MARCH 19 - mARCH 25, 2015 • TIMES 13 • A Look Back • street talk Who do you think has the better chance of making the playoffs this season: the Mets or the Yankees? BY ROSS BELSKY “The Mets are younger and more hungry. Plus, they have six starting pitchers.” Anthony Hassan “The Yankees, just based on their track record.” Brooke Astaria “I’m generally indifferent. I don’t see the point, philosophically, of baseball nowadays. Chess is my sport.” Emilio Velez “The Yankees. They will always be my team.” Dominick Papasio “The Yankees. They are the best team in baseball history and always overcome the odds.” William Landon “The Mets. I’m rooting for Michael Cuddyer to make an impact.” Brian Cornil “The Mets, as long as Matt Harvey comes back healthy.” Danielle Cazilas “Both teams are boring. The Phillies are going to win it all.” Luciano Lamour letters tion, share what you learned with others. Is there a level playing field and equal treatment of the public schools and their charter school co-inhabitants? Or are the charter school occupiers showered with advantages and largesse and the public school children valued as second-class squatters? The truth should set us free. Of charters. Ron Isaac, Fresh Meadows Spring cleaning needed on local streets Now that we are leaving winter and the snows are melting, what is revealed is not only the earth waiting to burst forth with the promise of spring, but a whole lot of litter. As I walk through the neighborhood, I am astonished to see so much rotting paper, plastic bottles, cigarette butts, discarded wrappers and other debris that had been hidden by the snow and ice. The landscape looks sad and devalues our homes. If we all pitch in and clean up just a little bit around our homes, yards and even our blocks, our communities will look beautiful once again. It takes very little time to set things straight. Toss that litter into the garbage or recycling containers and get the benefit of a little exercise at the same time. We all live in a community. Don’t trash it or let it be trashed. Henry Euler, Bayside needs Maspeth Town Hall, shown here in the late 1980s, serves as a hub for activities around the community, from civic meetings to educational programs. Decades earlier, it had an entirely different purpose, as it was the former headquarters of the 112th Precinct.
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