This week we asked readers their New Year’s resolutions and hopes and wishes for 2017.

I’m trying to quit smoking and make more money, if I can find a better job. I signed up with the Emergency Response Team for the snow removal with the Department of Sanitation and that pays $18 an hour. I hope that the situation with global warming gets resolved, because this weather we’ve been having is crazy. It’s cold when it should be hot and hot when it should be cold.
George Morales
Morris Park

My hopes for 2017 is to do better than I did in 2016. I’m going to start a new job, so career-wise I’m going to be doing much better. Hopefully the country moves forward and not backwards and [president-elect] Donald Trump proves he’s not the big mess-up that people think he is, so I’m optimistic.
Joseph Gardella
Bedford Park

 

My New Year’s resolution is to eat better, the same resolution I make every year. And for 2017, I just hope that we can come together as a nation because we are deeply divided and we need to come together.
Linda Eversley
Bedford Park

 

[M]y New Year’s resolution is to go to the gym more and read all of the Harry Potter books. My hopes for 2017 include finishing my degree at Bronx Community College and start a career in nursing.
Carmen Sanchez
Bedford Park

 

 

This year my gifts are being focused on items that will bring equity to my dear ones, such as exercise equipment, electronic gadgets and artwork. To all my friends in northern Manhattan and the Bronx, I wish that we all stay strong mentally as well as physically in 2017. Since we are going into a very difficult phase in our American history, God bless America!
Rafael Gomez Luna
Washington Heights