Laura Levine-Pinedo, founder of 4Bronx Project, has joined up with Latinos Urbanos to install a free community library at P.S. 207 on Godwin Terrace. Levine-Pinedo said she is providing the library with Latinos Urbanos and Dr. Nick Figueroa, who was awarded recognition and an award from superstar hip hop singer Bad Bunny. The community library will be available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. outside the school. Members of 4Bronx Project and Latinos Urbanos cut the ribbon on the library on Feb. 15.
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2/29/24
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While last year’s merger of St. Margaret of Cortona and St. Gabriel schools meant the end of the rivalry on the basketball court, students and family got another treat this year.
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By ALEXANDRIA BROWN
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2/29/24
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As we close out yet another Black History Month, let’s take a moment to celebrate the many contributions African-Americans have made to the country. They’ve done this despite discrimination and oppression — something even the Bronx, in the past, was not immune to.
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2/29/24
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New York City was built on the backs of working-class New Yorkers; people like my mother, Dorothy Mae Adams, a single mother who worked multiple jobs to support my five siblings and myself. She sacrificed everything for us, and I know that there are thousands of New Yorkers doing the same today in our city for their families.
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By ERIC ADAMS
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2/29/24
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To the Editor:
Professor Frederick Schweitzer asked, in his letter to the editor (Feb. 15), “What will become of Manhattan College?”
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2/29/24
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To the Editor:
There are two Democratic primary elections this coming June: one is the one everyone is aware of (Presidential) and the other is one the party bosses don’t want the rest of us to know about: For district leaders and state committee man/woman.
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2/29/24
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(Re: “End genocide, war crimes in Palestine,” Feb. 15.)
To The Editor:
Mr. Stuart Chen Hayes has written a remarkable diatribe about Israel in last week’s issue of The Riverdale Press.
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2/29/24
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To the Editor:
I would like to take issue with two letters published in your Jan. 18 issue by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz (and Jarret Berg) and Miriam Levine Helbok.
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2/29/24
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To the Editor:
I recently turned 92 years old and I don’t remember ever having gone hungry. I expect many of you have had the same experience.
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2/29/24
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It has been two years since I introduced myself to The Riverdale Press readership (“New editor is happy to join neighborhood,” March 17, 2022). A lot has happened in greater Riverdale since then.
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By GARY LARKIN
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2/29/24
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