Readers sound off on a long-term unhoused presence, city jails oversight and parade protesters

What to bash astir a idiosyncratic camped connected the street?

Manhattan: I americium penning to explicit my interest astir a longstanding contented successful our vicinity that has remained unresolved for years. A loiterer has been stationed intermittently connected Fifth Ave. and 14th St., surrounded by galore bags of bottles, cans, idiosyncratic belongings and garbage. This concern not lone affects the aesthetic entreaty of our assemblage but besides raises concerns astir nationalist wellness and safety.

While I sympathize with anyone who whitethorn beryllium experiencing hardships and surviving connected the thoroughfare (photo), the accumulation of discarded has led to an summation successful pests, unpleasant odors and adjacent obstructed sidewalks. I, on with different residents and section businesses, person voiced frustrations by calling 311 and alerting constabulary and section officials, but contempt these complaints, the occupation persists.

I judge the solution requires a compassionate yet steadfast approach. Authorities and assemblage organizations should coordinate to supply enactment for the individual, ensuring entree to resources similar structure and intelligence wellness services portion addressing the biology and information concerns. At the aforesaid time, enforcement of metropolis ordinances regarding loitering and discarded absorption indispensable beryllium a priority.

Our vicinity deserves to beryllium a cleanable and welcoming abstraction for all. Perhaps reporting by your paper volition impulse metropolis officials and assemblage leaders to instrumentality contiguous enactment to resoluteness this contented for the payment of everyone progressive and volition beryllium much impactful than the voices of those straight affected. Marjorie Sussman

Not neighborly

Brooklyn: The Daily News Editorial Board bemoans the roadway eating hiatus arsenic “a repurposing of curbside abstraction from car retention into places for radical to sit, eat, and bask themselves” and “a existent measurement guardant for neighborhoods” (“Eat your bosom out, outside,” editorial, Nov. 29). What does the Daily News disregard completely? The New Yorkers who really unrecorded successful the neighborhoods with the nonstop late-night sound of roadway dining! We’re the residents who unrecorded here, who invited a respite from the edifice owners who marque wealth and from the noisy, raucous diners who enactment hearty connected our streets and don’t springiness a damn that they’re screaming 50 feet distant from our kids’ chamber windows astatine 11 p.m. God bless this eminently tenable regularisation for temporarily restoring our prime of life. Vicky Vossen

Lethal rejection

Manhattan: To Voicer Patrice Perticone: New York State should not articulation successful the sidesplitting by bringing backmost the decease penalty. It is barbarism, plain and simple. America has made truthful overmuch advancement arsenic a civilized society, let’s not spell back. Better to spell aft cowardly elected officials liable for our messed up tribunal system. Neil Pollicino

Uncaring culture

Middle Island, L.I.: After speechmaking “Fed takeover of jails seen likely” (Nov. 28), my question is what would the feds bash differently? How are the jails presently dealing with assaults connected different radical successful custody and connected staff? What is their staffing concern like? Honestly, I americium definite they are facing the aforesaid issues arsenic Rikers Island. Where does the metropolis basal with the gathering of borough-based facilities? Ultimately, determination is nary casual fix, and to get to the basal of the issue, you person to commencement with a cleanable slate and managers who privation to spot existent alteration — with the objection of Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Liddie and First Deputy Commissioner Francis Torres. These radical are conscionable present for a paycheck and person nary existent consciousness of however to get thing nether control, but the receivership won’t beryllium effectual similar these radical deliberation it volition be. Alex Turner

Unforgivable

Stratford, Conn.: Did I miss thing here? On the time professors discussed fiscal responsibility, what, were you radical sleeping disconnected a kegger? Listen up, deadbeats: You instrumentality retired a loan, you get wealth that you committedness to wage back. Take your faces retired of your iPhones and repetition that a fewer times. What happens erstwhile each these knuckleheads instrumentality retired car loans and mortgages? Will they inquire the authorities to please, delight forgive these loans? “Wahhh, I can’t wage them back! Call the wambulance!” Wow, what a procreation poised to instrumentality implicit everything erstwhile the Baby Boomers permission this place. Good luck. Peter Sulzicki

Wait and see

Bronx: God bless President Biden arsenic helium steps down. He is inactive reasoning astir Americans. While Donald Trump prepares for a reign of revenge, a unit of incompetent furniture leaders and tariffs that volition bring connected ostentation similar we person ne'er seen, Biden is seeking to see the life-saving cause Ozempic to beryllium covered nether Medicare and Medicaid. This cause would outgo $1,000 a period for the uninsured. Forty-three percent of Americans endure from obesity, and this cause volition prevention millions of lives. I commune to God that Biden succeeds arsenic helium did with insulin prices, which helped millions of Americans. America has seen a president of each people, and present you person chosen Trump, a president for lone himself. I americium 86 and good off. He can’t wounded me, but millions volition soon consciousness the pain. Gilbert M. Lane

Free bird

Staten Island: The biggest freakin’ turkey of them each got pardoned this year. Victor R. Stanwick

Still sore

San Francisco: We unrecorded successful a democracy. And successful a democracy, we vote, we number the votes and past we state a winner. Maybe determination are a fewer lawsuits and discrepancies, but by Dec. 17, erstwhile the electors conscionable and vote, it is over. But this was not the lawsuit successful 2020. One broadside insisted that Democrats had cheated, someway rigged the predetermination and committed wide elector fraud, and to this day, inactive clasp that this is existent without immoderate legitimate, legal, stands-up-in-court evidence. So, conscionable deliberation astir this for a minute. No one, adjacent 4 years later, has produced immoderate ineligible impervious of this alleged theft. So, if Democrats were palmy successful stealing the 2020 predetermination arsenic accused, wherefore not bash it again successful 2024? Because it ne'er happened successful the archetypal place. The Big Lie is, and ever has been, precisely that — a large lie. Jimmy Layton

National mythology

Manhattan: A caller writer extolled “America’s past of tolerance and acceptance” (op-ed, Nov. 28). He said we should convey immoderate mythical entity (God) for immoderate blessings we have. I demur — vehemently. George Washington is quoted arsenic giving “bigotry nary sanction.” He was a racist and a enslaved owner. Nine of the adjacent 11 presidents owned slaves. My state is filled with bigots and fascists and they are my enemies. This state is not, and ne'er was, a democracy. Only fools and liars assertion otherwise. Millions of degenerates who voted for Trump volition larn that arsenic you sow, truthful shall you reap. They’ll statesman to wage astatine the supermarket and extremity with a dictatorship. May past person mercy connected their souls. Daniel Jean Lipsman

Health-centered

Manhattan: I was bummed erstwhile the unrivaled Gracias Home Store connected Broadway and W. 67th St. closed shop. The gathering proprietors past took the adjacent mates of years to gut and redo the space. Near the extremity of the reconstruction, I asked 1 of the hardhats what was planned to beryllium successful there. “Some New York University wellness center,” helium answered. I thought the engaged gent was placating a funny passerby. Recently, gangly signs went up covering the wide windows that read: “NYU Langone Health. OPENING SOON.” How large is that? The wellness center, 1 hopes, volition surely beryllium a invited summation to the Upper West Side, with their broad attack to healing successful these perilous times that mightiness payment a elder — and everyone other successful the neighborhood. James A. Fragale

Pissed astatine protest

Delray Beach, Fla.: So, the lowlife anti-Israel protesters who disrupted the Thanksgiving Day Parade should each beryllium charged with a felony truthful erstwhile they use for a occupation oregon are not allowed to ballot anymore, possibly that would alteration their tune. As we each know, this mockery of the laws is thing caller successful New York State. The gutless politicians who garbage to alteration the laws bash not attraction astir the hard-working citizens successful New York. One day, thing atrocious volition hap with these protests, and fto maine inquire you: Who are you going to call? Ghostbusters!? Manny Agostini