To the Editor:

I would like to respond to a letter from Laura Pawlicky last week (“No ‘Gentleman'”).

Dear Laura: I was dismayed and very saddened to read about your unfortunate encounter in Surf City at the bay end of 11th Street on July 31. I have been living on the corner of Barnegat Avenue and 11th Street every summer for the last 60 years and I want you to know that the rude and insensitive behavior of the “old man,” as you described him, is not at all representative of my neighbors.

August 19, 2015