Letters to the Editor
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‘A Parisian Streetscape in Greenwich Village’
May I belatedly add another great artist’s name to the article by Gary Shapiro in the Sun [“A Parisian Streetscape in Greenwich Village,” October 27, 2006]? That of my father, Paul Resika, who lived and worked in the building whose back entrance is pictured in the article by Gary Shapiro.
The picture brought back good and tragic memories of 3 Washington Square North, where I lived until a fire burned it down, destroying half of the artist’s work up to this point (around 1970). New York University took the building over after its renovation, and many displaced artists were moved to Westbeth apartments in the village.
NATHAN RESIKA
New York, N.Y.
‘”Biological Insurance Policies” Via the Umbilical Cord’
As one of the first successful adult cord blood transplant recipients, I was disappointed with Ms. Birkner’s October 30 article about cord blood [New York, “‘Biological Insurance Policies’ Via the Umbilical Cord,” October 30, 2006]. The decision parents are being pressured to make about speculative private cord blood storage is a complicated one —much more so than parents are being led to believe. Parents would have been better served with strong advice to read the fine print and do their homework. Even more disappointing for me personally, however, was the fact that the story overlooked the best part — how cord blood continues to bring new hope as a viable alternative to bone marrow for patients in desperate need of a stem cell transplant. This non controversial stem cell application currently providing real cures for patients is the point that was missing from the article. As a patient cured of leukemia in 1997 only because of a publicly donated cord blood unit, I was lucky. If more new moms decide publicly to bank cord blood, patients will no longer have to rely on luck to find their stem cell match for transplant.
STEPHEN SPRAGUE
Staten Island, N.Y.
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