To the editor:
The very moving letter you published by Shelly Mossey about Olga Evgleska Cook’s death with its description of the chaos in parts of our BPC neighborhood re-emphasized my comment yesterday, “Sometimes I wish that our level of civilization in this neighborhood were on a par with our landscaping.”
For all the upscale glitz, some very basic quality-of-life measures are missing in this neighborhood, and more attention needs to be directed to these serious failures.
Someone should not have to die before we momentarily reflect on what, besides construction, is happening around us. At some levels of our communal behavior, we live in an urban jungle and nobody cares. We represent a microcosm of a society that will be destroyed by its own aimless dismissal of civilized norms of behavior.
Dolores L. Dagostino