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Manhattan: Re “Fix 421-a to produce more affordable housing and good jobs” (op-ed, March 28): Mayor Adams is right to call for greater investments in affordable housing, but with thousands of families on the brink of homelessness due to the expiration of the state’s eviction moratorium, it’s critically important that New York City and state leaders take action to ensure that families with children can stay in their homes and out of shelters.

Manhattan: Chuck Weinstock is right on target in making light of Gov. Hochul’s non-plan for redoing Penn Station (“The blind men & the white elephant,” op-ed, Feb. 27). Missing is a bigger picture of how the region’s three commuter rail lines could work together to shrink the traffic overload on the region’s congested and polluted highways.

Kew Gardens: “The Sixth of January,” patterned after “Remember, Remember the Fifth of November,” the Guy Fawkes Day rhyme recalling England’s Gunpowder Plot of 1605: As December the Seventh lives forever in infamy, and 9/11 arrests our attention / So never forget the Sixth of January / The Trump MAGA mob’s insurrection. / Remember, remember the prior November / Trump’s defeat sparked joyous celebration / but refusing conceding — he kept bullying, tweeting / and spreading his “voter fraud” contagion. / Each lawsuit he tried to deny votes for Biden / only proved our election�...

Knoxville, Tenn.: This week’s U.S. Senate impeachment trial is capturing the attention of millions of Americans. The graphic video evidence of what transpired in the Capitol Building on Jan. 6 will become seared in our national memory, regardless of whether the final verdict is to acquit or convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection that day.