Keyword: Riverdale Country School
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A Horace Mann running back tries to evade a Fieldston player during the Lions' blowout win over the Eagles.
Eagles end regular season, now prep for playoffs
Coming into Saturday’s matchup with Horace Mann School, the Eagles were already without star fullback Blake Koons, who suffered a shoulder injury in last week’s blowout loss at Poly Prep. more
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A Rye Country School running back grinds out some yards against Fieldston Saturday in their big 38-0 drubbing of the Eagles.
Fieldston Eagles losing streak continues on
The Fieldston Eagles (1-3) couldn’t overcome a key injury to their starting quarterback in last week’s close loss to Morristown-Beard Crimson. And it showed in the score Saturday as they were shut out by Rye Country Day (3-1), 38-0 at Fieldston’s homecoming. more
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Fieldston quarterback Wes Heiman rushes past a Hackley defender during Saturday’s home opener. He wound up with 115 all-purpose yards.
Fieldston Eagles blow out Hackley in home opener, 27-2
The Fieldston Eagles got off to a slow start Saturday but started flying in the second half in a 27-2 thrashing of visiting Hackley of Tarrytown in the private high school football season kickoff. more
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Riverdale Country School will host a three-week pilot program of Horizons NYC. Unlike traditional summer schools, students don't spend 45 minutes reading, writing, and math. Instead, students spend time in creative lessons to push their thinking and learning.
Summer pilot stems COVID learning loss
What began two years ago as a way for Riverdale Country School to help disadvantaged youth during the pandemic has grown into a sustainable summer school program. more
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Henry Wright was elected to the governing body of the U.N.’s Education Cannot Wait fund. The offering is the first of its kind, designed to focus on the education of children who are now refugees as a result of war or natural disasters. Wright, 19, is a graduate of Riverdale Country School.
Learned lessons send Riverdale Country teen around the world
While many 19-year-olds prepared to start their spring semester of college, Henry Wright was preparing for something much different. more
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Martin Zelnik, left, blossomed into a competitive college tennis player at Bradeis University with the help of coach Bud Collins, seen here in 1961. Collins would go on to become a tennis commentator for CBS, NBC and ESPN. Zelnik, who returned to Riverdale to grow his architectural firm, will now have an award given to two Brandeis walk-on athletes each year in his name.
Brandeis creates award honoring walk-on Marty Zelnik
It’s an impressive list of multi-sports greats: Deion Sanders. Jim Thorpe. Bo Jackson. Jackie Robinson is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame, but excelled at three other sports in college as well — football, basketball and track. Still, he’d have to tack on one more to catch up with Martin Zelnik. more
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James Joseph McAlary's famly walks through Endor Garden near West 253rd Street and Fieldston Road after Saturday's dedication ceremony of a new sign commemorating victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks created by students from Riverdale Country School. McAlary, a commodities broker with Carr Futures, was attending a meeting on the 92nd floor of World Trade Center Tower One when it was struck by a plane that morning.
Hundreds gather to unveil Endor Garden 9/11 sign
Vandals may have stolen a sign from the entrance of Fieldston’s Endor Gardens four years ago, but they couldn’t claim the neighborhood’s spirit. more
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Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, someone constructed a wooden plaque in Fieldston’s Endor Garden honoring five local first responders who died that day. But someone stole the display in 2017, leaving it empty ever since. Laura Spalter and others are set to change that Saturday with the unveiling of a new plaque in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
Community comes together to restore garden
Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, someone anonymously constructed a wooden plaque in Endor Garden, a small wooded area near West 253rd Street and Fieldston Road. On it, they included the names of five area firefighters and police officers who lost their lives on 9/11. more
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Artist Nicky Enright joins a volunteer painting a mural on the back retaining wall of 3636 Greystone Ave., where he lives. Enright was commissioned to paint this mural, ‘Aquarium,’ by his building’s co-op board because he’s no stranger to mural painting.
Enright commands ocean of talent
It’s not easy to pin labels on Nicky Enright. Over the course of the Riverdale artist’s career, he’s done video, photography — even painting. But perhaps the one thing Enright keeps coming back to is his love of creating murals. more
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In years past, the Con Edison MoMathlon has taken place at the ConEdison building — and even more locally at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. But this year, students competed remotely thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Solving the problem of virtual math competitions
For some middle schoolers, there is nothing more daunting than a math test. But nearly a dozen of them from one Bronx school took one unlike any other last month. And they did so voluntarily. more
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