The average price of a home in Central Riverdale increased over 15.2 percent to $425,495 from 2000 through 2007, according to an analysis by the Riverdale Press. The average price in the tony Fieldston section of Riverdale increased 17.4 percent during the same time period to $1.7 million.
A reader who supports Obama emailed a report from the Bronx this morning:
6:50am - 18 year old holding an Obama sign in front of the only Starbucks in [R]iverdale. The store wasn't event open yet! Hillary's toast!But Read More
Eight days after being sworn in as governor, Eliot Spitzer's campaign transferred $2,799.85 to the Bronx Democratic Trustees Committee, the only political organization to get a contribution, according to the latest campaign filings. The Bronx is Spitzer's home borough (Go Riverdale!) and is a power base for one of his political consultants, Read More
Joe Lieberman will be in town on July 22 for an evening fund-raiser sponsored by the pro-Israel political action committee NORPAC. The invite to the event, which will be held at a private home of New York chemicals magnate Jack Bendheimin in Riverdale, emphasized Lieberman's commitment "to the strongest relationship" on the issue of US-Israel Read More
There’s a new and ugly wrinkle to Bridezilla, that monstrous, wedding-obsessed creature baptized back in the innocent days of early 2001 by The New York Times Sunday Styles section, whose well-thumbed end pages remain the sine qua non for the wedding-obsessed, even though the announcements therein no longer fall under the comfortingly musty rubric of Read More
Now that cutting little slits in one’s arm is the preferred form of self-mutilation, eating disorders seem almost passé. Like Balenciaga bags, everyone in New York has had one, and they’re worn fairly casually. But what’s more curious to me is that my admission of having once been bulimic has often been met with nods Read More
Now that cutting little slits in one’s arm is the preferred form of self-mutilation, eating disorders seem almost passé. Like Balenciaga bags, everyone in New York has had one, and they’re worn fairly casually.
But what’s more curious to me is that my admission of having once been bulimic has often been met with nods of Read MoreFreddy stopped in at a nursing home in Riverdale this morning to cast his vote, promising "a steady diet of ideas" from here on in and sympathizing with a voter who said she needed a drink.
Down the hill, the ad agency Weber Shandwick put a mule and a mustachioed Hispanic man with Read More
So up in Riverdale -- look, things get slow in Riverdale sometimes -- there's quite a bit of amused chatter about the service Freddy's been getting from the Department of Transportation. The city is repaving Palisade Avenue and Kappock Street, which intersect "right on the doorstep" of Freddy's coop, a Bronx-based reader writes. (Well, Read More
The Riverdale Review is reporting: "Indictments of borough officials over corruption charges could be handed down shortly. "Several sources close to the investigation, including one in the Department of Justice, have intimated to this newspaper that the grand jury in the case against State Senator Efrain Gonzalez, Jr., has closed, and indictments will be Read More
Is a supporter who has to apologize. That's the message of Ollie Koppell's opponent in the Democratic primary, according to a Bronx newspaper. "Koppell must take responsibility for his role in promoting Jennings' career and the diminished influence that came with it," Ari Hoffnung told The Riverdale Review. "Jennings would not be Read More
Two years ago, when Michael Sherman completed his cooking apprenticeships at several of the city's most famous kitchens-among them Lespinasse, Bouley, Aureole and March-he decided, like so many impatient young culinarians, to open his own restaurant.
"I looked at all of the boroughs in the city and discovered a huge void-in the Bronx," Mr. Sherman recalled. Read More