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Dear Editor:

 Around a month ago, Goldy Kranz wrote an article where she stated that houses in Kew Gardens Hills have gotten too expensive for her and other young families to afford. As a result, she’s moving to another community, and many other young people are too.

Dear Readers,

Over the years, we have published a number of letters in this paper regarding changes in the demographics of Kew Gardens Hills and its surroundings. Two weeks ago, we published a letter on this topic that received tremendous backlash. Many from both Bukharian and Ashkenazi backgrounds alike were offended by its contents. We were mistaken to publish that letter, and I apologize for that oversight.

Dear Editor:

I have been following the reaction to Anonymous’ letter with amusement. It seems to me that everyone read into it whatever they wanted to. There is no need to assume animosity just because that person pointed out the obvious reality that the neighborhood is changing.

Dear Editor:

I was appalled to read the letter from Anonymous who opines that people are moving out of the community because “Bukharians are moving in by the droves.” How tragic that she spews such sin’as chinam right before the Three Weeks.

Dear Editor:

As someone who was born and raised in Kew Gardens Hills in the early 1960s (and became a bar mitzvah at the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills in 1975), I have been following the Letters to the Editor about the composition of the neighborhood with interest. When I was growing up, the area was not predominantly Orthodox or even overwhelmingly Jewish. Why is it then that some of your readers act like they have been there since time immemorial?

Dear Editor:

To my dear Jewish brothers and sisters, Kew Gardens Hills residents: