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The city department of transportation has started construction on two bike lanes in the northwest Bronx, a step toward a seven-mile, on-street greenway from Van Cortlandt Park to Randall’s Island Park ...
Juneteenth in Van Cortlandt Park honored enslaved ancestors through drumming, dance, and a new effort to reimagine the Enslaved African Burial Ground.
A group of nearly 20 northwest Bronx locals joined thousands in Manhattan for the June 14 ‘No Kings’ demonstration, a nationwide effort led by an organization called the 50501 Movement — 50 states, 50 ...
Growing up in the Bronx, science felt like a world apart. Amazing discoveries were constantly being made, yet I never imagined I would conduct my own research. That changed when I entered Mr. … ...
Daisy Olive Levy Rosenfield, born May 24, 1919, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital on June 23. She was 91 years old. At the funeral, held in her memory on June 25, her daughter Phyllis Steele, director of ...
Carrie Sperry Elston, whose father is the president of Friends of the Hudson River Greenway in Riverdale, married James Alden Tunick on Saturday at Wave Hill, where the bride’s mother serves as a ...
A Bronx apartment owner, who’s a regular on the city’s “worst landlords” list, will now have to defend his business practices in court.
The David A. Stein Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy, MS/HS 141 was among only 5 percent of schools citywide to receive a D on its progress report, which purports to measure how schools are doing by ...
The New School for Leadership and Journalism, MS 244 is getting a makeover. On Feb. 17 the District 10 Community Education Council approved a name change for the school. Soon, it will go by The … ...
A two-alarm fire that broke out in a 14th floor apartment of 2400 Johnson Ave. on Sept. 22 has claimed its second victim. Marinus Dykshoorn, 91, died at 7:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, at Weill Cornell … ...
Longtime Brooklyn Heights residents Dozier Hasty and Nancy Havens-Hasty will receive The DeWitt Clinton Award for Excellence -- Green-Wood’s highest honor -- at the tenth annual fundraising gala ...
You could call it the West Side Story of children’s theater companies. Except instead of Jets and Sharks, Riverdale has flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz finger-snapping their way up to ducks … ...