a 2016 Echoing Green Fellow. I’m being honored next month by Colin and Alma Powell’s non-profit America’s Promise Alliance with a People of Promise Award. Instead of writing “no hope” articles that youth who live in this neighborhood internalize and have to deal with when they go to school, how about telling stories of success and hope? Or better yet, let us tell our own stories. We tend to be more tactful when we do.

Quardean Lewis-Allen

Get him outta here

Edison, N.J.: If President Trump is such a good negotiator, now is the time to negotiate his resignation before they have a chance to impeach him. Carole Canace

Sled dogs doing what they love

Monroe, Wash.: I am a dog musher. I was not always one, so I can see this issue from both sides. Animal rights activists pitted against the Iditarod Sled Dog Race do not understand that sled dogs entering the race are the best cared-for dogs in the world. These dogs receive the best medical care, best food, best care in their kennels and dog yards, and the most loving attention from their mushers. And they are doing what they were born to do and love the most — run long distances. This is something that animal rights activists opposed to the Iditarod cannot wrap their minds around. I believe this is because they deny these dogs’ true nature. They are a distinctly different species from humans, and they have physical and even psychic abilities that surpass ours. They want to be out there to run as far and as long as they can. The Iditarod Trail Committee makes safety for sled dogs the highest priority.

Cathy Zylstra

Le Cirque left a bad taste

Brooklyn: Le Cirque says that the restaurant is coming back from bankruptcy. Who really cares about this overpriced joint? The name says it all — “The Circus.” Only clowns went there.

Jay Hirsch

Get a local to fix FDR’s car

Rockaway Beach: I think it’s a good idea to have the car FDR drove in Albany restored (“Gov. Cuomo to restore 1932 state car used by Franklin Roosevelt,” March 28): It’s a great piece of history. But I just don’t understand why Cuomo could’t find a company in New York State to do the restoration. Ray Hickey

Subway staircase stinks

Brooklyn: How is it that a subway stairwell like the one at Utica Ave. on the A train line can accumulate what is clearly years of gunk, when the MTA has a maintenance crew, equipment and tons of paying customers? The MTA needs to cough up some revenue for heavy cleanings. This staircase is foul and a total embarrassment and it’s not the only example.

Diane Pagen

People are still slobs

Bronx: I cannot believe that in the year 2017, people are still throwing their trash in the street, sidewalk and highways. Also, people are not picking up after their pets. Disgraceful. Mary Caggiano

Where’s that money going?

Marmaduke, Ariz.: Why does the Vice President of the United States have an expense budget for breaking ties in the Senate? According to the current budget (2016-17), the vice president has an expense budget of $18,760. Someone will have to explain this to me. The only responsibility which the vice president has is breaking ties when the Senate vote is 50-50. I’d like an accounting of this ridiculous use of our tax dollars. How about you?

Robert Butler

A ‘Hall’ of a disgrace

Floral Park, N.Y.: I am in total agreement with Voicer Fred Schneider — it is a disgrace that Tupac Shakur was voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, especially since I recently found out that Neil Sedaka — who had his first hit in 1957 and went on to have many more and sell millions of records over the years — has never been inducted. Were his hits too wholesome and clean to be voted in by the nominating committee? A disgrace indeed.

Margaret Stein

Worst-case scenario

Union, N.J.: Here’s a scenario for all the United Airlines supporters in regards to the passenger who was dragged off a flight: You have an important interview tomorrow. You go to the store and find the perfect outfit. It’s the last one in your size. You select it, take it to the register and pay for it. On your way out of the store, a salesperson comes up and says, “I have to take that back because a fellow employee really needs it.” I suppose you would just cheerfully hand it back and accept a voucher for when the store re-stocks it the day after your important interview? No, I’m sure you, too, would fight to keep your purchase, and to say otherwise would be lying. Lou Alt

Remember Branch Rickey, too

South Farmingdale, L.I.: Every year on Jackie Robinson Day, Major League Baseball players and coaches honor him by wearing his old Brooklyn Dodgers number 42. How about a little “B.R.” on one of the sleeves for Branch Rickey, the Dodgers executive who signed Robinson? I grew up a diehard Dodgers fan in those days. Without Branch Rickey, there would be no Jackie Robinson. Ralph Buffalino

Big fan of fur

AP Portland, N.Y.: Re “Alicia Machado strips down for PETA ad — ‘I’d rather go naked than wear fur” (April 12): I am sick and tired of people who would like to go naked instead of wearing fur. The animals they are trying to protect are minks and weasels. According to the Universal Standard Encyclopedia, “Unlike many other carnivores, the mink kills not only for food, but also for sport.” A weasel, the encyclopedia says, is a “fearless, bloodthirsty creature which preys on mice, rats, birds, and rabbits…and apparently kills for pleasure, sometimes destroying more than it can eat.” Are these the animals you want to protect? If it weren’t for fur, we would still be living in Mesopotamia.

J.V. Presogna