JFK's gymnasts are city champs

By Meaghan Varieur

Five teams competed in the Public School Athletic League’s Boys’ Gymnastics City Championships, but when the John F. Kennedy High School Knights took...

Riverdale residents push for safer Broadway after pedestrian death

By Kate Pastor

Residents who have long watched car crashes and near misses from their windows will not sit idly by waiting for the next accident...

Reliving the heady days of brewing in the Bronx

By Kate Pastor

Brewing beer in the Bronx is as old as Jonas Bronck.

In fact, the first evidence of a Bronx brewery was discovered in the...

Stimulus? Not for us, say workers without jobs

By Aliza Appelbaum

There’s little relief in sight for jobless Riverdale and Kingsbridge residents waiting for federal stimulus funds to trickle down to the Bronx. That...

Urban Ellis: Battling to give kids the chances he never had

A Press profile

By Maria Clark
mclark@riverdalepress.com

Two years ago, Urban Ellis trekked up the steep hill from Broadway to Manhattan College on a mission: to start...

Oh, what a felling

THE STORM on Feb. 25 uprooted a massive oak, which came crashing down across Van Cortlandt Park South near Gouverneur Avenue in Van Cortlandt Village,...

State approves federal funds for Marble Hill

By Maria Clark

The N.Y. state Senate approved a program on Feb. 24 that would provide federal funding for 21 city- and state-run housing developments in...

Leaders ready to help Stella D'oro tenants

By Kate Pastor

Community leaders are working to ensure that whatever business inhabits the now-shuttered Stella D’oro factory on West 237th Street gives Kingsbridge an economic...

Board puts up 'don't walk' sign

By Aliza Appelbaum

People won’t be promenading down the middle of Johnson Avenue on sunny Sunday afternoons this summer after all.

A plan that would have blocked...

Jerome Park Reservoir remains off limits to public

By Aliza Appelbaum

It looks like it may be a while before the community has access to the Jerome Park Reservoir, though the new commissioner of...

Volunteers needed to help teach English

The Sisters of Charity is seeking volunteers for “Project L.I.G.H.T”, its English as a Second Language (ESL) program that runs on Monday and Wednesday from...

CB 8 community service nominations now open

Community Board 8 is now accepting nominations for its 2010 Community Service Awards.

The only criteria for consideration is that “the nominee has acted on a...

Camps 2010: With a little help, an old-style camp gets a new outlook

By Jason Fields

One local summer camp is getting a little less campy.

Kehilla, a day camp run by the Riverdale YM-YWHA, has always been held in...

Camps 2010: Co-owner and instructor

CO-OWNER AND INSTRUCTOR Ernies Alemais, top photo, helps teach proper batting stance to an attendee of the Uptown Sports Complex’s midwinter gymnastics and baseball camp...

Public meetings

• Community Board 8’s Law, Rules and Ethics Committee will meet Tuesday, March 9, at Manhattanville Health Care Center, 311 W. 231st St, at...

Corrections and clarifications

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