Don’t give up the fight!
To The Editor:
Re “ ‘N.Y. Corporate U.’ is crushing us, critics cry” (news article, Sept. 3):
Thanks to N.Y.U. Faculty Against the Sexton Plan for strength and leadership over the years and for organizing the rally, and thanks to the speakers who represented thousands of people.
Special thanks to the 200 who stood in the heat and listened and brought the messages back to the thousands opposed to N.Y.U. 2031. And kudos once again to Terri Cude and CAAAN2031 for leading the foot soldiers every day, in every way.
If N.Y.U. had taken advantage of the vast knowledge, expertise, talent and dedication of those willing to work with them, free of charge, to come up with a non-destructive plan years ago, it could have been occupying academic, lab, office and student space, with room to grow, for years now, instead of spending academic money for lawyers and architects and PR people.
The superblocks community of residents, faculty, staff, children, seniors and small businesses has been living with uncertainty and anxiety, without any real contact with the N.Y.U. administration and real estate developer trustees.
N.Y.U. has still not answered why it needs to demolish Greenwich Village — the Greenwich Village that has made N.Y.U. a unique location for years. What if Paris tore down its Latin Quarter and the Sorbonne?
Stay strong, my friends. Chin and Quinn did us in, but we will fight and we will win!
Judith Chazen Walsh
Can’t beat the corp.?
To The Editor:
Re “ ‘N.Y. Corporate U.’ is crushing us, critics cry” (news article, Sept. 3):
It’s staggering that New York University keeps winning versus an entire historic, unique anti-N.Y.U.-expansion neighborhood. Money talks, and overcomes everything else. The corporatocracy has taken over.
Cynthia Crane
We need a hospital
To The Editor:
Re “Couldn’t be saved” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Sept. 3):
Idrissa Camara, the security guard at the federal building on Hudson St. who was so brutally gunned down by a madman, was taken to the Lenox Health Greenwich Village stand-alone emergency department, between 12th and 13th Sts. on Seventh Ave.
The Villager reports that the executive director of Lenox Health said efforts were made in the ambulance and at the E.D. to save this man’s life, or at least stabilize him so that he could be sent to a hospital trauma center that was farther away. He was deemed “too unstable” to have survived being taken directly to a more distant trauma center: Bellevue Hospital, with a level-one trauma center, is at 27th St. and First Ave. Tragically, all efforts were for naught and Mr. Camara died at Lenox Health.
Dial back to early 2010, and there would have been a fully functioning level-one trauma center across the street from Lenox Health. If Mr. Camara could have been saved, St. Vincent’s Hospital would have been ready to try.
Lenox Health was created as a consolation for the enraged and sorrowful West Village community residents who lost their beloved hospital, so that Bill Rudin, a mega-rich developer, could build a whole lot of totally unaffordable, unneeded and unwanted luxury residences on the former hospital site, further gentrifying the neighborhood, driving up local prices and causing numerous neighborhood businesses to close. It’s a fine facility, but it’s no substitute for a hospital.
St. Vincent’s, ludicrously mismanaged by the uncaring people at the top, folded with $1 billion in debt, though many devoted staff members tried to keep it going, like the crewmen on the Titanic. Local politicians bemoaned the loss and then mysteriously all fell silent.
People are really dying this way.
Carol F. Yost
Grr! Commercial noise!
To The Editor:
Saturday afternoon I headed for Tompkins Square Park — where I rarely go, because it is so noisy. And sure enough, there was dreadful noise pervading the whole park, produced by JS Telecom, where the band shell used to be. It was music to some and a few people dancing, but noise to me.
I talked to a friendly policeman and Park Enforcement Patrol officer, who suggested I call 311.
I asked a few people on the benches how they felt about it. Most just shrugged their shoulders. One couple heartily agreed with me.
To me this was just advertising noise for JS Telecom. I was disgusted — and am heading today, Labor Day, for Central Park.
Marianne Landre Goldscheider
Not quite to her taste
To The Editor:
Re “Mrs. Green’s, thanks for schwag, but who are you?” (Notebook, by Michele Herman, Aug. 27):
A little northwest Village-centric. … D’Ag certainly isn’t the “only full-service supermarket” in the Village. And not every Villager is “schlepping to Chelsea for food.”
Stacy Walsh Rosenstock
Blameless on homeless
To The Editor:
Re “Crusty punk whose pit bull terrorized East Village is dead” (news article, Sept. 3):
Protest Bloomberg, Giuliani and Trump for creating the massive rise in homelessness on Sun., Nov. 15, at 3 p.m., at Fifth Ave. and E. 79th St.
The real cause of the massive rise in homelessness in New York is former Mayor Mike Bloomberg — one of the richest men on the planet — who turned New York over to luxury high-end real estate developers, like Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and was behind runaway gentrification to help his wealthy elite friends and himself.
The protest will start at Bloomberg’s mansion, followed by a march to the homes of Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump in New York City, who, in addition to Bloomberg, share the blame for the massive rise in homelessness and are instead saying Mayor Bill de Blasio caused it.
Bring your drums and please take the time to invite your Facebook friends.
Paul DeRienzo
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