Readers hold forth on harm attorneys, empty residences and Gov. Hochul

Hazleton, Pa.: The commentary “About all these Camp Lejeune adverts” (op-ed, Oct. 24) took the cake.

Visitor author Victor E. Schwartz is from a legislation agency known as Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP — LOL. If this former legislation professor and dean was ever in any enlisted department of the army, he would no less than know what life may very well be like behind these hallways. I’m a Camp Lejeune survivor. Did I name an ambulance chaser? No. Have I been believed to undergo from a number of the many cancers on the listing? Sure, however don’t you are concerned about who will get what, Mr. Schwartz.

Possibly for those who walked in our Camp Lejeune sneakers within the Vietnam period you will have skilled what life offers or doesn’t deal a few of us. Sure, these attorneys have gone overboard, however what concerning the precise victims? Do you share a bit of authorized recommendation besides in your tackle the money move? Possibly you possibly can help a household who misplaced their liked one to a situation as horrible as this poisonous water downside.

I sincerely hope that every particular person affected by this tragedy will get what they deserve. If the author of this commentary had a bit of extra time on his arms, possibly he might get his legislation agency to assist those that really want it. Gary Yacubeck

Brooklyn: How is the ACLU not being investigated for graft galore, as revealed within the Johnny Depp-Amber Heard trial? Do our attorneys normal and district attorneys ever do their one job? The ACLU not often protects our rights. They’re all out waterskiing at their summer time properties as a result of they pay themselves hundreds of thousands of {dollars} for 2 hours of labor every week! Richard Stone

Bronx: Concerning the image of the unicyclist driving on the street in Manhattan (“A unicycle rider takes the excessive street in East Village,” Oct. 22), not solely is he not within the bike lane, there’s a motorcycle lane proper subsequent to him. Richie Nagan

Manhattan: It’s nice that the Each day Information is addressing the intense downside of warehoused rent-stabilized residences (”Unlock these models,” editorial, Oct. 21), however the 2019 hire legislation’s caps on landlord income will not be the trigger. It has been reported that many of the warehoused residences don’t want a intestine renovation to be liveable. The prices needn’t be nice. Evidently, the owner group CHIP isn’t happy with the typical $6,400 annual earnings over prices for every rent-stabilized condo (elevated every of the prior 13 years) cited by the Hire Tips Board in 2019. These models might have been saved liveable all alongside. Warehousing deprives New Yorkers of present inexpensive housing, skews the rental market, might make the federal government spend greater than is important for constructing and buying various areas and endangers neighbors the place the vacant models will not be maintained. Tenant protections will not be the difficulty. Landlord greed could also be. Sue Susman

Staten Island: In response to the Each day Information and Manhattan borough president’s views relating to deliveries in NYC (”A package deal deal,” editorial, Oct. 24): Please don’t assume that each one supply drivers belong to giant firms with deep pockets. There are many small enterprise house owners who distribute merchandise by a route system that’s independently operated. They’re answerable for all of the meals deliveries to grocery shops. These are the identical drivers who continued to ship their merchandise throughout the peak of the pandemic, when getting meals on the cabinets was vital, making them important staff. These drivers obtain loads of tickets however they don’t have the luxurious of a reduced price. I might ask that you simply not overlook concerning the little man when you find yourself making an attempt to fight this situation. Gina Ottrando

Bloomington, Ind.: Are we basically at conflict with Russia? If that’s the case, it higher cease now! If it turns into firmly established that the U.S. was concerned within the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, it’s sport on for World Struggle III. This terrorist act would clearly be understood as an act of conflict by Russia. How on Earth did we attain some extent the place waging a proxy conflict with Russia over Ukraine could be price risking the very existence of humankind? We at the moment are within the midst of a state of affairs the place one thing might simply go incorrect and set the world on fireplace. That is insane! Scott Thompson

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Ridgewood: As we face the tenth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, which killed 43 New Yorkers, broken a whole bunch of hundreds of properties and left survivors with extreme well being issues, let’s not overlook the basis reason for the devastation. Rising seas and ever extra highly effective storms are attributable to burning oil and fuel. We should re-elect Gov. Hochul, who’s upholding our local weather legislation mandates to scale back the soiled emissions which have pushed us to catastrophe. The Local weather Motion Council is now deciding on a plan to meet the legislation. Fuel firm illustration on the council is utilizing its company affect to increase its income at our expense by making an attempt to gradual local weather motion. Lee Zeldin is pro-gas, pro-fracking and anti-climate motion. We’d undergo underneath his promised lack of local weather management. Chandra Bocci

Brooklyn: Gov. Hochul is now taking motion in opposition to crime (“Safer underground,” editorial, Oct. 25). Why, as a result of she is falling behind within the polls? Completely. Mayor Adams said he’ll maintain crime in NYC. He hasn’t accomplished a factor. It was clearly only a deceive get elected. Sadly, he’s simply one other de Blasio! Subway crime daily, individuals getting stabbed, slashings, individuals pushed onto the tracks and avenue crime uncontrolled: Possibly NYC must go pink. Maureen Deman

Manhattan: Because the Sixties, I’ve been a Democrat. Nonetheless, woke Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg has turned me right into a voter who can now solely assist tough-on-crime candidates, and I don’t see any in as we speak’s Democratic Social gathering. Patricia Clark

Hempstead, L.I.: It was so disappointing to see the massive headline on the entrance web page of the Each day Information: “Hochul’s large slide” (Oct. 24). Actually? Why would you print a heading like that proper earlier than the elections? It’s the media tilting the elections unfairly and, so far as I’m involved, giving free press to Lee Zeldin’s marketing campaign. Does Zeldin have a greater plan for New Yorkers? If that’s the case, I haven’t heard it. He’s a giant proponent of the Orange Man and he shall be enjoying by that man’s playbook. Our rights shall be gone, together with abortion rights, and the police shall be again on the market with stop-and-frisk unfairly concentrating on minorities. In fact we would like a secure New York however Zeldin isn’t the best way. Get up, New York! Daybreak Diaz

Forest Hills: On Jan. 6, 2021, Mike Pence had a lot to achieve by serving to Donald Trump steal the election. He would have saved his job and he would have been much less prone to be hanged. However, to his credit score, he remembered having sworn to uphold the Structure and positioned responsibility to his nation above loyalty to 1 explicit demented particular person. Trump bootlicker Lee Zeldin, nonetheless, had no downside violating his oath by refusing to acknowledge the easy actuality that greater than 270 electors had voted for President Biden. Anybody selecting to reside in some sort of an alternate actuality, as Zeldin did, is simply too harmful to ever be governor of the good state of New York. Alan Hirschberg

Backyard Metropolis, L.I.: So evidently Trump’s 757 is again within the air. That refurb, together with a Rolls Royce engine and a brand new paint job, will need to have price hundreds of thousands. But the person that claims to be price $4 billion (that’s 4,000 occasions 1,000,000!) continues touring the nation elevating cash for himself. I hope his followers are getting frequent flier miles! Paul Falabella

Kearny, N.J.: So Trump acolyte Steve Bannon was simply sentenced to 4 months in jail for contempt of Congress for not complying with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. He’s interesting, but when he does go to jail, there’s one advantage of this — a bathe daily! Kevin Dale