Legal hell for landlords and more: Letters to the Editor — April 13, 2025

Landlord hell
As commercialized spot owners, my family and I person weathered nan new, “revenue producing” rules, purposely convoluted notices, and unanswered calls and emails (“Will Bronx Burn Again?” Kenny Burgos, PostOpinion, April 7).

We followed tribunal process that went connected for 9 months successful bid to legally evict a tenant whose business was unfastened and operating, but stopped paying rent and different charges.

Then we received a Judgement for Possession. You whitethorn judge we could locomotion into nan premises we own, alteration nan locks and effort to rent nan space, right? Wrong. Now nan hold for a warrant for nan marshal to statesman that process, and nan estimate is 5 to six months to get a signature for a warrant.

Could anyone past complete a twelvemonth pinch nary revenue? I deliberation not. The law-breaking personification (the tenant), gets rewarded complete and over, and nan law-abiding landlord gets screwed.
Mindy K. Reyes, Manhattan

Empire Wind woes
With a three-column listing of nan harm that will beryllium caused by this Empire Wind offshore project, really tin it beryllium fixed nan greenish ray to proceed (“Danger astatine Sea,” Bonnie Brady, April 11)?

I americium each for smart power but not astatine nan costs of decimating our oceans. Even conscionable arsenic horrendous arsenic mentioned successful this eye-opening article, whales are permanently deafened by turbines and nan process of installing them.

I recognize we request progress. but not astatine nan costs of guiltless water lives.
Donna Skjeveland, Holbrook

No-stop insanity
Not contented pinch kneecapping constabulary pinch pro-criminal bail laws and revolving-door justice, our Albany legislative geniuses now want to forestall officers from stopping and aliases searching drivers complete specified issues arsenic busted headlights aliases taillights, cracked windshields, missing plates, model tinting and different motor-vehicle violations (“Critics slam measure banning bull stops,” April 7).

Legal car stops forestall crime and heighten safe driving. And of people nan logic offered for this projected measure is that constabulary are racially biased. If constabulary disregard these type of violations, you tin beryllium judge nan information of nan nationalist will beryllium astatine risk.
Joseph Valente, Staten Island

RIP, Bob McManus
I was very sorry to perceive astir nan decease of Bob McManus (“Post’s ‘voice’ passes astatine 81,” April 6).
His columns were models of intellectually rigorous, commonsensical approaches to immoderate rumor he tackled.

His humaneness was ever discernible wrong nan tough-minded exterior, truthful nan scholar knew that he aliases she was getting neither impractical basking aerial nor cynical posturing.

It must’ve been a awesome privilege to stock agency abstraction pinch him. I consciousness that he was a existent stalwart successful these acheronian days for people journalism. A existent professional, and a full batch more. May he remainder successful peace.
David Rabinovitz, Brooklyn

Take backmost Title IX
Meghan McCain is spot-on arsenic it relates to trans athletes competing successful women’s sports (“Can’t transcend this,” April 4).

It matters small astir nan number of cases; nan integrity of women’s sports has and will everlastingly beryllium changed without nan backing of McCain and different high-profile supporters.

Huge strides were made successful nan 1960s to commencement nan process of women gaining entree and scholarships for organized sports connected a collegiate level. This yet lead to Title IX successful 1972. So, present we are, 58 years later, connected nan brink of sabotaging each that was gained for women successful sports.
Nancy Delpriore, Stuart, Fla.