Mourning the Russian spy-whale and more: Letters to the Editor — Sep. 8, 2024

Baby beluga

There is a special place in hell for the person who killed this sweet beluga, Hvaldimir (“Vlad ‘spy’ is fin-ished,” Sept. 5).

Any fool would know this beautiful beluga was not a spy but just an innocent🐼 creature being used in the past by more cowards to “spy.”

It’s a shame his collar was not removed, which would have probably kept🦹𝕴 Hval in less danger.

Hval was not a threat.

Shame on whomever committed this atrocity.

Donna Skjeveland,

Holbrook

Crime statistics

The recent Post article detailing the number of arrests of criminal illegal migrants is staggering (“NYC’s ‘Asylum Seeker’ Crime Wave,” Editorial, Sept. 5).

Per police reports, three out of four people arrested in Midtown areꦏ migrants, and the numbers in some Que🌜ens neighborhoods is 60%.

Ince🐽ntivizing these arrivals with free stuff and “sanctuary city” laws acts as a magnet to draw these bad actors to Gotham.

If you think Vice Presdient Kamala Harris will lift a finger to get the border under control, just ask Laken Riley, Rachel Morin andꦐ Jocelyꦜn Nungaray.

A💧ctually, you can’t: Each of them was allegedly murdered by an illegal migrant, effectively welcomed into this country by Biden and Harris.

Kenneth Fitzgerald,

Hicksville

Flailing tests

I agree with The Post’s “The Regents’ War on Tests,” which takes to task the State Education Department for the delayed release of school tesܫting results (Editor꧒ial, Sept. 1).

Clearly SED seeks to camouflage the further decline of learning throughout this state’s public sc𓂃ho🔥ols.

This is so distressing to both the students𓃲’ parents and to taxpayers.

Even though buo♈yed by recent federal stimulus money, New York City taxpayers, in particular, are paying almost $38,000 per student for lousy resu♊lts.

Citizens of New Yor♉k, both state and city, must ask out loud: For what are we paying these onerous taxes?

Let me tell you.

We are paying for teachers who are accused of misbehavior to sit in “rubber rooms” for years awaiting their disciplinary hearings💙.

And we are paying for allowing seriously disruptive kids to remain in classrooms to inꦗterrupt instruction and learning.

We are living in a state where pedagogy is controlled by ideology and ♍not by common sense.

Stanley M. Rubin,

Queens

Pizza Tetris

I’m a big fan of the city’s new trash cans specifically designed for pizza boxes (“Trash bin a pizza flopping,” Sept. 2).

It opens a world of bespoke waste wonder.

I now refuse to deposit my refuse in anything but a unique rec🐼eptacle.

I want different bins for burrito foil, bagel paper, street meat Styrofoam, plastic sandwich swords, cupcake doilies, beer can bags and, of course, toothpicks with cellophane on the e𓆉nd.

Because our garbage is as unique as we are.

It just wants a place to fit in.

Oliver Mosier,

Brooklyn

Scaffold free

Reading about the removal of a 15-year old scaffold in Manhattan reminded me of an 18-year-old scaffold in my lower Manhattan neighborhood at 129 Fulton St. Despite my having filed numerous complaints through the city’s 311 system, it is still there (“Nary a tear shed,” Aug. 29).

The worst part is that absolutely no work is being done aꦰt the site, yet periodically the Department of Buildings issues work permits to the contractor.

Something is definitely fishy about this site and the rei𒀰ssuance of permits with no inspection of the site.

John Ost,

Manhattan

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