Infrastructural racism

Peekskill, N.Y.: Typical of his ilk, Andrew Yang supporter Ritchie Torres is confused. My Uncle Bill and Aunt Millie Offer — he Jewish, she Scotch-Irish — lived off the Grand Concourse from before World War II. As a kid during the 1960s and 70s, I visited the “Park Avenue of middle-class Bronx” many times. He was the well-todo owner of a copier company, one of the first before Xerox. The grandeur of their neighborhood was splendid — you could feel 1930s New York. In 1977, after thieves stole their second Cadillac from the private garage, Millie and Bill sold their apartment and moved to San Antonio. Knuckleheads like Torres and Yang sell you that the Cross Bronx Expressway, built in 1955, is “racist.” What’s that make the 287, a.k.a. the Cross Westchester Expressway, anti-WASP?

Joe Schatzle