Simchat Torah should have been a day of joyous celebration, dancing and singing, but it was instead filled with grief, shock and mourning over the hundreds killed in Hamas’ strikes on Israel just a day prior. more

All programs are held on Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 4 p.m., in the Kerlin Learning Center, at Wave Hill, West 249th Street and Independence Avenue. The program is free with paid admission … more

Throughout the week, there were artists and music doing their thing, including a mariachi band that walked from restaurant to restaurant as part of Riverdale Restaurant Week April 15-22. or the Friendly Fridge BX, DineOut Riverdale made 231 sandwiches, rice and beans meals and donated fresh produce, water bottles and juice. more

SAR High School and SAR Academy celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaut on April 25. The high school started with a schoolwide tefilla — a prayer — memorable and exciting festivity along with scholarly lessons dedicated to find peaceful solutions in any situation and meaning in Israel’s founding father. In 1948, David Ben-Gurion was the known national founder of the state of Israel. And the first prime minister. more

After a multi-year search, the Riverdale Presbyterian Church has announced the installation of a new pastor. more

Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz watches as his grandson lights the menorah of the fourth night of Hannukah on Sunday, Dec. 10. Councilman Eric Dinowitz also shares in the festivities at Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale. Also taking in the fun at the menorah lighting are Bronx borough president Vanessa Gibson and U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres. more

After being closed for several years and left to be covered in graffiti, the Land & Sea Restaurant on 5535 Broadway is finally being demolished and in its place is coming a joint Burger King and Popeyes. more

Not many can say they made it to 100 and even fewer could say they made it 110. But the oldest living resident at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale Adlin Boyd Douglas can. more

CLOCKWISE from top: 3-year-old twins Margaretha and Anna Brohmer, taken in 1907; 'Mother and Son, 1985,' snapped at the Kennedy Child Study Center in Kingsbridge; Freddie and Marguerite … more

Now that the Edgehill Church of Spuyten Duyvil on Independence Avenue has begun its transformation into the headquarters for the Kingsbridge Historical Society, the hard part begins. more