To the editor: I am Morgan Evers, one of your elected state Democratic Committee Members representing the 81st Assembly District. more

What has happened to us? The vitriol and over-the-top rhetoric — and worse — is out-of-control and has been so since at least 2016. more

For many, summer is the time for camp, vacation and weekend barbecues. more

Perhaps unique in the animal kingdom is humans’ ability to interpret tiny marks on clay tablets, stone, papyrus, paper, or some other material — and now on tiny screens. The ability not only to absorb the meaning of those tiny marks, but to respond to them emotionally, and to think about them. more

To the editor: (re: “No room for homeless, migrants,” June 29) I am so disgusted with Mitch Kaufman that I don’t know where to begin. more

To the editor: (re: “It was all over a simple typo,” June 29) What a strange letter Lewis Kaminski wrote in a recent edition of The Riverdale Press, equating the willful alteration of nearly 250 legal documents with a typo in The Press. more

To the editor: (re: “No room for homeless, migrants,” June 29) My name is Peter Pantone-Lavelle. I’m 10 years old and I go to P.S. 81. I want to respond to Mitch Kaufman’s recent letter to the editor. more

Fireworks are a fun summer spectacle the whole family can enjoy. Millions across the country gathered to watch these colorful displays light up the night sky last weekend and on Tuesday, and similar shows will continue all summer. more

To the editor: The celebration of Juneteenth was a pivotal marker of freedom for the enslaved Blacks in 1865 and beyond. However, the idea that the slaves were freed two years before, via the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 — the executive order of its day — and the news of freedom took that long to then be announced by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas, were myths.  more

To the editor: (re: “Apartment building could tower over Broadway,” June 8) Applause, please, for the Yaghoubi family and their brass tacks idea to build affordable housing on … more