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Shelly Bender enjoys a last meal with her friends at Blue Bay Restaurant on Johnson Avenue Nov. 28.

Blue Bay Restaurant served their last $12.50 burger deluxe Monday before the curtain dropped on a half century of Riverdale dining at 3533 Johnson Ave. — a neighborhood hub since 1975 when a bacon and egg special with coffee and juice cost just 68 cents. more

By Abigail Nehring | 12/2/22

Members and volunteers with the Oyate Group unpack frozen turkeys from a truck at 3340 Bailey Ave. Tuesday morning. The turkeys were among 200 that the non-profit distributed to area organizations that will go to those who go hungry.

Mom, daughter taking part in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade

Riverdale will be represented during this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Navy Snell, a third-grader at P.S. 81 Robert J. Christen School, and her mother, Lavasia Minus, of North Riverdale will be on two separate floats Thursday. more

By Gary Larkin | 11/23/22

Rep. Ritchie Torres went to Israel with a group of local Riverdale rabbis to learn more about the country’s past and present. This was the congressman’s fourth trip to the country.

Bronx electeds and community leaders forge Jewish connection

With antisemitism on the rise in the United States, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres returned from a trip to Israel with a new appreciation of the relationship with the Jewish community in the northwest Bronx. more

By Sachi McClendon | 11/23/22

Rebecca Handwerger age 8 poet from spider magazine.

A Spuyten Duyvil poet is born and published in kids magazine

An 8-year-old girl from Spuyten Duyvil made a foray into her young writing career by having a poem published in a national kids magazine. more

By Gary Larkin | 11/18/22

Everybody scream in our town of Halloween

A father helps his ‘superhero’ son ‘fly’ during the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center’s annual harvest festival. more

11/4/22

Rep. Ritchie Torres, along with Borough President Vanessa Gibson and District Attorney Darcel Clark, are heading to Israel at the end of the month. None of the electeds have made a public announcement about the trip thus far.

Torres, other electeds, get ready for trip to Israel

Rep. Ritchie Torres will join a group of Bronx dignitaries and Riverdale rabbis on a trip to Israel Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 to learn more about diversity and the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. more

By Sachi McClendon | 10/28/22

Kayla Perez, 17, and her sister Jayla, 8, paint a pink bow on their spider’s web on Johnson Avenue during the Halloween painting contest Saturday. Jayla was a winner.

Cheers for trying to go ... BOO!!

More than 100 children from area schools and more than 30 merchants participated in the 65th annual Kiwanis Club of Riverdale Halloween window painting contest Saturday. more

STAFF REPORT | 10/28/22

Carly Simon, center, and sisters Lucy and Joanna in a 1964 photograph taken by their brother, Peter, who at the time freelanced for The Riverdale Press.

Two lights go out in Simon family with passing of Joanna and Lucy

Ask anyone who lived in greater Riverdale over the past 50 or so years, and they will tell you about the Simon sisters, a group of girls who sang on their front lawn to raise money for such efforts as the Riverdale Mental Health Association. more

By Abigail Nehring and Gary Larkin | 10/28/22

The exterior of Van Cortlandt House, a place that may house more stories than actual ghosts.

Haunting the Van Cortlandts

The sun streamed cheerily on Van Cortlandt Park on a Friday in late October and a lone catbird called across the parade grounds. more

By Abigail Nehring | 10/28/22

Marble Hill Senior Center took a 1-mile walk to Shop & Stop on Oct. 11. There seniors they learned about exercise and produce with high potassium that reduces high blood pressure.

Senior citizens take first steps toward healthy eating

If there is anything Cecilia Santana and Rosa Ogando learned during their recent senior center field trip to neighborhood grocer Shop & Stop, it is about living a healthier lifestyle. more

By Stacy Driks | 10/21/22

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