1993
Troubled schools
There was little, it seemed, to be celebrated in the city or the Riverdale/Kingsbridge area in 1993. Classrooms remained crowded and crime grew. Children brought guns …
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1994
Schools in chaos
Schools remained on top of the Riverdale/Kingsbridge agenda in 1994, with violence and overcrowding matched only by the misbehavior of the school board. Guns were …
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1995
Failing school
Less than 25 percent of JFK Kennedy seniors graduated in June
A controversial proposal to cut School District 10 in two was dropped at the beginning of the year, …
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1996
Aha!
Parking tickets, development and the Hudson River Greenway dominated the front pages of The Riverdale Press in 1996.
A source within the 50th Precinct gave the paper …
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Home field advantage couldn’t help the struggling Lions as Riverdale defeated Horace Mann 49-16 on a sunny Clark Field on Saturday afternoon.
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1997
Reactions
A desire for an additional local high school finally became a proposal to expand MS 141 up to twelfth grade. Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz immediately backed the proposal, but …
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1998
Just rewards
In some ways, 1998 brought a sea change to the Riverdale/ Kingsbridge area. Crime, which had dominated headlines in previous years and made the relative safety and …
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1999
Y2K
Crime continued to drop in the area, with the year’s first murder within the 50th Precinct’s boundaries not taking place until Dec. 16. The police shooting of Amadou …
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The strike at the Stella D'oro bakery on Broadway at West 238th Street is now in its fourth month and no doubt picketers, from left to right, Ana Lukaj, a 35-year employee from Yonkers, Damiana …
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More than 100 people gathered in the lobby of the Conservative Synagogue
Adath Israel of Riverdale on Sunday, April 19, to pay tribute to Edith Sobel, a
founder of the Riverdale Jewish …
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