To the editor: I mourn the passing of 102-year-old Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffe.  more

The call of a lifetime is well worth the wait. If you are a baseball player with big dreams, there is universal agreement about what said phone call would be. Tom Cosgrove waited seven years for that call. more

Manhattan men’s lacrosse secured a share of the 2023 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season championship with a 6-2 win over Wagner in Staten Island on Saturday night in the regular season finale. more

Stephen Budihas has retired from the Association of Riverdale Cooperatives & Condominiums. more

Throughout the week, there were artists and music doing their thing, including a mariachi band that walked from restaurant to restaurant as part of Riverdale Restaurant Week April 15-22. or the Friendly Fridge BX, DineOut Riverdale made 231 sandwiches, rice and beans meals and donated fresh produce, water bottles and juice. more

SAR High School and SAR Academy celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut on April 25. The high school started with a schoolwide tefilla — a prayer — memorable and exciting festivity along with scholarly lessons dedicated to find peaceful solutions in any situation and meaning in Israel’s founding father. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion was the known national founder of the state of Israel. And the first prime minister. more

After a multi-year search, the Riverdale Presbyterian Church has announced the installation of a new pastor. more

A climate change bill that aims to require all transit agencies across the state to purchase only zero emission buses starting in 2029 has advanced to the state Senate transportation committee. It is sponsored by Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz of greater Riverdale and state Sen. Timothy Kennedy of Buffalo. more

A smoke shop at 206 W. 231st St., was raided by the New York City’s Sheriff Department on Monday, April 17 at approximately 2 p.m. Officers were seen on video taking large plastic bags of merchandise out of 206 Candy & Convenience Inc. and placed in a black van. more