Labor Day weekend Pat LaFrieda received a call from his 18-year-old son saying there was a motion light on in the garage of their Scenic Place home. He told his son to get back in his truck as he opened up security footage on his phone. What LaFreida saw horrified him and he told his son to get out of there as he called the police. more

Simchat Torah should have been a day of joyous celebration, dancing and singing, but it was instead filled with grief, shock and mourning over the hundreds killed in Hamas’ strikes on Israel just a day prior. more

Rabbi Avi Weiss of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale — The Bayit found himself with family members in Israel celebrating his wife Toby’s 80th birthday last weekend. more

Many on Saturday woke to shocking footage on their TVs of buildings in Israel tumbling apart from Hamas missiles and women and children being kidnapped and tortured by Hamas militants. more

Three Riverdale Avenue businesses were burglarized in the early hours last Friday. Mamajuana Prime Cafe, Riverdale Gourmet Deli and Studio Delaj were the targets of the burglaries that … more

Each year, eighth-grade families in New York City try to figure out which high school to attend. It becomes chaotic as deadlines approach. more

The father of 22-month-old Nicholas Dominici of Kingsbridge Heights, the toddler who died of fentanyl poisoning while in the care of a Jerome Park day care center, has six words for parents of young children: “Don’t trust your day care center.” more

If it weren’t for a temporary court injunction, greater Riverdale would have already had its first legal cannabis dispensary on Broadway next to a proposed men’s homeless shelter. more

Just more than a week before an infant died and three other children were hospitalized for drug poisoning at a Kingsbridge Heights day center, a New York City agency gave the center a clean bill of health. more

In a quiet corner tucked away in Van Cortlandt Park, you may hear the sound of a neigh. That is probably May, Benny, Rouge or Pumpkin. more