It’s rrruff without dog run at night  To The Editor: Just before Hurricane Sandy tore apart our neighborhood, I adopted a 7-month-old puppy. A smart little watchdog, she was comforting company during the blackout. Since then she has grown like a weed and is now a large mass of moving puppy play energy. I want [...]

Dissing of Durst is ‘disgraceful’     To The Editor: Re “Ditching Friends, Durst to pursue own Pier 40 plan” (news article, Dec. 20): Tobi Bergman’s comments about Douglas Durst’s motives and his ability as the leader of a nonprofit organization are disgraceful. As Arthur Schwartz stated in the article, the Friends wouldn’t exist today [...]

Sexton really packs ’em in To The Editor: Re “No confidence in Sexton?” (Scoopy’s Notebook, Dec. 13): John Sexton and his predecessors have ruined New York University and the Village area. Sexton wants N.Y.U. to be on par with Harvard and Yale, but has succeeded in turning N.Y.U. into a very expensive community college. A [...]

Change the political climate To The Editor: Re “Sandy’s surge not sinking residential urge at Pier 40” (news article, Dec. 6): As usual, it’s all blocking and no ideas or alternatives from Assemblymember Glick. It seems as if she believes she is some sort of visionary for opposing housing because of rising water levels and [...]

We need this NID — now!  To The Editor: Re “Park needs a NID to close cash gap, advocates assert” (news article, Nov. 29): As a residential property owner in the Village, a member of Community Board 2 and a lifelong resident of the Village, I fully support the creation of the Hudson River Park [...]

Forget about this BID To The Editor: Re “Soho’s BID battle rages on at Council committee hearing” (news article, Nov. 22): Thank you for an excellent article that gives voice to the opposition as well as to  the promoters of the business district. I call on Councilmember Margaret Chin,  Domenic Recchia, chairperson of the Council’s [...]

Kinda nice being off the grid To The Editor: Re “Notes from the disaster zone; A survivor sounds off” (talking point, Nov.  9): I read Bill Whineberg’s (sic) rant about the effects of Sandy. I not for one moment lamented the loss of power, of water, of heat and all the other inconveniences and of [...]

Knickerbocker’s nightmare To The Editor: Thousands of Knickerbocker Village residents in Chinatown are still without electricity, heat, hot water, Internet and other vital services. This complex is not public housing. Angry residents charge that the buildings’ owners and managers have been negligent in their response to Hurricane Sandy, and also callous and indifferent to suffering residents. [...]

A cooler spot for ice To The Editor: Re “Ice, ice baby: Con Ed chips in with chilly chunks”  (photos, Nov. 3): This certainly didn ’t help those of us further Downtown and west of Union Square. They easily could have put an ice center in Ruth Wittenberg Triangle at the intersection of Sixth and [...]

A hurricane of news To The Editor: Hunkering down for Hurricane Sandy, I was delighted to spend some time with the latest issue of the East Villager. One story after another piqued my interest, from the plans for the Seward Park area to the heartening green efforts of our local schools and politicians. It was [...]