LETTERS

Editors:

I wish to compliment you on the Summer, 1961 issue of DISSENT. It is a constructive, revealing, often startling portrait of a city written by men and women who care about both its present and future. I was especially impressed by “Harlem, My Harlem” by Claude Brown. “The Village Beat Scene” by Ned Polsky, and Daniel M. Friedenberg’s excellent “Real Estate Confidential.”

My one criticism of “New York, N. Y.” is that...