Good riddance to bad rubbish

To the editor:

(re: “New York City says ‘yes’ to housing in God’s backyard,” April 11)

Mayor Eric Adams gets the respect he avoids giving his constituents. This newspaper is a fine example. The Riverdale Press publishes letters from him, no questions asked.

That’s the way things work.

Now please, let the mayor see this letter by publishing it. Why, do I ask? Because of the abusive new directive this petty bureaucrat has instituted, requiring any contact with his administration to be predicated on the requisite filling out of a seven-page Google Doc. And then these clowns will determine if it meets their subjective criteria for responding.

This chutzpah, from an elected official?

What a petty picayune little person this mayor is: the City Council, looking out for its constituents, passed a law over his veto, demanding cops fill out forms detailing their interactions with the public.

Why, you may ask, did the council do this? Likely because if anyone reading this letter has had interaction with the New York Police Department, they’d reply: I want to be treated with respect, and not judged guilty by the police I interact with.

Which is what the NYPD does regularly. To any and all of us.

We put up with a lot to live here. We don’t need to be assumed guilty by a local cop, backing off from those hired to protect us, afraid of them.

The mayor’s response is this petty tit-for-tat, a move typically made by tyrants.

He’s no tyrant. He’s a clown defending and running interference for his fellow cops, many of whom do not even live in New York City (the state law says they only must live in New York state).

Obviously, what they think is far more important than what we, people who live and vote here, think.

Can he be recalled? Or, perhaps, like many in our fair city say: “Go home, Eric Adams. Your residence in Fort Lee, New Jersey is calling you.”

Resign. You are obviously a cop first, New Jersey resident second, and mayor of your constituents last. Your dumb move is the work of incompetents hiding behind offensive bureaucratic nonsense.

If you should have the chutzpah to run for re-election, with ranked-choice voting, I’d be surprised if you finished last. If the local political machines get behind you, then they are just as guilty of perpetrating this offensive, likely unconstitutional nonsense — and will be sued along with you.

As we are fond of saying: “Get outta here already.” The sooner the better. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Adam Stoler