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Letters

Thursday, Dec. 18, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual, this time with more letters on the bike-car-pedestrian conflict that has consumed Brooklyn. Comments (1).

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual, this time with two letters on the bike lane war in Williamsburg. Comment.

Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008

These MTA cuts will slice and dice Brooklyn

Letters: Once again, our readers respond to our reports. Comments (1).

Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual, this time with letters on the Council’s term-limit vote, Bruce Ratner, the victory of Barack Obama and, perhaps most important, Peruvian pipe players in Borough Hall park. Comment.

Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: The mailbag is filled as usual, this time with letters on Barack Obama’s historic win, the end of term limits, the death of the Green Church in Bay Ridge, our supposed homophobic headline, a schism in the Jewish community, Ratner’s ongoing problems and dogs in Prospect Park. Comments (1).

Monday, Nov. 3, 2008

LICH docs rage at Continuum exec

Letters: The head and former head of the Long Island College Hospital medical staff respond, angrily, to our interview with the hospital’s chief “restructurer.” Comment.

Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

Yassky to Paper: I was right

Letters: After reading our editorial last week slamming his term-limit vote, Councilman David Yassky asked us to print his side of the story. OK, Councilman, it’s your turn. Comments (6).

Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008

City plan not Coney baloney: The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: Our mailbag contained a response from the commissioner of City Planning about our recent Coney Island editorial. We thank her for joining our spirited debate. Comment.

Thursday, Oct. 23, 2008

Vegetarians speak: The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: Our mailbag is full again — and features missives about our recent cover story about the decline of vegetarianism. Comment.

Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008

Our readers speak: The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: Our mailbag is full again — and features missives about term limits, the fight to fix the Gowanus Canal and how one man is certainly not shedding any tears for the just-closed Starbucks in Bay Ridge. Comment.

Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008

Everyone has a stake in the car-bike battle

Letters: Our mailbag is full again — and features two letters about the ongoing conflict between bike riders and car drivers, plus missives about term limits, Smartmom’s disgust about Sarah Palin, and the just-closed Starbucks in Bay Ridge. Comments (1).

Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008

This soldier’s story is pro-Palin

Letters: A soldier goes after Smartmom, plus other letters on Grand Army Plaza, term limits and failed congressional candidate Kevin Powell. Comment.

Thursday, Sep. 18, 2008

‘Dangerous’ vehicles are out of control in Prospect Park

Letters: Our mailbag is filled again — this week, with lots of letters about Prospect Park. Comments (1).

Thursday, Sep. 11, 2008

Editor’s neighbor not pleased with beer bust story — The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters from a Park Sloper who believes people drinking a beer on their stoop should be ticketed; two letters from fans of our illegal barbecue coverage; support for trees damaged by the “New York City Waterfalls” project; and the mosquito problem this summer. Comment.

Thursday, Sep. 4, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters from the mother of that artist who got arrested by the Chinese, the Asian Tiger Mosquito invasion, a crackhouse in Williamsburg and, of course, how great The Brooklyn Paper is. Comment.

Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — and this time even includes a letter from the city complaining about our editorial on the Department of Sanitation’s lame new “lawn litter” regulations. Read the letter! You won’t believe that the city had the noive to complain! Comments (1).

Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008

The Brooklyn Paper mailbag

Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters about Long Island College Hospital’s finances, a city plan to expand a Brooklyn Heights elementary school, a congressional race in Bay Ridge, legislative pay raises, and a controversial developer in Carroll Gardens. Comments (1).

Thursday, July 31, 2008

He’s got a problem with those who don’t want to ‘Flea’

Letters: As always, the mailbag is filled — this time with letters about the suddenly controversial flea market in Fort Greene, The Paper’s coverage of the Red Hook vendors, Ed Shakespeare’s great Cyclones columns and the thef of our editor’s bike. Comment.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Of course, Marty isn’t running — why should he?

Letters: Our mailbag is filled once again with letters about Borough President Markowitz’s run for mayor, the ticket blitz in Park Slope, a woman who got a stern warning for taking pictures of her daughter in a Brooklyn park, the greatness of Montreal and a federal plan to permanently close off Washington Street in Downtown. Comment.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Someone needs to do the due diligence at Atlantic Yards

Letters: Our mailbag is crammed full, as always. This time, letters on the lack of due diligence at Atlantic Yards, the plan to tear down historic, though dilapidated, homes at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, airplane noise over Park Slope, a woman who got upbraided by a parks worker for taking pictures of her own daughter, and what a reader’s happy visit to Montreal could teach us egotistical New Yorkers. Comments (1).

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Angry about Supreme Court ‘Yards’ dismissal? Back these bills

Letters: You recently reported on the saving of Victory Memorial Hospital (“Victory wins!” July 1). While it is good news that SUNY Downstate will continue to provide some health care services for our community as a walk-in clinic or urgent care center, we still will not have an emergency room or access to the full range of services that once existed at this location. Comments (1).

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Men are domestic-violence victims, too

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Wal-Mart, Ikea, school rezonings, divorce and the Metropolitan Opera show in Prospect Park. Comment.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Democrats should united behind Steve Harrison

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Bay Ridge politics, Ikea, Park Slope’s alleged Communist leanings, truck traffic in Kensington, judges who park in a city park and The Brooklyn Paper’s fine podcasts! Comment.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Yards foes: Let’s set the records straight

Letters: Here are this week’s letters, with missives about Atlantic Yards (what else?!), the Green Church in Bay Ridge, Rep. Vito Fossella’s drunk-driving arrest and our recent story about the Microsoft store. Comment.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Readers: What are kids doing in bars, anyway?

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about our ongoing kids-in-bars coverage; our recent story about pet adoptions; our humorous “field test” of new biodegradable lunch trays; a Prospect Lefferts Gardens development; the death of Bertha, the sand tiger shark; and the failure of a plan to but a power plant on the Williamsburg waterfront. Comment.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

This guy faults Bruce Ratner and Atlantic Yards foes

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about Atlantic Yards, bars in residential neighborhoods, banks in our retail corridors and allegedly bad writing in The Brooklyn Paper (no way!). Comments (2).

Saturday, May 24, 2008

More fallout from recent Atlantic Yards letters

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about Atlantic Yards, closing supermarkets, Rep. Vito Fossella’s ongoing travails, ferry service and The Brooklyn Paper’s unique use of language. Comment.

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Yards foes extend hand to critic of Ratner and DDDB

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, alternate-side-of-the-street parking, the Brooklyn Bridge’s 125th birthday and, of course, more commentary on The Brooklyn Paper’s florid use of language. Comments (5).

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Want to build Brooklyn Bridge Park? Scale it back!

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Brooklyn Bridge Park, Bob Dylan’s upcoming concert, horse injuries in Prospect Park and Wal-Mart coming to New York. Comments (2).

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Once again, our Wal-Mart editorial provokes ire, praise

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Wal-Mart, the Prospect Park bridle path, and the ongoing hot-dog contest controversy. Comments (1).

Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008

Sympathy for Gersh’s ankle, congrats on Paper award

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with sympathy for our hobbled editor in chief, plus letters about immigrants, the aborted plan to put a middle school in the House of Detention, and the Navy Yard’s supermarket plan. Comments (2).

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Permits not the solution to parking problem

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008

Our Brooklyn (Iowa) coverage earns accolades

Letters: Our mailbag is filled — even during the holiday week! — with letters about our coverage of the Iowa caucuses, Atlantic Yards, Rep. Yvette Clarke’s “anti-Christmas” vote, poor bus service, rats in Brooklyn Heights, the declining quality of Peter Luger steak house, and plans to create a Fort Greene Food Co-op. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008

Builder of rejected ‘mews’ plan now seeks ‘Amity’

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with letters about a failed development plan on Amity Street; a proposed tower in DUMBO; bus routes through the Battery, Brooklyn Bridge “Park”; Patrick Stewart, the actor; and PrattStore’s new framing business. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 16, 2008

City’s pay-to-park proposal fills The Paper’s mailbag

Letters: Our mailbag is filled with letters about the city’s residential parking permit plan, subsidies being doled out to Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, and plans to demolish a historic Bay Ridge church. Comment.

Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008

School in a jail plan sparks mail — from city

Letters: Letters are pouring in about the city’s middle-school-in-a-jail idea, David Walentas’s Dock Street tower, Flatbush traffic, Old Brooklyn, illegal parking, District Attorney Hynes, and our Editor of the Year, Gersh Kuntzman. Comment.

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Voters to Rep. Clarke: Listen to us and back Barack

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Readers respond to Bruce Ratner’s Yards failure

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters on Bruce Ratner’s no-longer-mega mega-project; The Paper’s bias in favor of Styrofoam trays and against Williamsburg 311 users; film crews; and even a letter from Broken Angel creator Arthur Wood. Comment.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Ratner and the Brooklyn Museum: Perfect together

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Atlantic Yards, Khalil Gibran International Academy, congestion pricing, Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and Frank Gehry’s supposedly naughty design for “Miss Brooklyn.” Comment.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Schumer endorsement makes Squadron a loser

Letters: The mailbag is filled with letters about Sen. Charles Schumer’s endorsement of state Senate candidate Daniel Squadron, judges who park in a park, the anti-Ratner protesters at the Brooklyn Museum and Frank Gehry’s forgotten “Urban Room.” Comment.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Jed Walentas answers his critics

Letters: DUMBO’s major developer fires back. Plus letters on Gersh’s doctor and the Toll Brothers Gowanus Canal project. Comments (1).

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Readers go batty over our dog adoption story

Letters: The mailbag is filled — as always. Comment.

Saturday, Feb. 23, 2008

An artist takes a borough president to task

Letters: Letters this week on Borough President Markowitz’s plan to re-light the Parachute Jump; Rep. Ed Towns’s reputed lameness; Gersh Kuntzman’s broken ankle; new parking meters on Seventh Avenue; and the Toll Brothers’ plan for condos on the Gowanus Canal. Comment.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

City: We’ll get Coney land without eminent domain

Letters: The mailbag is filled with missives about the city’s Coney Island plan, “old” Brooklyn, generic development around town, Atlantic Yards and Rep. Vito Fossella’s flirtation with Dick Cheney. Comment.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

Paper’s bottled water story is drink for thought

Letters: The mailbag is full as usual. Comments (1).

Saturday, Feb. 9, 2008

Ankling for recovery

Letters: After a reader was seriously injured in a hit-and-run, he went to Gersh’s new ankle man — and all was right with the world. Comment.