We have sent dozens of letters to The Times, and have frankly given up on the process. The Times will not print letters in support of the stadium, with rare exceptions, and those exceptions are so truncated as to be rendered meaningless. We get the same sort of letters as The Times, pro and con, jus not as many, obviously. Right now there's a stack of email that needs reading. We'll get to it, hopefully before construction begins.

 

To the Editor:

Re "The Billionaires' Club," by Bob Herbert (column, April 4), which criticized the West Side stadium deal:

Aside from the fact that when construction begins on the stadium I will probably never visit my family in New York City (I live in New Jersey), it is such a slap in the face to people in New York, who have had to endure an antiquated subway system, firehouse closings, inferior schools and miserable roads.

I am in awe at the brazen disregard for community and quality of life.

Nancy Gerson
Bergenfield, N.J., April 4, 2005

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To the Editor:

As I sit here on West 34th Street and look out the window, I can't help but think of the mess that will be the Jets stadium.

Right now, the streets are packed with the cars of visitors to the Javits Center. There is wall-to-wall gridlock. Emergency vehicles like fire and ambulance can't get through. The No. 11 bus is paralyzed. There is not a traffic agent in sight.

Add to this mix the usual Lincoln Tunnel traffic, and you get an idea of the irresponsibility of the advocates for the stadium.

Jeffrey Kassel
New York, April 4, 2005