Letters to the Editor
a class of people and eventually an entire country.
Sion Misrahi
Misrahi is president, Misrahi Realty Corp.
Animals ‘humanize’ Warhol
To The Editor:
Re “Ukrainian Museum show brings out the animal
in Andy” (arts article, Nov. 29):
Delightful! Had not seen these wonderful Warhols!
The animals are, for me, very different from his more
familiar work and much more human, oddly enough,
than his more-well-known work.
Gloria Sukenick
Core-and-shell-shocked
To The Editor:
Re “The core and shell of a pledge on Bleecker St.
school” (talking point, by Terri Cude, Nov. 15):
What a travesty! As a member of the Community
Education Council for District 2, I am deeply disturbed
It’s yet another developer (and let’s be clear, N.Y.U.
is a developer) promising scraps to the public in exchange
for huge allowances, only to turn its back the
minute it gets what it wants.
We have a city with crumbling infrastructure, including
schools that are not suited for the last century,
let alone this one. And yet we let the opportunity for
a public-private partnership with N.Y.U. slip away?
On whose watch? Shame on you, N.Y.U.! Shame on
you, School Construction Authority! Shame on you,
Councilmember Chin!
There should be as much pressure as possible put
on N.Y.U. to make good on these promises to the community.
There should never be a major land deal that
goes through ULURP without serious consideration
for a new school. (Essex Crossing, anyone?). When
schools are built with private money it frees up funds
to build (or refurbish) schools elsewhere.
Emily Hellstrom
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Washington Weed Park
To The Editor:
Re “Drug dealers operating freely in Wash. Sq.
Park” (talking point, by Bernard McElhone, Nov.
29):W
hoa, you mean college kids can go to a local park
to fi nd weed? That has been happening in Washington
Square Park for the last 65 years! It’s a park tradition,
always has been, always will be.
Dodge Landesman
Victim of landlord greed
To The Editor:
The Mobile Spa on Bleecker St., across from Murray’s
Cheese, is yet another welcome, valued and trustworthy
neighborhood support service that is about to close its
doors because their lease is up for renewal again, and
this latest rent increase is more than they can absorb.
They have managed in the face of a series of earlier increases,
but accepting this newest hike is not feasible.
Today’s landlords care only about lining their pockets,
not the quality of the neighborhoods and life affected
by their properties. Our government remains
too mired in petty antagonisms to pass legislation to
protect small businesses and their communities.
Sheila Haas
Landlords are the victims
To The Editor:
Re “Needed: A new Lower East Side Historic District”
(talking point, by Richard Moses and Erik Bottcher,
Nov. 22):
Why don’t you just confi scate these properties and
pay a fair market value instead of slowly strangling
their owners? Rent control, rent stabilization, every
city agency ticketing owners for every excuse possible,
so that we are overloaded with paperwork — and
now talk of store rent control.
One-third of a building’s income goes to real estate
taxes, then there is repair and maintenance, water and
sewer. A big fat mortgage used to renovate the building,
fi x the roof, pay for pointing of exterior walls, hallway
renovations, and now it’s $25,000 to change a window
after making these small nondescript buildings landmarks.
Then, after there are a few piasters left over as
profi t, it is taxed at 39 percent at federal and 13 percent
for state and city. This is how you slowly strangle
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