Mamdani’s end to encampment sweeps: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s intention to end the clearing of homeless encampments.
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will stop at nothing to destroy town, citizen by citizen (“Zo nix on clearing camps of homeless,” Dec. 5).
This not solely consists of the wealthy, however the poor and homeless. New York has not skilled a brutal winter in years however the 2026 is forecast to be snowier and colder than average.
To paraphrase the Book of Exodus, Mamdani is saying, “Let my people freeze.”
T. King
Manhattan
I’m glad to hear the incoming mayor is not going to take away homeless encampments.
Let them set up exterior Gracie Mansion and in Tribeca, Park Slope and Williamsburg. The people residing there are those who voted for him.
Mike Lapinga
Staten Island
Hey Zoh, it will have been good in the event you began your mayoralty with a good thought, however as anticipated, your first coverage says you need the homeless to freeze to death by leaving tent cities alone.
You should not even in workplace but, and also you’re additional upsetting the respectable people who had the brains not to vote for you.
I ponder if the knuckleheads who did vote for you’re proud of this ignorant coverage?
J.R. Cummings
Manhattan
I hope the encampments begin on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side. Let all of the morons who voted for this candidate endure. They don’t perceive elections have penalties.
Many, together with myself, have stopped going into town because the congestion toll. Now Mamdani’s encampments will do wonders for all the companies that depend upon people visiting town.
Phil Vallone
Ossining
The homeless population will exponentially increase underneath Mamdani. It would be the starting of the end for NYC.
These should not people attempting to save a couple of dollars by pitching a tent within the native park; they’re people coping with mental sickness or dependancy.
There is no doubt this downside wants a resolution. But compounding the issue earlier than it could even start to be addressed is a recipe for catastrophe.
Bo Madden
Jupiter, Fla.
Mamdani’s plan is fantasy. A big proportion of homeless people are homeless as a result of of mental sickness or dependancy. Leaving them in homeless encampments all through town helps no one.
He wants to determine how to deal with this downside from the foundation trigger, or he’ll make it worse for everybody.
Steve Preziosa Sr.
Deptford, NJ
The Issue: Rich Lowry’s column cheering President Trump’s end to authorities strain pushing EVs.
Rich Lowry will not be alone in cheering President Trump for “saving the gas-powered car” (“Exit electric-car idiocy,” Dec. 6).
You know who else is cheering? Chinese electric-car corporations. They are dominating the market with reasonably priced, high-tech electric vehicles, bringing down the smog of their own cities, and different cities all over the world.
But right here in America, we proceed to breathe within the fumes from our gas-powered site visitors whereas the remainder of the world embraces a clean future.
Trump is holding us up to now so his fossil-fuel donors can keep making earnings at our expense.
Mary Memmott
Framingham, Mass.
We have all the time been in a position to select to buy a gas-powered car. One may additionally select to drive a horse-drawn buggy — all choices can be found. But electric vehicles price much less to preserve, are cheaper to drive, lower air air pollution and help us compete with China.
So thanks for the selection, President Trump — however no thanks.
Susan Donaldson
Northampton, Mass.
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