12 times • AUGUST 27, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.timesnewsweekly.com 20 THE COURIER SUN • AUGUST 27, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com editorial sun WWW.COURIERSUN.COM VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. SCHNEPS BOB BRENNAN ROBERT POZARYCKI AMY AMATO-SANCHEZ NIRMAL SINGH GRAZIELLA ZERILLI STEPHEN REINA RON TORINA, JENNIFER DECIO, CHERYL GALLAGHER CRISTABELLE TUMOLA, ANGY ALTAMIRANO, KATRINA MEDOFF ANTHONY GIUDICE, ANGELA MATUA, ALINA SURIEL CLIFF KASDEN, SAMANTHA SOHMER, ELIZABETH ALONI CRISTABELLE TUMOLA DEMETRA PLAGAKIS WARREN SUSSMAN CELESTE ALAMIN MARIA VALENCIA VICTORIA SCHNEPS-YUNIS JOSHUA A. 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The advertiser agrees to hold THE COURIER SUN and its employees harmless from all cost, expenses, liabilities, and damages resulting from or caused by the publication or recording placed by the advertiser or any reply to any such advertisement. street talk BY ALEXIS CORBIN What do you think of the proposal to eliminate Times Square’s pedestrian plaza as a solution for topless women and costumed characters? SNAPS QUEENS Photo from last week’s Taiwan: A World of Orchids show at Queens Botanical Garden via Instagram/ @nycoffeecup Send us your photos of Queens and you could see them online or in our paper! Submit them to us via our Instagram @ queenscourier, Facebook page, tweeting @ queenscourier or by emailing editorial@queenscourier. com (subject: Queens Snaps). “Women shouldn’t be walking around topless on a regular day basis. It is not okay. ” Anthony Giammarinaro “I have a 5-year-old daughter who asks me why the women aren’t wearing clothing. Women shouldn’t be walking around topless in a public area where children can see. It is extremely inappropriate.” Kathy Serrano “I think it’s unnecessary to eliminate the entire pedestrian plaza. I’m sure there is a better solution to resolve the issue.” Victoria Addison- Wistell “If you take away the pedestrian plaza, you are taking away the experience of New York! Men walk around topless all the time, so why shouldn’t women fi ght for the same right?” Maya Haughton “I agree with eliminating the pedestrian plaza because it brings the wrong kind of attention to New York. It is inappropriate and unnerving, especially for families with young children.” Denise Smith “It’s not traditional and very inappropriate to have women walking around the street like that. The pedestrian plaza should be banned.” Jeff Wang “I don’t believe this will solve the problem. Maybe a new law should be implemented to help solve the problem so more parents can feel comfortable bringing their children to Times Square.” Robin Mackey “I don’t think it will solve the problem. Women should find other things to do than put their bodies on display.” Nancy Cutillo Munimeter woes need a fi x The city needs to clean up its act with respect to the way tickets are issued for munimeter parking. With a single munimeter on most regular length blocks, motorists must leave their cars – unless they happen to be parked next to the munimeter – to pay for time. However, that leaves open the possibility of an all-toofamiliar scenario: while the unlucky motorist is at the munimeter, or walking to or from it, a far-too-eager traffi c agent is busy writing a violation. It’s hard to imagine the city upholding a ticket written in such a circumstance. But, traffi c agents must do their due diligence to prevent a motorist who is following the law from potentially being penalized, and certainly inconvenienced. A simple glance down the block to the munimeter would help a traffi c agent determine if, perhaps, the driver is paying for time, waiting for his or her turn, or walking to or from his or her vehicle. Contacted for an explanation of protocols that traffi c agents are trained in, the NYPD’s press offi ce responded only, “Any individual that is issued a summons is afforded the opportunity to plead not guilty and offer evidence in support of this plea at a court hearing.” Frankly, that’s not good enough. There is currently a grace period on the books that gives motorists fi ve minutes to get back to their cars after a receipt expires; beyond requiring that traffi c agents do a visual check before writing a violation, the city must take the burden off the motorist who is at the munimeter when the ticket is being written. The city also needs to make it easier for someone who has received such a ticket to fi ght it. It takes a week before one can make a defense online; however, pleading guilty is far simpler – the city is ready to take your money even before the ticket is in the system. Meters are meant to increase the availability of spots, not serve as a source of revenue for the city. It’s time City Hall started acting that way. Spend some US Open dollars in Queens Between this Saturday’s Arthur Ashe Kids Day and the fi nals of the men’s bracket on Sept. 13, thousands of tennis fans will converge on the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows Corona Park over the next two weeks to take in the U.S. Open. The annual tournament is an economic boon to the city, but the sad reality is that most people who come to the tennis center via the 7 line or the Long Island Rail Road don’t stick around Queens for very long when the matches are over. As NYC & Company, the city’s offi cial tourism outfi t, touted in a press release last week, there’s plenty of things for tennis fans to do outside of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The small businesses in Queens could use a taste of the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue that the U.S. Open brings to the city. Fine art, entertainment and cuisine await visitors who stop in neighborhoods along the 7 line from Long Island City to Flushing; all they need to do is pay an extra $2.75 to enjoy it. 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