Joyce Pilsner, longtime executive director of RMHA, said Dr. Spetter brought together people from all factions of the community to start the association, which began in a single room at the Riverdale ...

John A. Moran, who died on July 24 in Margate, N.J., “was a devoted Riverdalian with a great love of the neighborhood where he grew up and raised his family,” his son John recalls. In fact, Mr. Moran, ...

Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown, right, and Community Board 8 chair Robert Fanuzzi, left, pose for a picture with Yankee Youth Leadership Award Winners Noah Clanton, Chris Williams, Daniel Vladimirsky ...

Dedicated activists rallied outside a Citizens Bank branch on West 235th Street, urging the financial institution to divest from for-profit prison operators that run dozens of U.S. Immigration and … ...

Leslie Goldfischer, a Riverdale resident for almost 40 years, died on Saturday, June 28 at age 64, after a prolonged and courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Ms. Goldfischer was born at … ...

As knife-related incidents among young people rise in New York City, outreach workers and violence prevention groups are expanding mediation and school programs aimed at stopping conflicts before they ...

Riverdale residents gathered March 7 for the neighborhood’s seventh annual St. Patrick’s Day parade, a grassroots tradition started during the pandemic that has grown from 20 neighbors into a lively ...

YoungArts, a national organization focused on visual, literary and performing arts for emerging artists nationwide, named Luz Velázquez winner of the gold award in jazz along with a $10,000 … ...

Manhattan University Women’s Soccer got off to a rough start to their 2025 season both on and off the field ...

With her eccentric style filled with mystical glamour, La India -- The Princess of Salsa – returns to Lehman Center for her third annual Mother’s Day concert. With a career spanning … ...

Only four months after completion in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed. This new suspension bridge was based on what were presumed to be the full set of engineering ...

Riverdale resident Alan J. Levine died in his home on the morning of Jan. 28, 2026, at 89 years old. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Jan. 15, 1937 to Sylvia and Jacques Levine, who provided him with ...