Legal hell for landlords and more: Letters – Latest News
Landlord hell
As industrial property homeowners, my household and I’ve weathered the new, “revenue producing” guidelines, purposely convoluted notices, and unanswered calls and emails (“Will Bronx Burn Again?” Kenny Burgos, PostOpinion, April 7).
We adopted courtroom process that went on for 9 months in an effort to legally evict a tenant whose business was open and working, however stopped paying rent and different costs.
Then we acquired a Judgement for Possession. You might imagine we may stroll into the premises we own, change the locks and attempt to rent the space, proper? Wrong. Now the wait for a warrant for the marshal to start that course of, and the estimate is 5 to 6 months to get a signature for a warrant.
Could anybody final over a 12 months with no income? I believe not. The law-breaking individual (the tenant), will get rewarded over and over, and the law-abiding landlord will get screwed.
Mindy Okay. Reyes, Manhattan
Empire Wind woes
With a three-column itemizing of the harm that shall be brought on by this Empire Wind offshore project, how can or not it’s given the inexperienced mild to proceed (“Danger at Sea,” Bonnie Brady, April 11)?
I’m all for sensible vitality however not on the price of decimating our oceans. Even simply as horrendous as talked about on this eye-opening article, whales are completely deafened by generators and the method of putting in them.
I notice we need progress. however not on the price of harmless ocean lives.
Donna Skjeveland, Holbrook
No-stop madness
Not content material with kneecapping police with pro-criminal bail legal guidelines and revolving-door justice, our Albany legislative geniuses now need to forestall officers from stopping and or looking out drivers over such points as busted headlights or taillights, cracked windshields, lacking plates, window tinting and different motor-vehicle violations (“Critics slam bill banning cop stops,” April 7).
Legal car stops forestall crime and improve protected driving. And of course the rationale provided for this proposed invoice is that police are racially biased. If police ignore these sort of violations, you might be sure the protection of the public shall be at risk.
Joseph Valente, Staten Island
RIP, Bob McManus
I used to be very sorry to listen to in regards to the death of Bob McManus (“Post’s ‘voice’ passes at 81,” April 6).
His columns have been fashions of intellectually rigorous, commonsensical approaches to no matter challenge he tackled.
His humaneness was at all times discernible within the tough-minded exterior, so the reader knew that she or he was getting neither impractical sizzling air nor cynical posturing.
It should’ve been a great privilege to share workplace space with him. I sense that he was a true stalwart in these darkish days for print journalism. A real skilled, and a complete lot more. May he relaxation in peace.
David Rabinovitz, Brooklyn
Take back Title IX
Meghan McCain is spot-on because it pertains to trans athletes competing in girls’s sports activities (“Can’t transcend this,” April 4).
It issues little in regards to the quantity of instances; the integrity of girls’s sports activities has and will ceaselessly be modified with out the backing of McCain and different high-profile supporters.
Huge strides have been made within the Sixties to begin the method of girls gaining entry and scholarships for organized sports activities on a collegiate stage. This in the end result in Title IX in 1972. So, right here we’re, 58 years later, on the brink of sabotaging all that was gained for girls in sports activities.
Nancy Delpriore, Stuart, Fla.
