Thank you for Janet Langhart Cohen’s March 19 op-ed “The worst and best of Boston.’’ I have lived here since 1977 and also have felt that the Boston of today is quite different from the Boston of the 1970s. I feel that the younger generation is more open, more kind, and less bigoted than their parents and grandparents.

When I hear about Boston’s being a racist city, I cringe and wonder if it’s just my imagination that things are better. I know things are not perfect, but Cohen’s observations make me hopeful that indeed we are in a better place than we were.

Suzanne Salamon

Brookline