Letters to the Editor
We’re losing the spirit
To The Editor:
Re “The Cornelia St. Cafe: This one really hurts”
(talking point, by Michele Herman, Dec. 20):
This is another reason for commercial rent control.
We had it until 1963. If we don’t get some form
of commercial rent control, Manhattan could soon
be run totally by absentee landlord billionaires, who
are the only ones who can afford city real estate, and
by politicians like de Blasio and Cuomo, who only
seem to want to appease the Real Estate Board of
New York, with its fi nancial largesse that its members
are eager to throw around to these politicians.
Leaving the Film Forum at night and walking
past the Cornelia Street Cafe made me feel like a
New Yorker in the Sixties! It made me believe that
esprit was still alive in the Apple.
Too many city streets have really started to reek of
suburbia. My wife and I have lost about fi ve valued
restaurants over the past three years! It’s time for
all of us to join some preservation groups so we can
fi ght to preserve the soul of New York!
Terry Brennan
Someone...help!
To The Editor:
Re “The Cornelia St. Cafe: This one really hurts”
(talking point, by Michele Herman, Dec. 20):
Aren’t there any philanthropically inclined New
Yorkers who could give a hand? As for the crooked
landlords, can they not be publicly embarrassed?
David Russell
There’s always...Brooklyn?
To The Editor:
Re “The Cornelia St. Cafe: This one really hurts”
(talking point, by Michele Herman, Dec. 20):
This is a terrible, terrible loss. Doma Na Rohu on
Morton St. closed and so much else has, too. I’m a
second-generation Villager and this is becoming so
deeply painful. I go to the Cornelia St. Cafe’s downstairs
all the time. Where shall we go now? The answer
increasingly is Brooklyn. So, so sad.
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To The Editor:
Re “Musicians know: 11th St. Bar is place to play”
(arts article, by Puma Perl, Dec. 20):
Say what you will about early-morning drunken
Liverpool FC revelers. But this bar and its revelers/
patrons have given more to the homeless and needy
in the East Village through their food drives then
anyplace else. God bless the 11th Street Bar.
Eric Faber
Small shops — our heart
To The Editor:
Re “At last, small business bill has a champion”
(talking point, by Sharon Woolums, Dec. 20):
Small businesses are the heart and character of
Greenwich Village. I hope The Villager continues to
cover this story and that Villagers continue to support
A historic moment
To The Editor:
Re “At last, small business bill has a champion”
(talking point, by Sharon Woolums, Dec. 20):
Sharon Woolums earns our respect again for
bringing vital news the big media almost always ignore.
This time she informs us of a signifi cant moment
concerning the Small Business Jobs Survival
Act, now being debated in the City Council, that
might stop so many of our favorite shops being shuttered
and abandoned. If Councilmember Ydanis
Rodriguez stands fi rm here, who knows — maybe
we just might get a bill! There are fl eeting moments
when a politician can be become something much,
much more than that — how about a true leader?
Bennett Kremen
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