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"We fervently wish that more readers would comment."

“Maybe there could be a dialogue – if you could understand that there’s a reason for someone else’s opinion.”

In the first line of fire, he filters out nasty, insulting, racist, or long-winded comments sent to the Rag.

Some rare unanimity -- and an idea for channeling your outrage.

By noon on Friday morning, there were 40 new comments on the arrest of a 13-year-old boy in

Ideas spring forth like spring blossoms in the West Side Rag comments. Some have the potential to fully flower, others look more like weeds.

There are 2 UWS’s. The “Original” one with a mix of races and cultures, and economic diversity, and the “New” one where the UWS was

”A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin,” wrote a WSR commenter this week.  We know a few

This week, we're publishing very short comments, in celebration of brevity.

A WSR commenter asked, “Who screens these comments? What criteria do you have given some of the incendiary nonsense that gets

Thank you for sharing your journey back. I’m so glad what made you love NYC is alive and well.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held up to a standard like NO other parade in the world. Do it right, or don’t do it at all!

You think that block is bad now? You should have been around in the 60’s. Superman and Batman would not have ventured down

I pay a ridiculous cost to live on the UWS (barely can afford) and these beautiful hotels/locations are giving rooms away. Doesn’t

Why do people from NJ and CT pay what they want, even nothing? If I go to the beach in NJ or CT, I have to pay for a beach pass.

Are UWS residents really as right wing as the comments imply? I know very few people like this in real life. There are some but

I am so going to miss that restaurant. Home to my pork ribs in black bean sauce and fried plantains.

Here is a sampling of memorable comments on this past week’s stories.

A noted psychoanalyst said, “There are two kinds of people in the world: nice nuts and nasty nuts.” Both varieties make their appearance — or try to

At the risk of being downright schmaltzy, you are why we write these stories. We want you to feel informed about and connected to the community we share.