Letters to the Editor — Aug. 27, 2023
Rudy’s mugshot
Requiring Rudy Giuliani to take a mugshot was an insult to him and the justice system (“Rudy mugged,” Aug. 24).
When one considers this man’s accomplishments, common decency would dictate exercising discretion and tact during the legal process.
The Georgia district attorney obviously lacks the professional courtesy that most of her peers would have exercised, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg excepted.
These individuals can only dream of achieving in a lifetime the success that Rudy has already accomplished to date.
If every current mayor of every major American city emulated the former mayor’s management of New York City, the country would be an infinitely better place to live.
Jerry Chiappetta, Monticello
Helping city strays
The Flatbush Cats clinic will be a great help to those in Brooklyn (“NYC’s gone a-stray,” Aug. 22).
But what about the rest of the city?
While I agree with what City Councilmember Justin Brannan is saying, what took him so long?
He’s been on the council for six years and has done little to nothing on this crucial issue — the homeless-animal crisis.
The city should be doing what the new veterinary clinic is doing.
Many of us have known that since 1994, when the ASPCA gave up the animal control contract to the city.
It’s never done an adequate job, resulting in bad, uninspired management and politicians who don’t know or care.
No more lip service. Now that he has spoken out, it’s up to Brannan to introduce a bill that requires the city to fund low-cost or free spay-and-neuter clinics and to fund “trap, neuter and release” rescuers.
After all, they do the government’s job and often go broke in the process.
Get the bill passed and signed into law.
Otherwise, we will remain a third-world city when it comes to how we treat our animals.
Elizabeth Forel, Manhattan
Cop killer’s parole
The Post editorial “Poster Boy for No Parole” (Aug. 22) was very informative.
If George Acosta is paroled, then it’s proof that New York’s Parole Board has to be reformed.
The Parole Board has sprung 36 cop killers since 2017, and New York can’t afford this soft-on-crime policy any longer.
Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams must be proactive regarding this issue.
Thomas Patrick Folan, Miller Place
Cooper’s nose flub
The picture of actor Bradley Cooper with a prosthetic nose and hair playing Leonard Bernstein, with an inset photo of the real Bernstein, disproves columnist Stephanie Butnick’s argument that the makeup posed no problem (“Nose for Trouble,” PostScript, Aug. 20).
As the attached photo of Cooper shows, the actor looks more like Bernstein with his own nose and hair than he does with the makeup for the Bernstein biopic.
Only a decision to make Bernstein look less pretty and “more Jewish” can explain this anomaly.
Maybe the producers decided that their artificial look was better for their marketing or message, but it also perpetuates stereotypes.
P.L. Gardella, Hamden, Conn.
Vendor crackdown
It’s amazing for the city to go after vendors of counterfeit goods when Brooklyn has loads of community complaints — turnstile jumpers costing the city millions, homeless crazies wandering the streets, etc. (“Canal St. raid seizes $30M in knockoffs,” Aug. 20).
No wonder the city is going down the drain.
Robert Berk, Manhattan
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