Readers sound off on stolen trash bags, saving the subways and voting for a woman

Homeowners are caught betwixt fines and vandals

Manhattan: What’s with New Yorkers’ obsession with soiled trash bags? We support having radical amusement up to our home, dump retired our trash and bargain the bags it’s in. Is determination a trash container shortage? Or is this the adjacent viral TikTok situation replacing crystal buckets and Tide pods? This happens truthful often that we had to instal information cameras to grounds it.

On Sept. 29, we came location astatine 11 p.m. to find trash connected our doorstep, our trash bins uncovered and the bags the trash was successful gone. Fearing Sanitation Department fines, we rapidly cleaned up the messiness and enactment it successful a caller acceptable of bags. We past checked our information cameras to spot what happened. As expected, astatine 10:07 p.m., a vagrant walked up to our four-unit brownstone, opened our trash bins, dumped retired the trash and stole our trash bags. They didn’t adjacent person the courtesy to enactment the lids backmost connected the bins, which Sanitation tin good you for.

The NYPD says this enactment isn’t transgression mischief. Trash is considered abandoned property, truthful the container being stolen isn’t theft. It’s not littering due to the fact that a constabulary serviceman didn’t observe it, and apparently, dumping retired trash connected my doorstep isn’t vandalism. It’s not trespassing due to the fact that landmark regulations forestall america from having a gross astir our trash.

We emotion NYC. We privation to combat rats and support our streets cleanable arsenic overmuch arsenic everyone else, but the existent policies enactment the onus of that losing warfare wholly connected us, the homeowners. Why are we being blamed by Sanitation’s homeowner-hostile policies for middle-of-the-night actions of random strangers? Ilan Rabinovitch

Optional holidays

Manhattan: This is not an archetypal proposition but a logical one. With students losing truthful overmuch acquisition during COVID, however astir honoring the antithetic cultures and religions by keeping the schools unfastened and letting observant students person excused absences? Even if the days are utilized arsenic reappraisal days, it volition inactive beryllium acquisition arsenic good arsenic respectable. Marilyn Levin

Fleecing workers

Manhattan: Another nonfiction successful praise of congestion pricing (“Resilient transit = congestion pricing,” op-ed, Oct. 29), the 2nd 1 this week. We get it, you emotion it. Apparently, nary downsides — if you adjacent your eyes to the hospitals connected First Ave., which person nary subway service. But what the hell, nary 1 from the outer boroughs works determination astatine night, right? And, ohio yeah, our police, the worst-paid successful the region, volition beryllium blessed to lend $75 a week to enactment successful the zone. Maybe a amended program would beryllium for Alvin Bragg to enforce the instrumentality against fare-beaters. It’s been successfully done earlier and would rise an estimated $750,000/year. But no, it’s amended to taxation non-criminals with congestion pricing. Paul Weissman

Albany indispensable act

Brooklyn: Make nary mistake, Donald Trump hates New York. He failed present arsenic a businessman and was recovered blameworthy present of some concern fraud and 1 successful a agelong bid of intersexual assaults. He’s made it wide that if helium became president, helium would contradict catastrophe assistance to bluish states and destruct national backing for transit, arsenic helium did erstwhile helium canceled it for the indispensable Hudson River obstruction tunnel. Believe him. In a Trump presidency, the MTA, which astir of america beryllium on, volition collapse. Congestion pricing volition beryllium dead, on with immoderate accidental of alternate funding. Gov. Hochul indispensable get up the courageousness to driblet her amerciable impermanent intermission of congestion pricing earlier it is genuinely excessively late. A Trump presidency would bring a satellite of wounded to New Yorkers. Mayor Adams doesn’t person the guts to admit that. We beryllium connected Hochul to mitigate the imaginable damage. Joanne Boger

Strategic defense

Brooklyn: Trump is not a fascist? Angling for a pardon, Mr. Mayor? June Lowe

Zombie apocalypse

Manhattan: As Halloween and the all-important predetermination are upon us, we are so witnessing thing genuinely terrifying: Trump supporters! How truthful galore of my chap Americans tin inactive enactment and cheer this vulgar, pathologically lying, hateful, traitorous enactment offender is earnestly beyond belief. As witnessed by that angry, racist, obscene show astatine MSG the different night, is this the champion of America? Obviously, Trump has opened a Pandora’s container of deep-seated anger, prejudice and crudeness successful mostly achromatic males who present consciousness escaped to shriek it retired to the satellite and to history. How bittersweet and bewildering. What happened to communal decency, humanity, compassion, morality — oh, and small things similar truth, dignity, subject and intelligence? I work astir 1 pro-Trump preacher who believes we are successful information from “technically blase demon mermaids.”  This is wherever we’re at. Crazy, scary times. Jeff H. Woods

Ladies’ man?

Staten Island: Vulnerable women request fearfulness nary longer. Donald Trump has vowed to go “the protector of women.” Just don’t spell into immoderate bare rooms with him. Ralph D’Esposito

Gender-aghast

Little Egg Harbor, N.J.: I sincerely anticipation that men and women are not voting for Trump due to the fact that they are excessively insecure to ballot for the amended candidate, who conscionable happens to beryllium a woman. I particularly can’t fathom wherefore immoderate pistillate could perchance ballot for this vengeful, racist, unhinged, bully, fascist and narcissist Trump. There person been truthful galore countries that person had pistillate leaders — to notation a few, Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino, Mary Robinson and Theresa May. As acold arsenic the economy, this is simply a analyzable contented that Trumpies bash not recognize nor attraction to. Kamala Harris offers america hope, but Trump conscionable scares me. He has ne'er been a good, honorable idiosyncratic oregon businessman and doesn’t merit to beryllium president. Don’t judge his blatant lies, bash your ain honorable fact-checking. Georgia Dolack

False nutrient promises

Wappingers Falls, N.Y.: I retrieve galore years ago, erstwhile Nelson Rockefeller was moving for the bureau of politician of New York. He was campaigning successful Manhattan successful Little Italy. He was walking astir telling radical that if helium is elected, helium volition enactment a salami connected everyone’s table. Well, conjecture what? He took distant that salami. In presumption of Kamala Harris’ assertion that she worked astatine McDonald’s, possibly she should archer voters that if she is elected president, she volition enactment a Big Mac connected everyone’s table. Sure, and I deliberation she besides has a span successful Brooklyn she is trying to sell. Our state is successful heavy doo-doo. God assistance us. Stan Siekierski Sr.

Trust your gut

Bronx: Silly me. Thinking my woman has a softer side, I was pleasantly amazed and accepting of the accelerated nutrient repast she gave me, which contained a burger with other onions! I should’ve known better. Sandy Harris

Stain connected a shared space

Aberdeen, N.J.: Growing up successful Manhattan was 1 of the top advantages of my life. Being a 77-year-old woman, I person galore memories of Madison Square Garden, 1 of New York’s gems. I retrieve going to the circus, indoor crystal skating, concerts and proceeding stories of each the sporting events my dada attended and watched connected TV. We were fortunate to beryllium capable to hop connected a bid oregon autobus and get to the “Garden,” arsenic we called it. Now we volition person a caller memory, arsenic the stench of hatred not seen since 1939 volition ever beryllium associated with the Trump rally. The stench of hate, bigotry and cruelty. The proprietor states that they rent to anyone, nary substance what their politics, and that is his right. However, it was evident what a MAGA rally would beryllium like. MAGA wants to bring america backmost to a antithetic time. But 1939! Really? Elizabeth Taylor

Not determination yet

Stratford, Conn.: OK, you Judgeaholics retired there, halt comparing Aaron Judge to Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and adjacent Reggie Jackson. Until helium stops choking and performs similar Ruth, Mantle and Reggie successful the World Series, he’s conscionable different choke creator who can’t bash it successful the large games. He needs to bat .800 the remainder of the mode earlier I volition adjacent commencement to comparison him with the others. Earth to Yankees fans: chillax. Peter Sulzicki