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In May, average rent in the Bronx increased 2.24 percent from $2,187 to $2,236, according to New York real estate platform MNS’s latest Rental Market Report. more

By Abigail Nehring | 6/19/22

Another view of the Marble Hill Houses from the elevated subway trains. The housing project has 11 buildings that span both the Bronx and Manhattan in Marble Hill.

NYCHA gets much-needed financing authority

The New York City Housing Authority will soon move forward in its plan to place some 25,000 apartments into a new NYCHA Preservation Trust — a public benefit corporation state lawmakers voted to establish last week. more

By Abigail Nehring | 6/10/22

Mayor Eric Adams makes a health-related announcement at City Hall. Tuesday, March 22, 2022.

NYC not worried about Westchester COVID surge

As New York City public school students have gotten acclimated to shedding the COVID masks, there has been some disappointing news in a neighboring Bronx county. The county of Westchester is experiencing a surge in COVID omicron subvariant cases. more

By STACY DRIKS | 5/27/22

A Mercedes-Benz parked in the Northwest Bronx on Monday, May 16, 2022.

NYCHA worker gets 12 years in 2020 shooting

A former New York City Housing Authority employee was sentenced to 12 years in prison for shooting a building superintendent who had written him up for a job infraction, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office. more

By SACHI McCLENDON | 5/21/22

At left, Mayor Eric Adams delivers remarks at the Hanson Place Seventh-Day Adventist Church affordable housing groundbreaking. 88 Hanson Place, Brooklyn. At right, before he was elected to the city council, Eric Dinowitz was a public school special education teacher. And he believes that experience will prove formative now that he can impact city policy on a higher level in his new role as a councilman.

Boro prez Gibson applauds mayor’s $100B city budget

Greater Riverdale’s elected city officials agree New York City mayor Eric Adams’ nearly $100 billion fiscal 2023 executive budget proposal addresses the area’s and city’s greatest needs: affordable child care and improved schools, homelessness, subway safety and park upgrades. more

By GARY LARKIN | 5/6/22

Heating upgrades for Marble Hill not one, done

The announcement that Marble Hill Houses will get much-needed heating upgrades was great news for those living at the public housing complex. more

5/2/22

Don’t believe COVID is gone yet

To the editor: It pains me to write this, but apparently I was wrong about my hope and expectation that COVID-19 would become far less dangerous in New York City as we went through the spring, summer and fall. more

4/21/22

(From Left) Hasnie Ahmetaj, Dawill Hernandez and Jolissa Mendez pose for a portrait as they begin one of their shifts on 27-Victor, an ambulance that will no longer permanently serve the Riverdale area starting in October.

And then they took away the ambulances

Hasnie Ahmetaj has responded to emergency medical calls in this part of Bronx for the past three years. She’s shocked hearts back to life in Kingsbridge. She’s revived patients who couldn’t breathe in Spuyten Duyvil. She’s treated dozens and dozens of COVID-19 victims in the back of an ambulance as it sped along Riverdale Avenue. more

By SACHI McCLENDON | 4/4/22

An MTA express bus shoots around the corner at the intersection of Kappock Street and Johnson Avenue, the Spuyten Duyvil intersection where political activist Ruth Mullen was killed last September. Lawmakers have since pushed for the city’s transportation department to install a traffic light, and make other safety improvements there.

Cops: MTA bus driver missed stop sign in fatal crash

The driver whose bus struck and killed political activist Ruth Mullen in Spuyten Duyvil last September did not come to a full stop at a stop sign prior to the accident. more

By SACHI McCLENDON | 3/22/22

Stacy B. Driks education reporter at The Riverdale Press

Plenty of jobs for young people

Are you a young person hoping to make a little bit of money this summer? If so, the city might have a job for you. more

By MICHAEL HINMAN | 2/20/22

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