I have a concern about the derelict flagpole that is located next to the Riverdale Bell Tower/Monument on Riverdale Avenue and West 239th Street. more

The core of the mission of the Kingsbridge Riverdale Van Cortlandt Development Corp., is to support local initiatives aimed at building, enriching, improving and developing our community. The current grassroots campaign to bring a Trader Joe’s to North Riverdale fits perfectly into that mission, and it is something that I — as the executive director of KRVC — fully support. more

In the past few months, I’ve had the privilege of getting to know Jamaal Bowman, who is running for Congress against Eliot Engel, the 30-year representative of the 16th district. more

This is in response to a letter to the editor from Avrum Hyman, responding to your June 20 story about a photographic history of gay and lesbian writers. more

As Eleanor Roosevelt told the Democratic convention in 1940, this is no ordinary time. more

Life begins at the point of conception. No one can deny that after a human being is conceived, it will develop into the very same being as those debating this issue. more

Doesn’t it occur to Ms. Karina Muñoz and her mother that when Donald Trump denigrates Mexican immigrants, he could just as well be denigrating Dominicans? more

We are writing to make known the importance of urging our congressional representative, Eliot Engel — chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — to do whatever is in his considerable power to prevent the transfer of bombs and missiles to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other “coalition” members in Yemen. more

As far as I can tell from your reporting and my attendance at community meetings, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has not weighed in on the city’s proposal to eviscerate the protections afforded to Riverdale’s green and open space by the Special Natural Area District regulations. more

In a historic landslide win, more than 600,000 adoptees in New York will be able to access their original birth certificates starting in mid-January. I’m proud to have fought for a clean bill giving back us adoptees what rightfully belongs to us for the past 19 years. more