As longtime residents of the Lower East Side, we share your concern about the sale of Rivington House (“How Did a Nursing Home Become a Condo?,” editorial, Aug. 2). We, too, have been asking the mayor to explain how this vital neighborhood resource came to be sold to a luxury condo developer under his watch. Like the editorial board, we have yet to receive a satisfactory response.

If the Lower East Side keeps losing services and homes like Rivington House, the aging and the sick in our community will soon have no option but to leave the neighborhood entirely, and with it the network of trusted friends and neighbors, community gardens and parks that have been built over many decades.

This kind of rupture is a loss to all New Yorkers, rich and poor, young and old. We hope that the mayor will see this and choose to help saveRivington House rather than simply managing the controversy surrounding it.

K. WEBSTER

TESSA HUXLEY

New York

The writers are members of Neighbors to Save Rivington House.