Farewell to good mayor’s campaign

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Glen Oaks Village: It’s sad that Mike Bloomberg left the presidential race. He offered good ideas and showed a great deal of concern for the American people. I worked on his campaign when he ran as a Republican in his first campaign for mayor and was proud that I did. I think he did a good job and believe he truly loved the people who he served. I have written him a number of letters about my concerns and he always responded with a reply that answered my questions on what he had done and was going to get done. Mayor Mike Bloomberg, you have done good. Thanks for trying to make New York a good place to live, work and go to school. Keep on trying to get your voice heard for the good of the American people. Frederick R. Bedell Jr.

Metuchen, N.J.: Just think, Mike Bloomberg, you could have gone down in history as the greatest rich man in the world who put all those wasted millions into housing for the poor and homeless. You could have built homes. Now you will be remembered as a spoiled rich man who thinks his money can buy everything. Sorry, our democracy is not for sale.

Carol Hoousendove

Selective memory

Brooklyn: Isn’t it ironic and hypocritical of the president to mock Elizabeth Warren for not carrying her home state of Massachusetts in the Democratic primary? I imagine his short term memory is so impaired that he forgets that he decisively lost his hometown city and state of New York to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Donald Kempler

Monkey see, monkey do

Brooklyn: If a chimpanzee was running for president against Donald J. Trump in the 2020 election, I would vote for the chimp in a New York minute!

Nancy D. Bennett

Unhappy customer

Nutley, N.J.: Americans, are you as confused as I am? Who’s paying (our?) Attorney General Bill Barr’s salary? Is it Trump or is it us, the taxpayers of the United States? It should be Trump since Trump is Barr’s only client.

Elaine Bucino

Not laughing

Shirley, L.I.: The March 3 Bramhall’s World hit a new low. Trivializing suicide by jumping off a bridge for the far left by the possibility of Karl Marx a.k.a. Bernie Sanders winning the Democratic presidential nomination. His support base is Alexandria O-crazy-O Cortez. That pretty much sums it up right there. I know that your paper

is very anti-Donald Trump but guess what? All these imbeciles dividing the Democrats are just guaranteeing another four more years of the greatest presidency in modern years. God bless America and God bless Donald Trump.

Steven Brownworth

Spread the love

Whitestone: The most beautiful sight is a smile — on a baby, on a mother who worries everyday, on a father who gives his all, on the elderly who are lonely, on the sick when there’s no hope. Go out today and share your love and put a smile on someone’s face. You will feel so rewarded that you too will smile.

Sally Defelice

Subway blues

Lindenhurst, L.I.: Walk into a subway station and you are greeted by the smell of urine. People are coughing and sneezing. The MTA expects the blind and visually impaired to touch braille signs. How unsanitary can you get? The subway is filth personified. Braille signs are good; however, keeping them clean is the problem. Harvey Beyer

Clean team

Cornwall, N.Y.: Wow! It takes the coronavirus for the MTA to finally clean the subway system. Maybe the virus is not that bad a thing. Let’s see how much overtime the MTA milks out of this.

Raymond Grosskopf

Embrace it

Manalapan, N.J.: Since my recent retirement, I’ve been called reclusive, aloof, a misanthrope. All true! Thanks to the virus though, I now have a temporarily acceptable, politically correct description of my conduct: “Social Distancing.”

Telemedicine

Greenburgh, N.Y.: Health officials are suggesting that those with cold and flu symptoms don’t go to the doctor or emergency room. If they have temperature or have breathing problems, they should reach out to their doctor who will advise them if they should go to the emergency room. I think this is stressful for many people who worry about coronavirus. My suggestion: Hospitals and doctors should conduct video appointments with patients who may not be very sick but might want some reassurances from a qualified doctor that they should ride out their illness without getting tested for the virus.

Don’t pass ‘Go’

Ellery Kane

Paul Feiner

Mahwah, N.J.: Thanks to the governor and mayor for making New York City into another Dodge City. The streets are very dangerous! Sure, give the mayor and his wife some more money to squander without any responsibility! Nice going. Their parents must be turning over in their graves! Eileen Wright

Pachamama

Brooklyn: James E. M. Watson’s “Saving endangered species” (op-ed, March 3) rightly echoes the growing conservationist mindset which is ecocentric in focus. You can’t save a species without saving its critical habitat — the core meaning of the landmark U.S Endangered Species Act of 1973. But with 1% left of wildlife on Earth during the present extinction crisis, the only political will of the Trump administration has been to cripple the very conservation laws which have saved the bald eagle. Fake wealth can never displace Earth’s wealth. Only humility will save humanity, when the politics of conservation returns to science and the realization that the fate of ecosystems is our fate too.

Jeffrey Kramer

No incentives

Richmond, Va.: I understand plastic items are made from petroleum oil. Why do we recycle used oil, paper, cardboard

/EDUARDO MUNOZ ALVAREZ/AP and glass, but not plastic bags too? Most stores here in Virginia put the merchandise one buys in a plastic bag and there is, so far, no charge for the bags. If we can send a man to the moon with the technology we have in this country, why can’t plastic of every kind be recycled?

Marty Goodman

N.I.M.B.Y.

Malverne, L.I.: Calls to “Shutter NYC’s storefront slaughterhouses” (op-ed, March 2) are long overdue. Just last year, Long Island authorities denied the construction of one of these death markets in Islip after the owner of F&D Live Poultry in Jamaica wanted to expand his bloody business to the suburbs. An investigation by animal rights activists had uncovered hundreds of dead and dying chickens left unattended and without food and water in crates in freezing and deplorable conditions at the Queens location a few months earlier. Islip was wise to keep this blood soaked business out of the suburbs, but why should Long Islanders be spared disease-ridden slaughterhouses while urbanites are forced to suffer the putrid stench of blood and feces in city streets?

John Di Leonardo