Manhattan: To Voicer Fran Boffa: While being respectful of the tragic 1973 killing of 10-year-old Clifford Glover at the hands of a police officer who was white, your feelings are hurt. Why? Because this happened to be an entire fact?
Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: Re “Let jihadi killer live: lawyer” (Feb. 14): Much has been made about “his ISIS-inspired worldview,” which led bike path killer Sayfullo Saipov to hit New York with its worst day of terror since 9/11. Yet it needs to be emphasized that neither ISIS nor Al Qaeda was the originator of that ideology of death.
Wilton, N.Y.: Not too many big-leaguers hail from Wyoming like the Mets’ Brandon Nimmo (photo), who the team recently re-signed to an eight-year, $162-million free-agent contract. Tom Browning, 62, pitched a perfect game while he was with the Cincinnati Reds. He’s from Caspar. Then there’s pitcher Dennis DeBarr, who, like Nimmo, is from Cheyenne.
Manhattan: Re “The page is turned” (editorial, March 10): Public libraries are a bedrock of our democracy sites of opportunity and learning, open to all, that store and share our collective histories, knowledge and creativity. As public institutions, our libraries need champions. No one will be a better champion for the Queens Public Library and its 66 neighborhood branches than Jimmy Van Bramer.
Manhattan: Time can crawl when dealing daily with the often hidden disability of a brain injury (BI). This August marks 25 long years since I became the first survivor, ostensibly so, on reported public record at least, of Con Edison-related negligent “stray” voltage. Mundanely making a call at an unexpectedly short-circuited street-corner payphone site, my brain got horrifically forever-fried.