Monday, August 15, 2005
NYC Nice
This letter to the editor was taken from today's Newsday New York:
Acts of kindness make city shine
One may not expect it, but there is great kindness in New Yorkers. Recently, on the No. 6 subway platform, a flying bug landed on me. When I went to brush it off, I knocked off my glasses, which went flying off somewhere onto the subway tracks. I am completely blind without my glasses.
Four different New Yorkers helped me through my ordeal in trying to locate and retrieve my glasses.
From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank them sincerely. To the people who located my glasses on the tracks, the people who led me up the stairs to find a transit worker and to the lady who offered me her iced tea and helped get me a cab home, I would like to cheer, "Thank you!"
Although this letter is intended to thank them, I hope that it also helps to inform other readers that, even though this city seems to be full of uncaring strangers, there really are nice people in New York. Their actions have helped to restore my faith in humanity, which sometimes can get lost in this blur of people (pun intended). It is folks like these whose unexpected kindness, graciousness and caring make this city a better place. These people, although quiet and unassuming, are the true heroes of our society and deserve to be recognized.
Carol Duplessie
Woodside
more at www.nynewsday.com
Acts of kindness make city shine
One may not expect it, but there is great kindness in New Yorkers. Recently, on the No. 6 subway platform, a flying bug landed on me. When I went to brush it off, I knocked off my glasses, which went flying off somewhere onto the subway tracks. I am completely blind without my glasses.
Four different New Yorkers helped me through my ordeal in trying to locate and retrieve my glasses.
From the bottom of my heart, I would like to thank them sincerely. To the people who located my glasses on the tracks, the people who led me up the stairs to find a transit worker and to the lady who offered me her iced tea and helped get me a cab home, I would like to cheer, "Thank you!"
Although this letter is intended to thank them, I hope that it also helps to inform other readers that, even though this city seems to be full of uncaring strangers, there really are nice people in New York. Their actions have helped to restore my faith in humanity, which sometimes can get lost in this blur of people (pun intended). It is folks like these whose unexpected kindness, graciousness and caring make this city a better place. These people, although quiet and unassuming, are the true heroes of our society and deserve to be recognized.
Carol Duplessie
Woodside
more at www.nynewsday.com
