21 hours Ago By Voice of the People
Manhattan: I am writing to the city that has captured my heart. The city where poetry lives, beauty thrives, romance lingers and love unfolds. And on this day, I pay tribute to these elements of life because poetry, beauty, romance and love are the things I stay alive for.
New York City is a canvas on which millions paint their desires in countless colors, thickly layered or lightly sketched, abstract or realistic. It all fits, and it is all allowed on this one canvas. Here, I discovered what is real and what is illusion.
I learned to listen to myself, to dream, to live and to love again. This is a city where love blossoms and hearts break. But with certainty, I know that heartbreak never comes without the promise of a new beginning.
Every brushstroke on this canvas is an echo of a dream. The skyscrapers stand as thick strokes of ambition. The footsteps on Fifth Ave.
set the rhythm of every brushstroke. The neon signs of Times Square splash raw emotion onto the canvas, illuminating the night. Every day, a new layer is painted over the last.
The paint is thick with stories, hope and despair. Here, I dared to blend my colors with those of the city. New York as the canvas and me, just a brushstroke in this eternal painting.
Here, I have felt both vulnerable and invincible. This is where I want to be. This is where I need to be.
I know it. I feel it. And that is the most beautiful gift I could receive.
Daan Schaap Manhattan: Happy Valentine’s Day! I love New York City forever more. Rock ‘n’ roll! Eva Tortora East Elmhurst: While driving Tuesday on the Whitestone Expressway, chunks of snow fell off of the top of a school bus and also a tractor-trailer. Fortunately, no one was hit by these dangerous projectiles.
With more snowstorms in the forecast, all vehicles should be cleared of snow before driving, even tops of large vehicles. Clifford Scharff Brooklyn: I am not sure why everyone is so worked up about changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Those name changes never stick.
Who calls Sixth Ave. “Avenue of the Americas” or the Triborough Bridge the “RFK Bridge”? I still call the numbered subway trains the IRT. Ira Cure Manhattan: I did not have a problem with the charges against Mayor Adams, as I believe he has been doing good for the city.
But now I have a big problem with him meeting with President Trump and those charges suddenly and mysteriously being dropped. Adams will not get my vote again. Cindy Roberts Bronx: The only sitting mayor in the history of NYC who has been indicted on federal charges has been given a reprieve by his hero.
You’re not surprised, are you? All that bowing and scraping, all the ring-kissing and private chats, telling his administration not to criticize the president, fearing he may not get his hero to save him. Is this the best our city can hope for? What a terrible waste of time for you grand jurors who gave up time with your family and jobs to reach a decision based on evidence presented to indict Adams, only to have your decision tossed out. We can assume there will be no trial in April, and there will be no jury of New Yorkers who would hear evidence and conclude that he is guilty or not guilty.
It must be nice to have friends in high places, Mr. Mayor. Nancy Reilly Brooklyn: So, Trump’s Department of Justice told Manhattan federal prosecutors to drop the corruption case against Mayor Adams.
Maybe Adams can drop his incessant attempt to rob NYC retirees of their medical insurance. Trump should help the retirees get what we worked for and were promised instead of worrying about and helping this sorry excuse for a mayor! Joy Tschupp Breezy Point: Should we now start to call the mayor Stormy Adams? Pat Campbell Manhattan: Eleven-year-old Lucas was born in Queens to American citizens who were born in Colombia. Lucas is now afraid to go to school.
His schoolmates are all afraid. They were all born here to immigrant parents. To whom can these children and their parents turn for protection? Mel Miller Brooklyn: I am confused.
Back in the day, all immigrants had to be here legally. If not, they were sent back to their country, no warrant or court order needed. As far as I know, it is still the same Constitution.
What changed? Josie Oliveri Massapequa Park, L.I.: So, Joe Biden can defy the Supreme Court and cancel hundreds of millions of dollars in student debt and the Democrats are fine with that.
President Trump wants to open the government books and expose hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted taxpayer money and the Democrats flip out. There is something very wrong here, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to try and stop him. Raymond P.
Moran Manhattan: The world is on the brink of disaster — war, hatred, racism / Sadly, our troubles are many / Yet, the president is now on a mission / To get rid of paper straws and the penny. Phoebe Celentano Merion Station, Pa.: I’m simultaneously laughing and screaming in anger after learning that Ye is promoting a swastika T-shirt on his website .
Someone in his entourage should explain to him that the dark-skinned peoples of the world were on the Nazi hit list along with Jews. The only reason the Nazis didn’t murder more Africans was that there were too few under Nazi hegemony. Ye should learn how the Nazis murdered Black French POWs and American ones, such as the Wereth 11.
During the Battle of the Bulge, the Wereth 11 surrendered but were nevertheless murdered like the white GIs who had surrendered at Malmedy, but with one difference: Fanatical SS troops mutilated the bodies of these 11 African-American artillerymen. Last week marked the 80th anniversary of the discovery of their disfigured corpses after a heavy snow cover finally melted. Paul L.
Newman Brooklyn: To Voicer Richard Barsanti: Thank you for pointing out that our current president may have declared it fake news, but the world temperature is still soaring and climate disasters and damage are still rampant. The price of energy is also soaring, with Con Ed requesting double-digit rate hikes. Gov.
Hochul reversed course on helping New Yorkers afford them. She was set to announce cap-and-invest, which would tackle both dirty emissions and affordability, when she suddenly got cold feet. Cap-and-invest caps emissions and charges for allowances, providing revenue to lower our bills, clean up pollution and invest in clean energy, all while providing financial incentive to pollute less.
Kathy, just bring it back! Heather Falk North Babylon, L.I.: To Voicer John L.
Rienecker: The outrageous $91 in delivery charges you paid on your gas bill shows how gas companies are profiting off all our backs. Ratepayers like us support their building of pipelines we don’t even need based on totally out-of-date Public Service Commission regulations. The NY HEAT (Home Energy Affordable Transition) Act is the fix — if only Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie would have the guts to bring it to a vote like Senate Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins has successfully done for the last two years.
NY HEAT stops new, unnecessary dirty pipelines and saves us money. It brings clean air, itself a money-saver in medical bills, together with energy affordability, literally capping monthly gas charges. NY HEAT would be a win for all New Yorkers if Heastie could do the right thing and Hochul, who unaccountably left it out of her executive budget, signs it into law.
Alexa Marinos Manhattan: Hey, they booed Santa Claus (December 1968), so who is Taylor Swift? Louis Russo.
