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Middletown, N.J.: I would like to acknowledge a woman who, in my opinion, is a true New Yorker! Her name is Sandra Roth Ruskin, she is an administrator for a Facebook group called “New York City Images 1850-1980.” It is a large group of people who celebrate NYC (all five boroughs) by posting images with photos and paintings of our fair city!

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Readers sound off on NYC history on Facebook, paying for potholes and N.Y.’s unemployment insurance

March 7, 2024 at 3:15 a.m.

Middletown, N.J.: I would like to acknowledge a woman who, in my opinion, is a true New Yorker! Her name is Sandra Roth Ruskin, she is an administrator for a...

Protestors demonstrate at the March for Reproductive Rights organized by Women’s March L.A. on April 15, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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Readers sound off on political disillusionment, Biden’s Gaza policy and congestion pricing hearings

March 6, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Briarwood: Last week on one of the cable networks, there was a report concerning Trump fatigue or anti-Trump burnout. The report indicated that people were getting tired of hearing about...

The U.S. Supreme Court building is photographed on Jan. 8, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

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Readers sound off on presidential immunity, a removed Banksy and a Coney Island casino

March 5, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Washington: Donald Trump has argued that his actions after the election of President Biden, particularly on Jan. 6, 2021, were official acts. The case of presidential immunity, in which a...

Manhattan: Re "Black parents in N.Y. need to know their rights" (op-ed, Feb. 26): Anyone can make a report to New York State’s child abuse hotline. If a call about a New York City child is accepted by the state, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is required by state law to respond to allegations and assess the safety of the child. ACS can't choose which families to respond to but must, under law, respond to reports the state accepts.

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Readers sound off on child abuse services, Aaron Bushnell and Ukraine’s predicament

March 4, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: Re "Black parents in N.Y. need to know their rights" (op-ed, Feb. 26): Anyone can make a report to New York State’s child abuse hotline. If a call about...

A unidentified homeless person is pictured sleeping on the cold pavement at 57th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues early Monday, Jan. 15, 2024 in New York. The average temperatures in the next few days will an average of minus 10 degrees. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Daily News)

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Readers sound off on emergency housing vouchers, Mitch McConnell’s legacy and the border

March 4, 2024 at 3:53 p.m.

Manhattan: Re "Upping housing ante" (Feb. 22): When my children and I were escaping from an abusive relationship, my housing voucher was essential to finding our new home, so I’m...

Brooklyn: What occurred on Oct. 7 was terrible, but it in no way justifies what is happening now in Gaza. It is very disappointing that none of New York’s political leaders, whether local, state or federal, have condemned what is occurring there now. Innocents are being indiscriminately killed and people are starving. There is no justification for this.

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Readers sound off on weapons for Israel, slashing on the A and critical race theory

March 2, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Brooklyn: What occurred on Oct. 7 was terrible, but it in no way justifies what is happening now in Gaza. It is very disappointing that none of New York’s political...

Northport, L.I.: Recently on X, which used to be called Twitter, former Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin idiotically found a way to smear President Biden for the horrible death of Russia’s noble freedom fighter Alexei Navalny at the cold, bloody hands of Vladimir Putin’s henchmen in a Siberian prison camp.

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Readers sound off on Lee Zeldin, food toppings and fathers’ rights

March 1, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Northport, L.I.: Recently on X, which used to be called Twitter, former Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin idiotically found a way to smear President Biden for the horrible death of...

Manhattan: So the nightmare goes on. I speak of the continuing support of approximately 60% of Republicans for t’Rump. How crazy is it that they want to subject the country and the world through four more years of the endless lies, nastiness, chaos and lawsuits that this deeply immoral almost 80-year-old brings everywhere he goes?

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Readers sound off on Trump’s supporters, spay-neuter facilities and electric buses

February 29, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: So the nightmare goes on. I speak of the continuing support of approximately 60% of Republicans for t’Rump. How crazy is it that they want to subject the country...

A Eurasian eagle-owl named Flaco sits in a tree in New York's Central Park, Feb. 6, 2023. (Seth Wenig/AP)

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Readers sound off on caging birds, pet overpopulation and Zionist ambitions

February 28, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Manhattan: The world is mourning the death of New York City's beloved Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl who, after 10 years in captivity, escaped from the Central Park Zoo and, defying...

Pasadena, Calif.: Playing into Vladimir Putin's hand, the Republican House of Representatives allows another planted Russian spy, Alexander Smirnov (photo), to infiltrate the inner circle of Republican leadership. Smirnov, who was arrested Feb. 14 at the Las Vegas airport, was indicted for providing “false derogatory information to the FBI” about President Biden and his son Hunter.

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Readers sound off on the Smirnov arrest, an owl’s death and crossing guard safety

February 27, 2024 at 3:00 a.m.

Pasadena, Calif.: Playing into Vladimir Putin's hand, the Republican House of Representatives allows another planted Russian spy, Alexander Smirnov (photo), to infiltrate the inner circle of Republican leadership. Smirnov, who...

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