A party was held last Sunday at the plaza on Kappock Street and Knolls Crescent in celebration of a 14-year-old community garden started by Rita Freed. It was a celebration of the volunteers and all the hard work they’ve done to cultivate and clean the garden.
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By ERIC HARVEY
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8/6/23
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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.
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By GARY LARKIN
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10/13/23
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RACHEL PAPELL-Portuguese, 9, plans out her perfect spring garden on Sunday
using Wave Hill's Flower Garden as inspiration.
SEVEN-YEARold Rachel Weisinger-Ilardi sees lots of trees in her …
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12/13/01
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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.
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By ERIC HARVEY
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10/13/23
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All programs are held on Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 4 p.m., in the Kerlin
Learning Center, at Wave Hill, West 249th Street and Independence Avenue. The
program is free with paid admission …
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12/13/01
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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.
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5/7/23
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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.
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5/7/23
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After a multi-year search, the Riverdale Presbyterian Church has announced the installation of a new pastor.
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By Eric Harvey
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5/7/23
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Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz watches as his grandson lights the menorah of the fourth night of Hannukah on Sunday, Dec. 10. Councilman Eric Dinowitz also shares in the festivities at Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale. Also taking in the fun at the menorah lighting are Bronx borough president Vanessa Gibson and U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres.
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12/15/23
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After being closed for several years and left to be covered in graffiti, the Land & Sea Restaurant on 5535 Broadway is finally being demolished and in its place is coming a joint Burger King and Popeyes.
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By ERIC HARVEY
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9/3/23
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