Guest Editorial
We pledged ‘Never Forget’
BY CAROLYN B. MALONEY
Last week, we lost an incredible
New Yorker — an American hero
— N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Alvarez.
I vowed that we would fi nish his
last mission — to take care of the 9/11
community.
On Friday, the House scheduled to
fi nally vote to fully fund and make permanent
the Sept. 11th Victim Compensation
Fund to take care of every fi rst
responder, construction worker, volunteer
and survivor who is now sick, plus
the spouses left alone and the children
left without parents because of illnesses
caused by 9/11.
In honor of N.Y.P.D. Detective James
Zadroga — the fi rst person to die from
9/11 illness — F.D.N.Y. Firefi ghter Ray
Pfeifer and N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Alvarez,
who dedicated their last breaths
to fi ghting for the 9/11 community, and
for all the heroes who are still dealing
with the effects of 9/11 each and every
day, we will get this done and send this
bill to the president’s desk.
We have a double moral obligation
to these heroic men and women. Not
only were they there for us in one of
our nation’s darkest hours. But our government
told all those who worked on
the pile and lived, worked and went to
school near Ground Zero that the air
was safe to breathe, and the water was
safe to drink when it wasn’t. They are
sick because of us.
Last month, Congress heard from
Anesta St. Rose Henry as she testifi ed
in front of the House Committee on the
Judiciary, sitting in front of two of her
children that she is now raising alone.
She lost her husband Candidus Henry
less than a month earlier to glioblastoma,
a rare brain cancer, connected to
his time working on the pile at Ground
Zero. She told us and the American
people about Candidus, and the hole he
left behind — a hole only made larger
by the fact that, because her husband
died this May instead of two years ago,
she and her family will not receive a
full award from the Sept. 11th Victim
Compensation Fund because the fund
is currently facing a budget shortfall.
But we will fi x that by passing this
bill. Not only does the Never Forget the
Heroes Act fully fund and make permanent
the V.C.F. for the future, but it also
directs the special master to revisit all
the reduced awards paid out to the 9/11
community because of the shortfall.
After 9/11, we vowed to “Never Forget”
and with that, we made a commitment
to make sure every 9/11 fi rst
responder, survivor and their families
never have to go without the support
they need or deserve. It is the very least
we can do as a grateful nation.
Maloney is congressmember, 12th
District.
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Creating the LaGuardia Gardens in 1982.
An article in The Villager’s
May 20, 1982, issue reported
that many LaGuardia Place
residents were continuing to oppose a
new community garden near the corner
of Bleecker St. running down the
block toward W. Houston St., even as
gardeners were beginning to prepare
the plot for planting all types of vegetables.
The issue was not the veggies, but
the new 8-foot-high, 170-foot-long
and 42-foot-wide chain-link fence
around the garden.
Many residents felt the narrow
sidewalk strip left between the garden
and the Grand Union supermarket
would become a “muggers
alley,” and would “make it easy” for
ne’er-do-wells to hide. There was
also concern about the police having
access to the supermarket if something
went wrong there. The garden
remains there to this day, and was
able to survive a threat of development
by New York University.
SUBJECT: “The problem with Pride” (guest editorial, by Elissa Stein,
7/4/19)
SUMMARY: Village activist Elissa Stein expresses her frustration
with the Pride March, arguing it’s dominated by corporate sponsors
and product giveaways. Swelled by Stonewall 50 and WorldPride, the
March’s size tripled and it lasted 12½ hours. Writes Stein: “Someone
needs to be the grown-up in the room and cap the number of
participants and set a time limit... . Local residents and streets
should not be subjected to this level of noise pollution, barricading
and destruction.”
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