Design, not persuasion, can cease subway browsing
Corona: “Experience inside, keep alive.” We hear this message each time we trip the practice. It’s speculated to cease children from subway browsing or using outdoors the practice (picture). However we’re children, and we will let you know that these bulletins do the other. They make children extra interested by subway browsing, not much less. Older children chortle on the message and use it because the soundtrack of their browsing movies.
We’re 9 and 10 years previous. The typical subway surfer is simply 4 or 5 years older than us. Within the final three years, 16 individuals died subway browsing in NYC. This didn’t should occur. In our analysis, we discovered it’s well-liked due to movies on social media. We discovered about Norma Nazario, who misplaced her son to subway browsing and is suing TikTok and Instagram. We additionally discovered that it’s uncommon for this sort of lawsuit to work. Even when it did, it might be unimaginable for TikTok, Snapchat or Instagram to catch and delete each video.
If PSAs and lawsuits don’t work, what can we do? We consider the MTA wants to revamp the trains. We spent weeks making new practice designs and invited an engineer to have a look at them. Our concepts embody open gangway automobiles, detachable ladders, motion sensors with alarms and extra cameras. The MTA is testing limitations on the No. 7 trains and we sit up for seeing if this helps, however we’re calling for town to do extra and do it sooner. Children are those most harm by subway browsing, so you must take heed to us! Replace our trains or we’ll lose extra children. Class 404, P.S. 211/Elm Tree Elementary College
Skeleton crew?
Mamaroneck, N.Y.: Re “Veto this subway featherbedding” (editorial, Nov. 17): What? No conductors on trains? Little doubt Gov. Hochul desires the MTA to have one individual or no person working a practice. I do know that is frequent in most cities around the globe, however I don’t know whether or not this concept will probably be a hit or failure. And conductors will suppose, “Am I going to be extinct or will I nonetheless have a job?” Thomas J. Cunningham
Insensitive subhed
Flushing: Re “No new slays in metropolis for per week” (Dec. 4): I discover your subheading, “November ties 2018 document with simply 16 homicides, and none in Qns. or S.I.,” to be very distasteful and inconsiderate, to say the least. How do you suppose the households of the 16 murder victims should really feel after studying how your paper belittled their deceased family members, calling all 16 harmless victims “simply 16”? Even one murder sufferer in November would have been one too many! You would very effectively have written: “November ties 2018 document with 16 homicides.” You’d have delivered the identical message whereas inflicting much less harm. You simply poured salt on an open wound. It’s best to put extra thought into your headlines. Martin Goldman
Actually progressive
Bronx: Re “The DSA undercuts Black New Yorkers” (op-ed, Dec. 4): Darius Jones has sketched out a highway map that may improve public security and create jobs and housing for all New Yorkers. Gene Roman
See the statutes
Manhattan: Sorry, Voicer Gabrielle R. Shatan, who referred to as the ICE brokers trapped in a parking storage “cowardly.” Impeding federal officers from finishing up their duties is a federal crime, which might have severe penalties, together with imprisonment. 18 U.S. Code §111 criminalizes the forcible assault, resistance, opposition, impedance, intimidation or interference with federal workers. The actions of the protesters had been additionally crimes below New York State regulation. New York Penal Legislation §135.00 prohibits deliberately limiting somebody’s motion with out consent. New York Penal Legislation §135.10 (illegal imprisonment) prohibits detaining somebody with out authorized authority, like trapping them in a room or car. The actual cowards had been the protesters who ran away to New Jersey to keep away from any penalties of their unlawful actions. Nancy L. Brenner
Pointless prize
Henderson, Nev.: FIFA has bestowed its first-ever FIFA Peace Prize to President Trump, a worthy recipient. A number of world leaders, together with María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition chief and the 2025 Nobel Peace Value recipient, consider that Trump additionally deserves a Nobel Peace Prize. So, will Trump lastly get a Nobel subsequent yr? At this level, who cares. To me, it has change into a largely irrelevant prize handed out by European cultural snobs. David Tulanian
Ungodly agenda
Peters Township, Pa.: As he was sworn in simply two days after his slim victory within the race for the U.S. Home of Representatives, Tennessee Republican Matt Van Epps stated, “I come to this physique as a Christian.” He has pledged agency devotion to Trump and his agenda. How does Van Epps sq. the 2? Trump has expectorated upon the tenets of each faith. He’s a thug, a bigot and essentially the most corrupt president ever to serve, enriching himself and his household of grifters to the tune of billions. He seeks to divide and conquer, and has clearly expressed his hatred and contempt for many who oppose him, embarking upon a marketing campaign of revenge. He has contempt for individuals of colour and immigrants as he seeks to welcome solely white people. Can Van Epps cite any aspect of his religion modeled by the president to whom he clings? Oren Spiegler
Present some respect
Riverhead, L.I.: It’s fully ridiculous how one-sided this paper has change into. You guys want to acknowledge and attempt to be taught to just accept that Trump is your president. He has achieved higher issues thus far than any Democrat has achieved previously 100 years. It’s unhappy to see what this paper has change into. S. Smalls
Powerful girl
Little Ferry, N.J.: In a approach, Nancy Pelosi was the iron chief of the left. It’s so unhappy — we reside in a time once we’ve misplaced a way of decency and good manners are out the door. That is closing our society, and in the end we won’t communicate to our fellow individual. Would it not have been so tough for Trump to say one thing good about Pelosi? Certain, he might say they disagree on many points however he revered her management. Pelosi was a tricky girl, however she knew the right way to play the sport. She knew her individuals and the right way to lead them. We don’t should agree along with her positions, however she leaves her mark on Congress ceaselessly! Gary Schwartz
Legacy of peacemaking
Jersey Metropolis: Forty-five years in the past, on Dec. 8, 1980, the world misplaced John Lennon, a musician whose voice, spirit and creativeness helped form an period. His songs provided greater than melodies — they provided hope. His haunting lyrics, daring concepts and unmistakable voice touched thousands and thousands in a uniquely private approach. At a time marked by conflict, racial pressure and political division, Lennon dared to consider in peace and the essential goodness of individuals. Mark David Chapman’s mindless act silenced an artist who requested solely that we “Give Peace a Likelihood.” It’s a merciless irony that so many peacemakers like Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Anwar Sadat met violent ends. In the present day, renewed curiosity in Lennon and The Beatles reminds us why his work endures. Lennon’s legacy stays easy and pressing: Try for peace, for equality, and for a world worthy of the desires he sang about. Jack D’Elia
Delayed urgency
Brooklyn: “New York Metropolis’s looming energy disaster” (op-ed, Dec. 2) is just like the boy who cried wolf. The New York Impartial System Operator’s most up-to-date report is primarily involved with the state of unreliable gasoline era. Gov. Hochul ought to know that gasoline mills are inclined to fail within the chilly climate. She must be proof against gasoline business scare ways, however it’s superb what lobbyists can do. The frequent superstorms we’re now getting because of regular development in emissions from burning gasoline and oil trigger immense flooding injury, and down heavy tree branches and full bushes that carry down energy traces on Lengthy Island and within the outer boroughs. This NYISO shouldn’t be involved about reliability, not less than till years into the longer term. We must be hardening the grid in opposition to local weather injury, however we should additionally velocity up the queue of ready-to-go clear vitality tasks that may carry us dependable energy year-round. Becky Plattus
Prime-notch ‘toons
Manhattan: No matter you’re paying Bramhall shouldn’t be sufficient. He’s the most effective. Robert Clements
