To the editor:
Re: B.I.D. group charges many opponents aren’t in the district (news article by Aline Reynolds, Aug. 17)
We live on Wooster Street and we are as totally against the Soho B.I.D. as are our neighbors on Broadway. Its proponents are dishonest when they claim it will improve or be a benefit to our neighborhood. Most of them don’t even live in the neighborhood, so who are they to judge what will be good for us? It is a divisive proposition.
Karen and David Kaufman
Power co.’s are vultures
To the editor:
Re: “Close Indian Point” (Downtown Express editorial, Aug. 4):
I agree with your basic point that having a nuclear facility this close to New York is only headed for trouble, but I find your view narrow and disturbing.
The battle over closing Indian Point has been going on for years in Upstate New York. Local land owners are in an uproar that New York Regional Interconnect Inc. (a strange name for a Canadian power company) has the audacity to propose putting up 90-foot-tall electrical towers along the river in the Upper Delaware watershed. This waterway has a national designation as a “wild and scenic river” and state recognition as a “scenic byway.” This will destroy the pristine river that local communities have worked and sacrificed to preserve.
Could they run the power lines down the existing scar of the New York State Thruway? No, that would cost them too much money. They would rather work a deal with the desperate Norfolk Southern Railway, which owns the rights to the existing rail lines along the river. The only use for the tracks at this time is to haul New York City garbage to landfills far out of sight of the editors of this paper.
I am afraid that the editors of Downtown Express are as uninformed as the N.Y.R.I. power company representative at a town hall meeting in Callicoon, N.Y. This misinformed puppet, at a meeting that he organized, thought he was in Orange County that night when he was actually in Sullivan.
You are not informed when you write about closing Indian Point without a discussion about the money-grabbing vultures that prey on the natural beauty and resources of New York State. The same problems arise with hydrofracking and the natural gas industry in Upstate New York.
Why are our elected officials even considering allowing these ruthless energy companies to crassly destroy our state with the cheapest, most convenient solutions so that they can make high profits? For one reason: re-election money.
William Schwinghammer
