A view of a bridge named Cuomo

Williamsport, Pa.: Since a steel company in my city was the manufacturer of the large beams that went to construct the project to replace the Tappan Zee bridge, they recently took out a full-page ad in our local newspaper congratulating themselves on the job. I recall the days of having to go to work in the morning and trying to beat the tractor-trailers on the road to avoid getting stuck behind them when they were pulling out of the factory. I was told the beams had to be shipped to Albany and floated down the Hudson River.

The renaming of the bridge from the Tappan Zee to Mario Cuomo I consider disturbing. Why would New Yorkers go to the trouble of renaming a bridge with a fine-sounding name, to honor a politician who gave New Yorkers probably the highest tax rates in their history? Do they love paying homage to a man who wanted to take their money, as much of it as he could get his hands on, so he could decide how it would be spent? Or are they trying to suck up to the current governor, the son of the governor who loved tax money to spend?

To me, it’s the Tappan Zee Bridge, always has been the Tappan Zee Bridge, always wil be the Tappan Zee Bridge. Hugh E. McGee

Stop, thief!

Clifton, N.J.: Eight rallies for the President’s supposed reelection have so far been paid for by the U.S. taxpayers. In the future, any more rallies should be paid for by the re-election fund. And that includes use of Air Force One. No more taxpayer dollars. Why should taxpayers stand for this kind of misuse of taxes by a person who promised to save them money? The only one saving money appears to be the supposed candidate. Alice J. Dymek

Where’s our money?

Staten Island: To all who falsely pretend they care for those who elected them into office: Let’s reveal your self-centered concern. Your free medical coverage was created to protect you, your family and members of your party, public be damned. You and your party members’ retirement is secured. Now let’s take the retirees who in three years have not seen a penny increase in their Social Security retirement checks, which reflect an amount deducted from paychecks weekly to cover their tomorrows. It’s a terrible burden cast upon them, by elected officials with “I got mine” greed. Where is the equity as written in the Constitution?

Joseph Verdi

Third time’s the charm

Manhattan: The “hat trick” was named after a hockey team scored three points one after another.

Ruth A. Unterberg

Drink up

Flushing: To Voicer George Borton, who references a study finding that four cups of coffee per day can lower risk of death: The stupidity of it all annoys me to the point of madness. I was taught this in school: Coffee attacks the central nervous system. Tea destroys the mucous membrane lining the stomach. Both are basically drugs, and cocoa too. Take it the way you want. You can live without all three and live well. But the beverage industry is so massive that, like with tobacco, their advertising distracts. You want to live longer? Don’t drink these drugs. I myself drink all kinds of tea and coffee and cocoa, and am not on medication. Longevity comes from the genes your mother and father gave you and the character of how you live.

Charles Lercara

Spotlight on ugly scene

Queens Village: The article in the Daily News on Dan Wenger, who was in an upstate home for the severely disabled, makes me thankful to the Associated Press for their Willowbrook-esque involvement in getting the story to the public. (“Maggots in the throat of a patient,” Aug. 11). This is why we have to have a free press, whistleblowers and just tenacious people. We need transparency when it comes to humans or animals who can’t speak for themselves. This man was neglected and didn’t even have a family member visiting him on a timely basis. For if he did, the abuse wouldn’t have lasted long. Joan Silaco

Setting Wright right

Brooklyn: I’m a strong fan of David Wright and have been waiting all season for him to return. I am 91 and can’t wait much longer. He is just prone to injury. So here’s my advice: Take the $40 million owed to you by this poorly managed Mets ownership, open a small emergency room, get married, have kids and go to work with Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez for a couple of million more. Then, David Wright won’t be David wrong, when David left. You’ll see that I was right, although not named David. Bill Glassman

Que Linda

Brooklyn: Linda Stasi has the most etymologically idoneous name in the history of human civilization. Linda, in Spanish, means “beautiful” or “lovely.” Stasis is a stable state of homeostasis — a perfect balance of life elements or functions. Would it be inappropriate to aver that Linda is an ideal combination of physical beauty and intellectual perspicacity? She has the keenest sense of humor of any extant female. Joseph McCoppin

Spot on

New Rochelle, N.Y.: Black, white, red, blue, spotted or polkadotted, the differences between peoples should never be negated; they should always be celebrated.

Maggie Radtke

Missing from this picture

Bronx: I admire the honesty of Bramhall’s Labor Day cartoon showing a robot duplicating the work of the visual draftsman. But the robot simply commemorates the holiday, instead of mocking the President. Perhaps that would require human conspiracy and hypocrisy. Walter Powers Brooklyn: Re “Drag guy has fans” (June 3): Let me see if I get this straight: A male PTA president dresses in drag and does an erotic dance in front of a group of elementary school children, and absolutely nothing is done to him. Yet a woman at another school says “damn” and she gets treated like the anti-Christ. What a sick, demented, upside-down world we’re living in. Scott M. Smilo

Game off

Brooklyn: Is out-of-work NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick being black-balled? On the contrary, since all of the NFL owners are white, I venture to say he’s being white-balled.

Donald L. Cunningham

No justice, no peace

Bayonne: I have a solution to the war in Afghanistan: We should send all these anti-American protesters who are trying to destroy American history, whether good, bad or indifferent, over to Afghanistan and bring back our troops. Maybe then they will realize how great America is.

Bob Mannins

Cruise out of crisis

East Patchogue, L.I.: I have a suggestion: How about having the people in Texas who have nothing after Hurricane Harvey stay in cruise ships? The ships are huge and can hold hundreds of people. They can’t go to their jobs, or banks, or Post Office anyway so why not? To only have the wet clothes on their backs must be a nightmare. God help them all.

Catherine Lo Curto

Monumental idiocy

Brooklyn: Mayor Warren Wilhelm and his stooge Melissa Mark-Viverito seem determined to remove every statue in New York. Why stop there? They could run down to Washington and Wilhelm could rip Abraham Lincoln off his chair, and MarkViverito looks like she could do a flying tackle and get Thomas Jefferson off his platform. Then they could run over to the Washington Monument and knock that down. Maybe they could go to Arlington National Cemetery and see if there are any statues there they could remove. This whole thing is getting to be rather much. Rowena Lachant

Bard at the bar

Brooklyn: Thank you, Daily News. We had a great time watching “Drunken Shakespeare.” I enter the Daily News contest every time, and I knew that one day I would win something. Even though others discouraged me, I had the last laugh. As long as there’s a contest for free tickets I’m in. Rose Charley

Worst ever

HOWARD SIMMONS Colonia, N.J.: Why does the Daily News keep printing “Between the Lines”? It’s the worst comic strip I have ever read. Not funny at all. Do you owe the cartoonist something so you keep printing the strips? Estelle Saltzman

Croons and tunes

Bayonne: To Voicer Jenny Kelly: Turn on WNYC-FM radio — Jonathan Schwartz is on Saturday 8 to 11 a.m. and Sunday 1 to 4 p.m. He plays Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee.

Irene Hersberg