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Plainview, L.I.: Congestion pricing is just another money grab from many residents who will not benefit. The government has no idea of the repercussions from congestion pricing. Your neighboring residents will abandon the idea of coming into Manhattan and spending money. Your restaurants, shops and theaters will definitely suffer. Your local people pay a fortune to have a car in New York, pay a toll to cross the East River to enter Manhattan, pay for parking ($25-plus) and next April will need to pay an additional $9-$23.

Forked River, N.J.: Today’s world has many stories of cruelty and suffering, but the story about those dogs who are being saved by the good people of No Dogs Left Behind is a ray of hope (“Dogs won’t be dinner,” March 24).

Danvers, Mass.: Jesus has taken some bad press and is in need of a branding makeover. Thus, we have all been subjected to the “He Gets Us” marketing campaign. But the evangelicals behind it do not seem to understand the most basic elements of getting Jesus.

Manhattan: I knew Irene Cara back in the 1970s! I tracked her down after her agent, Selma Rubin, told me she was giving a talk to a group of students at the New York Public Library on W. 52nd St. She was quiet and gracious and said yes when I asked her to perform a benefit concert for the famous Riverside Theatre Workshop, which started at The Riverside Church.

New Hyde Park, L.I.: What is it with these New York Democrat governors who, with their audacious priggishness, deem the state their fiefdom and themselves their kingdom’s imperial majesties? Erstwhile disgraced caliph Andrew Cuomo had the unmitigated gall to say that all of us who believe in the sanctity of life “have no place in the state of New York because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”