Parking placards: one more scam
Brooklyn: I agree 100% with Errol Louis’ column (“NYC’s parking placard farce,” May 23). Not only is the problem of illegal parking rampant, but it is now an accepted practice. And this has a negative effect on people who are law-abiding and park legally. Adding to the abuses that Louis’ column mentions: trucks parked for days and are not ticketed because they have commercial plates and cars left on the street with illegal plates or no plates at all.
Traffic enforcement does a great job but they need help and support of other law enforcement agencies and Mayor de Blasio. If he truly wants his Vision Zero program to be successful (and it has been effective), he must enforce all aspects of it. That includes illegal parking, even if it is an election year; it’s good for our neighborhoods. Matt Percia Bronx: Errol Louis conveniently left out press plates. These plates are on cars and vans parked in bus stops, crosswalks, sidewalks and even in front of hydrants. I have never seen a paid meter ticket displayed on the dashboard of a vehicle that has a press registration. Is there a reason why press-registered vehicles were left out of the column? Please get back to me with an answer. Eric Karl
Teachers follow parking rules
Woodside: In Errol Louis’ condemnation of issuing city employees parking permits, he begins with the mayor’s decision to give city teachers and paraprofessionals parking permits. Teachers are only allowed to park in legally labelled spots for Department of Education employees. They do not park in front of bus stops, fire hydrants or crosswalks. Surely, we do not double-park at school buildings. If Louis has a problem with these permits, please don’t include teachers with those who abuse their permits. My co-workers and I follow the parking rules.
JoEllen Miner
No to terror
Bayside: Bravo, Daily News, for pulling your sponsorship from the Puerto Rican Day Parade (“The News and the parade,” editorial, May 25). Now, if you could get our City Council, mayor and governor in line. They represent us, and New Yorkers will never tolerate terrorism.
Albert Lynch
Sit it out
Astoria: Finally, a good decision by the Daily News! Two thumbs up! In a week where terrorists blew up innocent children in England, why on Earth would anyone still think a New York parade should honor an unrepentant terrorist? Oscar López Rivera was given the opportunity to get out of jail 20 years ago by President Bill Clinton, on the condition that he renounce violence, but he refused! No New York official should attend, including the mayor. Tim Austin
Right move
San Juan, P.R.: Thanks for withdrawing. We can’t endorse this behavior in our society.
Jorge Pérez
Wrong move
Manhattan: Thank you for not supporting the parade. We don’t need you and we will stop buying your paper. Evelyn Marrero
No to violence
Myrtle Beach, S.C.: As an African-American who profoundly detests the wounding or killing of innocent people as a means of protest, I applaud the Daily News, the Yankees and others who are withdrawing from their support of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. I also commend you for still supporting the scholarships. I was born and raised in New York City, the greatest city in the world. I retired as an MTA train operator and moved south, but every day until I die, I read the Daily News by way of its website. Like New York City — the best city in the world — it’s the best newspaper in the world! Michael Wright
Unfair headline
Forest Hills: I am anti-Trump, but as a retired editor as well as someone who visited Yad Vashem two years ago, I find your twisted headline — turning Trump’s note into something ridiculous to suit your editorial preferences — appalling (“Trump goes to Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, says he had an ‘amazing’ time ‘with all of my friends,’” May 23). You must realize that in his note, President Trump meant that Yad Vashem and the experience there were amazing. You know he didn’t mean it was an amazing time hanging out with pals. You’re insulting the dignity of a memorial that honors both those lost and the righteous non-Jews who saved their Jewish fellow human beings. The Daily News with this untrue headline also is crying wolf, so that when you report on something true about this dangerous President, we’ll be less likely to believe it. Please don’t let the circus of this presidency turn your coverage into a joke. Thank you for your time and attention.
Rebecca Herman
Old-school wisdom needed
Manhattan: I was taken aback to see a letter from Voicer Frank Van Riper commenting on, of all things, a British McDonald’s ad in Saturday’s paper. Wasn’t he the Daily News’ Washington bureau chief some years ago? Ask him to write about what it was like to cover Congress and the White House back then compared to today. We could use some historical perspective these days from someone who knows what he’s talking about and who can remind us how our government functioned not so long ago.
Steve Simon
Look who made it!
Mohegan Lake, N.Y.: With the President on his overseas trip, I was flipping between CNN, Fox and MSNBC. I found it interesting that while Fox was covering the President, the other two were still bashing him. CNN was still on the Russia connection and James Comey. MSNBC, meanwhile, had people talking about how he supposedly bowed to the Saudi king while he was getting a medal, and how there was a lack of protesters. It is amazing how simple-minded these people are, as are their viewers who think they’re getting fair reporting. Let’s see if this makes the paper.
Arthur Hastings
Love it or leave it
Staten Island: To Voicer Sherwin Levey: If you don’t like freedom of speech, why don’t you go live in Russia or China?
Victor R. Stanwick
Off-track MTA
Kew Gardens: The problem with the way on-time performance is measured has little to do with the exclusive reliance on terminal arrivals (“Not even trying,” May 22). What’s wrong is that it only counts the number of trains that are later than an arbitrary cutoff, totally ignoring how late they are: a grumble-inducing six-minute delay counts the same as a plainmissing half hour. This strange metric leads to the railroad dispatchers’ maxim, “Never make on-time train late for a train that’s already late,” resulting in their holding a train full of seriously late commuters already fretting about their NJ Transit connections or important meetings to avoid putting another train six minutes behind schedule, a minor delay with few consequences for most passengers. Earth to MTA: You’re transporting people, not playing with a model train layout. On-time performance needs to be measured in a way that reflects the impact on passengers.
Harvey Wachtel
Lack of respect
Fanwood, N.J.: Going to work Tuesday morning, I passed the memorial for Alyssa Elsman, young victim of the Times Square ANTHONY DELMUNDO madman. With tears in my eyes, I said a prayer as any other parent like myself or any other compassionate person would do. Going home, Lord only knows how, I kept my mouth shut as I watched people taking pictures and selfies as if the site were some sort of tourist attraction. Appalling!
Ken Scheu
Owning Obamacare
Brooklyn: To Voicer Richard Doll: False! The Republicans and Donald Trump will own the increases in health care costs and the millions of people who will no longer be able to obtain coverage at all. It is they who have pulled the financial support out of the system by revising the tax code that supported the Affordable Care Act. It is they who are cutting the funding for Medicaid. It is they who have created an exhaustive list of pre-existing conditions that can push an individual into an expensive high-risk insurance pool, or off the insurance rolls altogether. They are destroying a viable program that needed improvement, not gutting. You cannot blame Obama for this one.
Eve Martinez
High cost of affordability
Brooklyn: I keep hearing the word “affordable” — “affordable care act,” “affordable housing,” etc. Not everyone makes enough money. There are decent, hardworking people, two parents working that cannot afford the so- called “affordable” items!
Joan Defazio