MTA’s un-fare hikes and more: Letters to the Editor
MTA’s cash pit
The MTA studies that it’s shedding $690 million to farebeaters, so the company desires to boost the fares (“MTA on monitor to up fares by Labor Day,” Could 23).
OK, I get it: So why then do the bridge tolls must go up once more?
Additionally, the federal government continues to push for congestion pricing to subsidize the MTA. Why do motorists at all times must bear the duty of bailing out this bloated metropolis company?
What about all of this cash the town has to handle the unlawful immigrants? These funds can be greater than sufficient to cowl the MTA’s new prices.
I didn’t vote for congestion pricing. I didn’t vote for open borders.
All of you on the market who proceed to vote Democrat: Be trustworthy and take a look at what Democrats are doing to New York Metropolis and the whole United States.
Joe Kowalczyk, Riverdale
No grocery wine
As a Brooklyn store proprietor and one of many state’s 3,500 small liquor-store house owners, wine in grocery shops is a attainable doomsday state of affairs (“Let NY Supermarkets Promote Wine,” Editorial, Could 24).
The invoice by Sen. Liz Krueger is wrongly being pushed as a lifeline for large, wealthy supermarkets within the wake of COVID, however most supermarkets appear to be thriving.
New York’s small spirit retailers are largely family-owned and make use of on common 10 employees. If Cease & Store, WalMart or Amazon’s Complete Meals get to promote liquor, it will likely be a job killer for us.
I’ve the utmost assist for retailer house owners throughout different industries, however when one seeks a whole takeover of one other — backed by poorly conceived state laws — it jogs my memory of Uber changing into the nail within the coffin for numerous taxi medallion house owners.
Let’s assist small companies, not legislate them away.
Michael Correra
Brooklyn
Skinny jean ditch
Gen Z is getting credit score for placing skinny denims on the environmentally sustainable trash heap of historical past (“Gen Z has canceled skinny denims — right here’s what’s changing them,” Could 23).
Frankly, I’m shocked it was as a consequence of a eager style sense and never the problematic use of “skinny.”
However let’s get one factor straight: Apart from just a few hipsters and ballerinos, males have embraced loose-fitting clothes since time immemorial.
Everybody from Julius Caesar to John Belushi can attest to the optimum breathability of a toga.
What do you suppose cavemen wore? It wasn’t tight. Let’s not fake Gen Z is uncommon.
It was the thin jeansters who have been society’s unlucky anomaly.
Oliver Mosier
Brooklyn
Poisonous development
To Brooke Steinberg, writer of “Ready to Exhale” (Could 24): “Chroming,” which teenagers at the moment are replicating, most definitely comes immediately from “Mad Max: Fury Highway,” the place the unhealthy man’s acolytes sprayed their mouths with chrome spray paint simply earlier than their kamikaze-like act, in order that they’d be shiny and “chrome” earlier than assembly their maker. This act was very distinguished and repeated within the movie.
My dad used to say: “Monkey see, monkey do” every time idiots (like me, occasionally) did some silly act simply because they noticed another fool doing it.
At the moment, with the web (and extra with TikTok), our very social and impressionable youth, seeking to get “likes,” now have 24/7 entry to such doubtlessly harmful habits.
We will let this run its course and attend an increasing number of funerals for our youth, or we will be adults, present robust love and both ban youths from accessing this crap and/or maintain those that become profitable from such suggestive and addictive “thoughts porn” legally liable.
Sufficient already.
Demetrius Kalamaras
Staten Island
Wish to weigh in on at the moment’s tales? Ship your ideas (alongside along with your full title and metropolis of residence) to letters@nypost.com. Letters are topic to enhancing for readability, size, accuracy and elegance.
