The majority of Riverdale/Kingsbridge area schools increased their four-year graduation rate from 2010-2011 to 2011-2012, but the improvements weren’t enough to significantly boost how many … more

Principal Valerie Reidy announced June 12 that she would retire from the Bronx High School of Science. Ms. Reidy’s dozen years leading the prestigious school were marked by a strict and … more

Former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. is behind bars. On June 14, a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Mr. Espada, 59, to five years in prison for stealing from the Soundview Healthcare Network and … more

The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested three men and seized 11 kilograms of heroin, estimated to be worth $8 million, at 181 W. 238th St. on June 12. The DEA’s New York Drug … more

Nothing hits home like housing issues.  And tenants and their supporters fed up with landlord Chestnut Holdings brought their complaints right to chief executive Jonathan Weiner on … more

It wasn’t the Father’s Day they had imagined.  Nine-year-old  and her mother were coming back from shopping for all the trappings to make a Father’s Day picnic June 14, … more

The Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Marble Hill Food & Hunger Project, Inc provides a weekly box of groceries to individuals and families in need, from its pantry at the Church of the Mediator, located at … more

1.  Police said a teen knocked a 39-year-old to the ground, held a knife against his neck and demanded money from him shortly after the man finished delivering food to an apartment at 116 W. … more

State Sen. Jeff Klein and Councilman Oliver Koppell are battling over campaign finance reform in recently published op-eds in The Riverdale Press and the Norwood News.  And it’s not … more

Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, located at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace, seeks volunteers for its teen programs. The center is looking for those with special talents, particularly in art or … more