Opinion

Putting NYU’s plans in park

The Issue: Residents of Greenwich Village who oppose the expansion of NYU on city park land.

***

The community’s opposition to NYU is not about “making it as difficult as possible for anything around them to change,” (“Nice Park If You Can Get It,” Editorial, Feb. 28).

We who have lived here for many years did not make our neighborhood into an upscale one. We have been fighting for years to stop changes that are destroying our small businesses and displacing longtime residents.

What is upscale when LaGuardia Place businesses are gone and too many Bleecker Street stores are empty?

The fight is about who decides what is good for a community: NYU? The City Council? Councilmember Margaret Chin?

Our votes are our voices, and we expect our elected officials to hear them. Please stop portraying us as selfish, small-minded and without vision.

Where is it written that change means taking away the rights of communities to decide what is good for them?

Judith Chazen Walsh

Manhattan

Since when does The Post have a problem with somebody making a profit selling a home? Republicans sell homes, too.

Since when is it evil to like park space? I think Republicans use parks, too.

I live in The Village, and I don’t like the expansion because we will lose the affordable Morton Williams supermarket on Bleeker Street.

Does that make me evil, too ?Rocco Pellone

Manhattan