Lay off the chief
There isn’t a mum or dad alive who hasn’t misplaced their mood with an unruly baby, a lot in the way in which that North Babylon fireplace chief Peter Alt did the opposite day (“Hearth chief curses out child, 10,” Aug. 7).
This was not the primary time firefighters had been known as to rein on this woman.
It’s unhappy that her dad and mom have needed to make these calls, and I can solely think about Alt’s degree of frustration.
I’m certain he regrets shedding his composure, however skewering a public servant for being human just isn’t at all times the answer.
Peter W. Kelly
Hazlet, NJ
Drag queen Clinton
Will one in every of your gifted writers please interview an artwork critic as to which work are price extra: any Hunter Biden masterpiece or the one present in Jeffrey Epstein’s assortment with Invoice Clinton in drag (“Invoice’s good friend the intercourse fiend,” Aug. 7)?
And please inform us what artist produced the Clinton one.
Paul O’Keefe
Union Metropolis, NJ
Battery betrayal
Conceived beneath Gov. Nelson Rockefeller within the late Sixties, Battery Park Metropolis changed a mile of deserted, rotting piers between Battery Park and Canal Avenue with new housing, monetary establishments and civic amenities, together with a mile-long pedestrian stroll alongside the Hudson River and decrease Manhattan harbor (“Redo assault on Battery,” Steve Cuozzo, Aug. 7).
To learn that Wagner Park, some of the scenic and utilized components of that deliberate neighborhood, has been disrupted by the Battery Park Metropolis Authority is most upsetting and disheartening. Can’t this authority go away well-enough alone?
Avrum Hyman
Riverdale
First trans shelter
Regardless of criticism, there’s a respectable want for a devoted transgender shelter in New York Metropolis as a result of transgender people face excessive dangers of discrimination and violence in conventional shelters (“Metropolis opens 1st trans shelter,” Aug. 7).
New York Metropolis’s new facility provides tailor-made help to assist stabilize their lives and transfer in direction of everlasting housing.
Kudos to town for offering wanted companies for this susceptible inhabitants.
Terry Hansen
Milwaukee, Wisc.
EPA’s errors
Choose Glock argues that the Clear Air Act shouldn’t be used to deal with greenhouse gasoline air pollution as a result of no person was conscious of local weather change in 1970 (“Don’s CO2 Rollback Restores EPA Sanity,” PostOpinion, Aug. 7).
This can be a blatant misreading of the regulation. The Clear Air Act has a broad definition of “air pollutant.” Greenhouse gases are explicitly known as out as air pollution within the laws as amended by Congress in 2022.
The regulation additional states that the EPA should regulate pollution “which can fairly be anticipated to hazard public well being or welfare.”
There’s a near-universal consensus that greenhouse gasoline emissions endanger public well being.
Simply open your eyes and take a look at the warmth waves, wildfires, droughts and killer floods we’ve seen in 2025.
The EPA’s proposed repeal of the greenhouse gasoline laws is a reckless act by an administration on a campaign to unwind essential environmental protections.
Frederick Hewett
Cambridge Mass.
‘Puberty Palace’
My suggestion for DC’s juvenile delinquents is to spherical them up and begin a particular facility known as “Puberty Palace” (“Capital’s minor risk,” Aug. 7).
They’ll have a singular place of their very own, simply not on our streets!
Mara Cutro
Tenafly, NJ
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