Harlem: So close and yet SoHa?

Manhattan: I am the “grousing” person who asked for the help of Community Board 10 to halt this ridiculous rebranding of Harlem (“Grousing about SoHa is ignorant to Harlem history,” Op-Ed, June 2).

I’m not a professor, just a real estate broker who has lived in Harlem for 30 years. I know my history. Everything Jonathan Gill wrote can be found on Google. What he does not know is how I and others feel when newcomers arrive in the community and feel rebranding will improve their bottom line. Danni Tyson Baldwin, L.I.: There also happens to be a small enclave of homes in the Far Rockaway area where homeowners seem to want their area named “West Lawrence,” at least they do when they correspond with friends, family and networking contacts, that is.

Whereas when that area is eligible for those government subsidies known as mortgages, they’ll gladly use the 11691 zip code and Rockaway post office on their applications. Martin J. Birnbaum

Impeach now

King’s Park, L.I.: The ignorance of some people never ceases to amaze me. When will the rest of this country wake up from this nightmare? “You can fool some of the people some of the time but not all of the people all of the time.” If any previous President had been accused or involved in one-tenth the issues that are being played out on a daily basis, reported by all news organizations, left and right, impeachment proceedings would have been implemented by now. Enough is enough.

John Karahalis

Head of the class

Ozone Park: The bloke carrying his beer from the London terrorist attacks must have been thinking: “While all about me are losing their heads, I am keeping mine.”

Ray Hackinson

Can’t do it alone

Brooklyn: The idea that New Yorkers can unilaterally clean up their air is patently ridiculous. The clean air we produce will be over the Atlantic Ocean the next day and we will inherit Chicago and other western cities’ air. Remember that the Earth rotates to the east. We can clean up our water, our streets and infrastucture and improve transportation. We can filter and humidify or dehumidify the air in our homes but the solution to air pollution is an international issue.

Norman Scovronick

Stay in your lane, Mike

Brooklyn: Can the Daily News have Mike Lupica stick to sports only (“All ego and scare talk from Prez,” column, June 5)? Once again, like all the rest of the liberals, he’s trashing our President. Having safer borders and trying to prevent undesirables from entering our country is a bad thing? I don’t think so. By not signing the Paris agreement and having our country foot most of the bill is a bad thing? I don’t think so. Lupica is praising the British prime minister? Give me break. Let’s praise our President Donald J. Trump!

Robert Raimondi

Leaving a Mark

Bronx: To Voicer Evelyn Marrero who chooses to stop buying the Daily News because the News will not support this year’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade: Why don’t you and that useless, America hating, deplorable, City Council president crawl back under the rock you both came from? The current knucklehead in City Hall and Melissa Mark-Viverito are making New York City the cess pool it once was. I don’t always agree with the Daily News, but I believe even this press outlet drew the line when it was learned that Rivera was being hailed and celebrated. May Rivera and his champion vicar Mark-Viverito rot in hell. And you, Ms. Marrero, are an idiot. Ralph A. Manente

The parade can do better

Manhattan: Some 83 years ago, I was born in Puerto Rico. I was old enough to see people paid $5. to vote for La Pava. Soon after, my family moved to New York. I did not see people being paid to vote for anybody and I asked my Dad. His answer was short and sweet. We had moved away from a certain corrupt way of life that he did not want to become a part of ours. Oscar Lopez Rivera is part of that corrupt way of life that would pay the uneducated peasant to vote for whatever they wish that will doom them but make the crooked politician elected. He wants Puerto Rico to be as free as those who put Fidel Castro in power in Cuba. Communism runs rampart in those countries where education is lacking. That is why it is so tragic that schools in Puerto Rico are being shut down for lack of funding. If the parade was to uplift the people of P.R. and represent their pride, why not Lin Manuel Miranda, Chita Rivera or even Ricky Martin as grand marshals? This guy was part of a group that believes that in a “Free Puerto Rico” they could become kings. What we need is to have them vote for statehood, as did Hawaii that was acquired at the same time and did not have all these crackpot intruders paving a way for their own benefit.

Sonia del Rio

Terrorists of a different kind

Brooklyn: Re: “Not just a ‘terrorist’” (June 5): Juan Gonzalez burps up a bunch of irrelevant propaganda, while conveniently forgetting that the IRA,the Irgun and the ANC never killed any New Yorkers — and that some of those who were killed by FALN bombers have family members living here today. Face it, Mr. Gonzalez — Melissa Mark-Viverito rained on your parade.

David Rabinovitz

Still not rejecting violence

Manhattan: Oscar Lopez Rivera says he has “transcended violence,” yet when repeatedly given the opportunity to renounce violence during parole hearings while incarcerated for his role in FALN crimes, he refused to do so. He is the unrepentant leader and chief bomb maker of a terrorist organization that wreaked havoc on U.S. and Puerto Rican soil for 25 years. He now complains that the “focus” of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade should not be on him. The Puerto Rican people are decent, honorable people who repeatedly rejected the FALN’s effort to intimidate them into making Puerto Rico a Marxist state. It is outrageous that City Council Speaker Melissa MarkViverito has engaged in a crusade on behalf of this vile man who preyed upon them. Debra Burlin

Aiming for safety

Westbrook, Conn.: I just read the article “How to make sure your kid doesn’t get shot on a play date” (column, June 5)and found it somewhat helpful but rather incomplete. One important emphasis should have been on the role of the parent of the visiting child to instruct their child to never get near a gun. Although the NRA is frequently demonized, that organization has been in the forefront of gun safety for generations. Their “Eddie Eagle” program, which they offer free to schools, instructs children: “If you see a gun, leave the area immediately and notify an adult!” This simple rule, drummed into a child’s brain, might avert the many tragedies we hear about today. James Nihill ANGUS MORDANT

Radical Islam is the problem

Putnam Valley, N.Y.: Be honest. Clay Higgins is talking about radical Islam — not insulting a religion; it is a group of murderers (“Congressman posts call to arms on Facebook for Holy War versus radical Islam,” June 5). Why is killing innocent people, many Catholic men, women and children, okay? He did not insult Muslims, he spoke of radical Islamists. So please leave out the attack on religion; it is embarrassing. Maybe Higgins does not articulate this the way you choose, but he’s to be appreciated based on his willingness to stand up. I agree with him. He is seeing people all over the world being killed because they don’t agree with radical Islam.

Josephine Murphy

A not so gay old time

Sanford, Fla.: Of all the absurd anti-Trump articles, this one sits at the top (“Donald Trump is no friend to the gays,” column, June 5). It’s The News that is spreading hate, not our President. There is absolutely zero evidence that President Trump is “no friend to the gays.” This opinion piece is far from factual news, but I guess you don’t need facts to smear the President’s name. Sadly, many people reading this article assume that you’ve done due diligence and have your facts in order. Stop dividing our country, please.

Jeff Jefcoat