Letters

Rebuts Hillary Charge
To The Editor:

Shame on you, R. Spener of Forest Hills. Were you there when Hillary Clinton made that remark in 1975?

I think not.

M. Carr

Astoria

Lower BAS More

To The Editor:

Representative Nita Lowey is to be commended for vigorously supporting the enactment of a Congressional bill setting the national standard for a drunk driving conviction at .08 blood alcohol concentration. However it would be far better were the blood alcohol standard set at .05. There are enough studies indicating that a driver with an alcohol concentration of .05 is drunk and sufficiently impaired to safely operate a motor vehicle.

Sincerely,

Robert Fellows

Jackson Heights

Beauty Begins At Home

To The Editor:

It’s very apparent that the "Age of Decency" is definitely over... at least in these parts of New York City.

It (this conduct) has become increasingly "in" for girls/women to perform their toilet practices on the subway (it would be too bumpy to do so on a bus). I’ve seen all too many of my sex putting on their mascara (with very delicate attention), applying their eye-liner and then summing up with the application of lipstick—all done while riding the subway to work or wherever!

I, for one, find it disgusting! Don’t these girls have any pride, or could it be a lure for other purposes?

This kind of grooming was always and should always be done in the privacy of the bathroom or your boudoir! How come you think it’s okay to do same on the subway? Thank God, men need water in order to shave, else, it might come to the point where men finish their toiletry of shaving while enroute to work!

Come on now, let’s clean up our act—but in private!

Thank you.

Very truly yours,

June Campise

Long Island City

Diversions Are Disturbing

A copy of the following letter was received by the Gazette.

Lawrence Reuter

New York City Transit

370 Jay Street

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Re: General orders

Dear Mr. Reuter:

It is bad enough when general orders, more commonly referred to as reroutes or diversions, adversely affect subway riders, making their trips longer and less convenient, but having inadequate information about them is even worse.

On the Queens Boulevard IND line, in the past year, there have a number of instances where diversion notices were not posted, posted late or unclear. In addition, there have been cases where diversions were cancelled at the last minute and the signs left up unchanged.

In the most recent incident on Monday, Aug.7th, no signs were posted in advance at the Northern Boulevard station (and probably other stations) that there would be no Manhattan-bound service after 10 p.m. The railroad clerks, apparently, were not told in advance, either. Passengers were waiting on the platform for a half hour for trains that weren’t coming until someone finally notified the railroad clerk of the "secret" diversion and that the riders should go to the Queens-bound platform across the street. Some riders had to take taxis so they wouldn’t be late for work. (In addition, when we checked further, we found that the TA website didn’t have this reroute listed under ‘R," which is still running at that hour, only under ‘E’ and ‘F,’ which normally serve the station only later on in the evening.)

You have to do something about this information sloppiness. At 10 p.m., people on the night shift are heading to work and were adversely affected by [the Aug. 7th] half-hour kidnapping.

Sincerely,

Dr. Stephen Dobrow

President

Our Apologies

Re: Your article: "Queens Architects Call For Convention Center" Queens Gazette, P.7, Aug. 16, 2000.

To The Editor:

The referenced article erroneously describes our project for Fresh Direct in Long Island City as a conversion of the Case Paper building into a "sewer processing plant."

This description does monstrous injustice to the character and reputation of our client, Fresh Direct, which is on the cutting edge of the high-tech food processing and distribution industry.

We expect that the Queens Gazette will honor its journalistic obligation to set the matter straight publicly, and print an apology as well as an appropriate and prominent correction.

Thank you.

Very truly yours,

Raymond Irrera + Associates Architects, P.C.

Raymond J. Irrera, AIA

Editors Note: We regret the error. We would welcome any information Irrera or Fresh Direct might choose to provide us so that we could inform our readers about this project.