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Busy 'baby burglar' skews crime stats

By Tommy Hallissey

View 2008 crime statistics by sector (pdf)

The Baby Burglar — a notorious 14-year-old boy — almost single-handedly accounted for a 50-percent increase in burglary, the one category of crime that spiked in the 50th Precinct during the first six months of the year.

Burglaries jumped from 80...

Graduation ceremonies evoke tears and cheers

Graduation ceremonies evoke tears and cheers

By Josh Glasser and Kate McNeil

Hundreds of Riverdale-Kingsbridge students graduated last week from...

High-stepping horse has hopes for Olympic gold

High-stepping horse has hopes for Olympic gold

By Tommy Hallissey

Pop Art’s muscular chestnut brown body moves with military precision as...

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School playground set to close for year

By Tommy Hallissey

Spuyten Duyvil Playground, adjacent to PS 24, will be closed for a year because of construction work at the elementary school,...

Pet detective solves case of purloined pug

By Tommy Hallissey

Danielle Cioti’s pet pug, Bella, went on an Odyssey that took her all the way to Elizabeth, N.J. It took lots of help...

Delivery delays plague computer grant

By Kate McNeil

School’s out for summer but PS 24 is just receiving new technology promised last fall.

Last fall Councilman Oliver Koppell allocated more...

PS 24 may use annex

By Kate McNeil

Following Councilman Oliver Koppell’s urging, the city Department of Education said it would consider using the Whitehall annex to reduce overcrowding...

Bibliophiles bid fond farewell to Riverdale Avenue bookstore

By Josh Glasser

When Amy Levine was away at summer camp 38 years ago, she received a postcard from her mother Fern Jaffe announcing the good...

End in sight for long-delayed guardrail project

By N. Clark Judd

Don’t jinx it.

It took nearly a year, but the new guardrails along the Henry Hudson Parkway’s eastern service road are...



Scuba surprise

ALAN ZALE, a former ‘Press’ photographer, surprises his wife Joan Campanella Zale outside PS 24 in full scuba gear on June 26. Ms. Campanella Zale...

Celebrating diversity

The 12th Annual Art & Music Family Day Festival for Cultural Coexistence had it all: music, games, awards, arts and crafts and plenty of food.

Filling...

Annual Israel bond drive nets close to $1 million

More than 100 people opened up their wallets for Israel on June 22, purchasing nearly $1 million worth of Israel bonds at the Community Tribute...

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