Since when is nudity a pillar of homosexual tradition?
Rockaway Park: It was a wonderful, sunny day in Rockaway. The waves have been extraordinary and plenty of surfers have been out, together with many younger youngsters who have been browsing the waves beneath their mother and father’ watch.
As it occurs, you begin out browsing on the east facet of the jetty on Beach 149th St. and find yourself on the west facet of the jetty because of the present. This is the place respect for one another is available in. A lady was sunbathing fully nude close to the jetty the place everybody needed to exit the surf and climb again to the jap facet of the jetty to catch extra waves. A mum or dad informed her to place her backside on and her response was, “F— you.” The U.S. Park Police have been referred to as and responded and the officer, utilizing nice diplomacy, requested her to don her backside and she or he complied after a prolonged diatribe regarding her rights.
At this level, a gentleman came visiting and defined to us that this was a homosexual seaside (duh — I lived on the block for 22 years) and tried to clarify this away as a part of a tradition. It’s been a homosexual seaside for a really very long time and this has nothing to do with being straight or homosexual. Let us be clear: It is strictly about being fully bare.
If we’re all alleged to respect one another, doesn’t this apply to everybody, particularly the place younger kids are involved? Let’s all respect and take into account everybody’s rights always and the world might be a greater place. Bill Gallagher
Not so easy
Glen Ridge, N.J.: I’ve one query for self-righteous Voicer Jennifer Berenbaum when, concerning abortion, she acknowledged that “you are careless and get pregnant?” and “killing your babies should never be used as birth control.” So, is getting raped a “careless” motion? Francine Ferrara
Bending the knee?
Brooklyn: What legacy did Mayor Adams search to honor by decreasing our metropolis’s flags for Queen Elizabeth and prominently providing his condolences to the British Consulate? Was it out of respect for the establishment? The one which invaded in 1776, leaving the our bodies of slain patriots to rot the place they fell in Flatbush, Gowanus, Kips Bay, Harlem, Pelham and Washington Heights? Those who starved American prisoners to demise on jail ships within the East River? Or was it out of respect for Elizabeth herself? She who did nothing to cease her army from attempting to brutally pressure her Kenyan, Yemeni and different freedom-seeking topics to stay beneath the crown, or when her authorities drove her Windrush Caribbean topics from their British houses? She who did nothing when her intelligence companies handed out Catholic kill lists to Protestant paramilitaries in Northern Ireland? Who is Adams representing with such royalist and imperialist nonsense? Not most of us in Brooklyn. Dylan Yeats
Royal tribute
Peters Township, Pa.: There are few people who’re universally admired for his or her management on the world stage with grace, poise, dignity and gentility, and who’ve endured numerous challenges and private tragedies. The late Queen Elizabeth was such a uncommon particular person. She served to solidify the treasured and longstanding bond between our nations and if she ever had a political leaning, it was invisible, as she was a buddy to American presidents of each main events. Elizabeth was actually the folks’s queen. She shall be fondly remembered and her reminiscence cherished all the time. Oren Spiegler
Over there
Bayside: Is this the England Daily News? Who cares in regards to the new king of England? If you do, transfer there. We have runaway inflation, crime in all places and shady (out-of-touch) Chuck Schumer is seeking to go a homosexual marriage invoice, whereas the peculiar residents try to not get mugged and afford the excessive costs of meals. Make New York City Great Again. Timothy Collins
Trashy
Brooklyn: The mayor and the sanitation commissioner stated not too long ago that the Sanitation Department had volunteers coming in on Labor Day and the trash can be picked up. Our neighborhood pick-up days are Monday and Thursday. On Friday, we have been nonetheless ready for the volunteers to come back. No pick-up on Monday or Thursday. This mayor is making me want de Bosio was again in workplace. Leighton Perkins
Setting precedent
Kew Gardens: One of probably the most detrimental issues in regards to the former president doing unprecedented issues with out consequence is that he establishes a precedent, which creates a authorized reference. This nation doesn’t want a future plagued with different presidents who defend their actions with, “Donald Trump did it and nothing happened to him.” Glenn Hayes
Hungry for the hoosegow
Howard Beach: If getting indicted and positioned in handcuffs was the “best day in his life” for Steve Bannon, then spending just a few years in jail simply may make him ecstatic. And is there a greater place for his happiness than Rikers Island? When Steve is sentenced, let’s see if he might be singing, “happy days are here again.” Barbara Berg
Gross
St. Albans: Like many others, I’m additionally lamenting the hiatus of two of my favourite comedian strips, “Red & Rover” and “Zits.” When I learn the paper, I attempt to learn the comedian pages first as a result of it’s a obligatory and welcome bracer to all of the insanity contained in the remainder of the paper. The “WuMo” strip of Sept. 8 of this yr, nonetheless, was — and I hope I’m not alone on this — 100% USDA Grade A not humorous. A grown man — a mum or dad, no much less — giving kids pet food within the misguided notion of being a zero-waste household? Really? Children in all probability learn this comedian! This specific strip ought to by no means have been offered for publication to the Daily News, not to mention authorised and printed, and needs to be positioned within the “What the hell were you thinking?” file of the strip’s creators, by no means to be proven once more! Anthony Vasser
Institutional well being
Brooklyn: For the previous few weeks, I’ve been studying in regards to the risk that Maimonides Hospital could also be going beneath. The hospital misplaced a staggering $145 million final yr and has barely sufficient cash to make it by means of one other yr. I keep in mind when the hospital was referred to as Israel Zion. My brother and sister have been born there and my dad acquired the best care from famend coronary heart surgeon Dr. Cunningham. Every member of my household has been handled there up till 5 years in the past, all the time getting nice care. I don’t know if it’s the multimillion-dollar salaries that hospital execs get or soiled politics. The reality is that Maimonides was as soon as an amazing hospital and could possibly be once more. Louie Scarcella
Premium value
Holliswood: I had a pair of tickets to the Twins/Yankees sport that was rained out on Tuesday ($28 every). Because of my schedule, the one sport I’d be capable to attend for the remainder of the season is Thursday, Sept. 22, towards the Red Sox. The Yankees have loads of seats accessible for that sport at $19 and $29. But they gained’t change my tickets (the place I used to be prepared to take a financial loss or pay the $1 further, with the seats being additional out towards the outfield than my $28 seats) as a result of they deem the Red Sox sport a “premium” sport. What type of nonsense is that? And Major League Baseball wonders why they’re shedding followers. Gregory W. Chupa
Deserving workforce
Garwood, N.J.: I hope that Voicers, native information media and the Daily News sports activities division have been watching Thursday evening as New York’s solely resident workforce, the Buffalo Bills, put an absolute whooping on the Super Bowl defending champs. Their quarterback proved he isn’t “a work in progress” as are the 2 different New York prima donna groups. Even after the Giants raided the Bills’ entrance workplace and offensive coordinator, they confirmed why they’re much greater than even-odds favorites to be enjoying on the following Super Bowl Sunday. Maybe now the native information shops will give them greater than a one-minute point out. Maybe now, The News’ sports activities division will give them a couple of paragraph each two weeks. After all, they’ve been within the playoffs three out of the final 4 years. What say the Green and Blue? Go Bills Mafia! John Deichmeister
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