Disgraced former NY Meeting Speaker Sheldon Silver died in jail final week and it is a "becoming" legacy, one Submit reader says.
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Transplant tragedy
Nobody ought to be barred from receiving a transplant completely primarily based on their inoculation standing (“No vax? No transplant,” Jan. 26).
The COVID vaccine has develop into equal to medical VIP standing and the prerequisite to medical care. What’s subsequent? Will medical care be denied to youngsters with out the rooster pox vaccine or most cancers sufferers who refused the HPV vaccine?
Organ transplants are dangerous with or with out the vaccine. DJ Ferguson suffers from a nasty coronary heart and has acquired heartless information primarily based on coverage.
This strong-armed method to medical care will invite medical prejudice, create mistrust between residents and the medical system and severely have an effect on folks in determined want of care. Ferguson’s vaccination standing shouldn't have triggered him to be faraway from the organ transplant record.
G. Joi Bailey
Macomb, Mich.
Defending tenants
The suggestion that Blackstone doesn't care about its residents is inaccurate and uninformed (“Gov Stands Tall on Evictions,” Editorial, Jan. 22).
For practically two years, Blackstone has had a nationwide coverage to not evict anybody for non-payment through the pandemic, even in states with no moratorium.
In New York Metropolis, we have been one of many first homeowners to permit residents to make use of their safety deposits towards lease, and we additionally allowed voluntary lease breaks. These have been along with organising a meals pantry with Metropolis Harvest that delivered a couple of million kilos of groceries to these in want.
Blackstone in fact additionally performed a key function in securing the continued affordability of 5,000 flats in StuyTown after the earlier proprietor defaulted. New York benefited, and we set a typical for the function property homeowners can play throughout a nationwide housing disaster.
Most not too long ago, Blackstone’s House Companions of America introduced a $1 billion affordable-housing program to assist low-to-moderate-income People lease properties at a reduction to allow them to lower your expenses earlier than probably shopping for these properties. As housing costs soar, we're serving to make house possession goals a actuality.
We’re extraordinarily pleased with our housing report and can proceed to do all the things we are able to to assist our residents.
Nadeem Maghji
Head of Actual Property Americas, Blackstone
Manhattan
Silver’s legacy
It was becoming and well-deserved that Sheldon Silver died in jail (“Silver dies in jail,” Jan. 25).
Silver took an oath to symbolize the residents who paid his wage and he betrayed that oath and he betrayed us.
For many who say who ought to bear in mind Silver for the nice issues he did — something good he did went out the window when he selected to ignore his tasks and simply search for private achieve.
Corruption in politics is a endless state of affairs, which is why corrupt politicians should be held accountable.
I make cash the old school means: I earn it.
Kreg Ramone
Manhattan
Shoplift scourge
I’ve lived at One Irving Place since 1989, throughout which we loved an A & P Meals Emporium in our constructing (“Hey, assist your-shelf,” Jan. 27).
Costs and meals choice have been wonderful, and the comfort was very good. However through the de Blasio administration, crimes of shoplifting have been merely ignored. It got here to a degree the place the homeowners may not make a revenue. The shop closed.
Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg, take notice: Enterprise and folks will go away our metropolis due to your reckless disregard of the regulation.
Michael O’Brien
Manhattan
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