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Construction more than a bump in the night Neighbors can’t figure out why work must last into the very wee hours By CHEYENNE R. UBIERA Intern
Getting equal CB8 is getting a racial equity committee, but is it what one member who started it all is looking for? Page A3
Summer nights haven’t been peaceful for some of the residents of 2601 Henry Hudson Parkway. No, it’s not leftover fireworks from Fourth of July. Instead, it’s construction crews ripping up old asphalt along the busy parkway into the wee hours of the night — keeping many awake with loud noises and bright floodlights ruining bedtime. Numerous complaints have been made to 311, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority — which oversees the work — hasn’t offered much of a reply. The lack of communication has increased tensions among neighbors who seek some kind of relief. Even visitors are getting tired of the
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Construction trucks backing up on the Henry Hudson parkway are the main source of the noise keeping many of its neighbors up, according to those very same residents. The culprit? The Metropolitan Transportation Authority. commotion. Rather than working from his home in New Jersey, David Handschuh has been staying with a friend in Spuyten Duyvil. The noise, he said, has led to countless sleepless nights, with the main culprits
the constant beeping of trucks backing up. The sounds are so loud that Handschuh says it can even wake him from a deep sleep. “Sometimes I think, ‘Is that my alarm?’”
Handschuh said. “Then I realize that it’s just another truck on the Henry Hudson Parkway.” He says neighbors in the building are just as fed up as he is. And the worst part? It doesn’t have to be this way. Late-night construction means less traffic and cooler summertime temperatures. However, the coronavirus pandemic has led to some of the lowest traffic levels in American history, and New York City traffic isn’t any different. Because of that, Handschuh believes a lot of that work can be moved to the daytime, when people are at work, or at least awake. Typically, commercial and highway construction is allowed in the cities on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.. Work can occur after hours and on the weekends if it is emergency work that is necessary for public safety and cannot be completed during normal hours. But Handschuh says this isn’t an emergency. “Fixing up severe potholes is an emergency, but putting down a new roadway CONSTRUCTION, page A4
More coronavirus victims
Parents seek new options after school closes
St. John’s School was the last Catholic school open in Kingsbridge Anxious times The coronavirus is bad for our health, but not just the physical kind. Efforts are being made to address mental issues, too. Page A6
Is it open yet? Parks are slowly coming back to full force, but there are some things you can’t expect for a while. Page A11
By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
When the more than 260 students poured out of the doors of St. John’s School in mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic bore down on the state, they likely thought they would return soon. If not this academic year, then per- ‘Children haps the next? At least by 2021, even in the are always worst-case scenario. But it now seems the most that departure from innocent the Kingsbridge Avenue school was the victims of final one. St. John’s is any crisis, one of 20 in the city and surrounding area and this the Archdiocese of New York has closed COVID-19 permanently. pandemic The affected schools were not only is no in the Bronx, but also exception.’ in other parts of New — Cardinal York City as well as Westchester, Rock- Timothy Dolan land, Orange and Dutchess counties. In a letter to parents, Cardinal Timothy Dolan blamed the massive tuition revenue loss caused by the coronavirus pandemic, a loss that now impacts some 2,500 students and 350 faculty members. St. John’s was among six schools closed in the Bronx, along with Nativity of Our Blessed Lady in Eastchester, Our Lady of
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The Archdiocese of New York says it’s closing 20 Catholic elementary schools, including St. John’s School in Kingsbridge. Now its students must find a new home before the academic year begins in September. the Assumption School in Pelham Bay, St. Luke School in Mott Haven, Sts. Philip & James School in Williamsbridge, and St. Thomas Aquinas School in West Farms. All 20 of the affected institutions were primarily elementary schools, although many taught students up to eighth grade.
“Children are always the most innocent victims of any crisis, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception,” Dolan said, in a release. “Too many have lost parents and grandparents to this insidious virus, and now thousands will not see their beloved school again.”
Virus is no match for Bronx ‘machine’
The pandemic had an impact on Catholic schools for several reasons, Dolan said in a separate letter to parents. Most of the affected schools were parochial, and their respective churches have not been open for religious services. This meant SCHOOL CLOSING, page A4
After last-minute budget vote, city scrambles to restart programs By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN
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t’s been made clear there is a correlation between healthy eating and success in education for kids. And that’s exactly what fuels Stephen Ritz, a long-time educator from Riverdale who wants to transform society into small, resilient communities. To make that happen, he founded Green Bronx Machine in 2011, an all-volunteer organization that incorporates a healthy eating initiative in schools where kids may have more limited options while providing fresh produce to lower income areas. The organization touches 50,000 students across 500 schools all over the country every day. “Children will never be well-read
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Green Bronx Machine founder Stephen Ritz has worked to provide students with healthy foods while learning how to grow their own produce — all in an effort to cultivate a healthy lifestyle. if they’re not well-fed,” Ritz said. “So giving children access to healthy learning paradigms and healthy, fresh food is critical now more than ever.” Green Bronx Machine specializes in indoor academic learning gardens. Students from the elementary to college level cultivate produce using
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90 percent less water and 90 percent less space. Each of these “edible classrooms” can grow enough food to feed 450 people. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something,” Ritz said. “We believe we are at the forefront of a movement locally grown GREEN MACHINE, page A4
It’s an annual process that generally doesn’t get a lot of attention: The city council and Mayor Bill de Blasio negotiate a budget to fund New York City for the next 12 months to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. In 2020, though, the city found itself in the middle of more than one historic event. The coronavirus pandemic — which has had the city slowed down and, until recently, completely shuttered — has put thousands out of work while draining money from city coffers — money needed to keep many of New York City’s programs continuing for the coming year. Then, in May, George Floyd died at the hands of police in Minneapolis, prompting what has turned into weeks of nationwide outrage, including daily protests across New York City. BUDGET VOTE, page A4
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Drivers: Beware of rogue passengers Maintaining an Uber or taxicab is hard enough in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, with many drivers around the city stapling up plastic sheet barriers to keep them safe from their passenger’s germs. For one cab driver, however, that plastic wasn’t quite enough protection. Just before 6 p.m., on July 6, the cabbie dropped off his passenger on the corner of West 195th Street and Sedgwick Avenue, after picking him up in Manhattan. The passenger got out without paying, police said, then turned back to the driver and demanded money while flashing him a black revolver. The driver refused, and the man ran east on West 195th Street, police said, leaving him physically unharmed. Police are on the lookout for a Black man, about 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, wearing a dark blue baseball cap and black sweatpants.
Lock up your windows
Waking up in the middle of the night to find someone standing over you is a common horror movie trope — but sometimes these home invaders are not interested in finding you at all. Early on the morning of July 10, police say someone slipped into a house on the 3400 block of Arlington Avenue through a basement window, which may have been left open. Once inside, this person filled their bags with $1,400 worth of stolen goods, including an Apple iPad, and slipped back out without seeing a soul.
There were no cameras in the home, so the late-night thief’s identity is unknown.
Shouldn’t have taken the train
If a car window is shattered on the street, and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Maybe not, since someone was successfully able to get into a car parked on Edsall Avenue near the Spuyten Duyvil train station on July 5. The car was parked on the shaded street from about 7:40 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., police said. But when the owner returned, he found the front passengerside window broken, and about $150 worth of his belongings gone. Police are investigating.
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It was the wrong night to leave important possessions inside a parked car along Kappock Street. The car was left the evening of June 20, and looked quite different when the owner returned the following day. Both rear windows of the 2009 Nissan Xterra were smashed and quite a stash had been stolen from the backseat, including an external computer hard drive, a 27-inch Acer computer monitor, three pieces of luggage, and an orange raincoat. Police valued the loot at more than $600. While many parts of Kappock have cameras, police say no footage of this particular theft has surfaced, so the investigation is ongoing.
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CB8 forgoes business as usual for racial equity committee By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
With the entire country swept up in protests, antiracist education, and calls for reform from police departments to college campuses, Community Board 8 simply couldn’t go on like nothing was happening. In the wake of his attempt to become CB8’s new leader, Sergio Villaverde introduced a resolution last month asking the board to address systemic racism not just in the community, but in the board itself. The resolution asked that the board not to return to “business as usual” as the entire country was swept up in protests at the SErgIO vILLAvErDE time following the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Rather than wait until the board began regular meetings again after a summer break, Villaverde demanded immediate action. Fellow CB8 memrOSALIND ber Margaret Della responded immedizAvrAS ately with what would become a working group. A month later, that working group became an official special committee at an out-ofseason board meeting, with CB8 treasurer Rosalind Zavras taking the lead. “We are moving from working group to special committee as outlined in our bylaws,” new CB8 chair Laura Spalter said during the meeting, adding it’s “a structure that I believe we are all united on. The needs of the community are always changing, and the board must prepare to meet these needs. Tonight is only the first of many steps.” The new racial equity special committee will meet for the first time July
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Margaret Della, a member of Community Board 8 who also is the executive director of Kingsbridge Heights Community Center, spearheaded the effort to form a new racial equity special committee, sending out an initial email to establish a working group that ultimately became this new committee. 21 at 7 p.m. Like other special committees, Spalter told The Riverdale Press, it will continue on for only a year, unless board members decide it’s still needed. Joining Zavras are board vice chair Bob Bender along with Della, Robert Fanuzzi, Daris Jackson and Jyll Townes. But the makeup of the committee didn’t come together without controversy. The resolution in front of the board last week offered to create the committee, with its members already named. However, Julia Gomez pushed to approve the resolution without naming any names, leaving positions open to nominations from the floor. Her issue was that she hadn’t received no-
tice that such a special committee was forming already, and wanted to ensure anyone who wanted to be on the committee were considered. One of the names notably absent from the special committee membership was Villaverde, who submitted the initial resolution addressing systemic racism in the first place. Spalter, who more than once appeared to be speaking from prepared remarks, said Villaverde rejected joining the working group, and just assumed his lack of interest would continue into the formation of a special committee. “If we had a more democratic and open process, I certainly would want to be part of it,” Villaverde told The Press
after the meeting. “It wasn’t an option under the resolution that was put forth. There are other people on the board that have expertise in this area.” Zavras, the presumptive chair of the committee, said she understood the concerns of board members who felt frustrated by the way the working group and the committee were formed, but intends to take everyone’s experiences into account as the committee begins its work. “My belief is that I’m not really a chair but rather a facilitator of this work,” she told The Press. “And that’s kind of how I approach a lot of my work in general.” Zavras signed on to the working
group within minutes of receiving Della’s email, she said, wanting to get started as quickly as possible. She has a background in providing resources and training in gender and social equity. Addressing racial inequities was something the board doesn’t do enough, Villaverde said. “Systemic racism goes into the economics, the way that equity happens and doesn’t happen, in our economic system, in our educational system, in our health care system,” he said. “All things that the community board has specific committees on, that are supposed to address these things.” It wasn’t anybody’s fault, Villaverde said, that those inequities weren’t addressed — he himself had failed to take them on during his tenure as the economic development committee chair. But still, he thinks it’s time to take responsibility for those issues within the board. “I think one of the challenges in the neighborhood is we’re pretty siloed,” Zavras said. “We have Riverdale, we have Spuyten Duyvil, and then there’s the whole ‘up the hill,’ ‘down the hill’ divide. One thing that the board can do, and be mindful of, is find ways to build those bridges.” While she isn’t part of the new committee, Spalter said she’s looking forward to its recommendations once regular board meetings resume in the fall. Its first reports are expected by September, ultimately recommending actions for the board to take to ensure its different committees are behaving equitably, and what changes they can make if they’re not. It will provide a lens for everybody, Spalter said. Creating the committee is a step in the right direction, Villaverde said, but the board has work to do to ensure it welcomes people of color who are often overlooked or shut out. “There are ways to do that outreach that we don’t particularly do,” he said. “It’s kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy if you show up and you feel that this is not welcoming and you don’t fit in.”
PRESS POINTS Did we get it all wrong on COVID-19? President Donald Trump has taken a lot of flack lately about how he has handled the coronavirus pandemic to this point — and his approval numbers aren’t helping much either. But now the president has
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someone new he can attack on Twitter: a Lehman College physicist named Eugene Chudnovsky. The professor is the author of new research findings he says raises doubt about how the pandemic was initially handled. The study was not peer-reviewed, and originally appeared
on the open-source MedRxiv website, according to Lehman. “When the fraction of people tested daily is small, the effect of the testing on the number of people who contract the virus daily is small, too,” according to the study, while Chudnovsky wrote with Lehman associate professor Dmitri Garanin.
The two believe that in order to cut infections in half, as much as 10 percent of the working population — or 15 million people — would need to be tested on a daily basis. Because such a feat would be near impossible to pull off, the two instead suggest testing a random sample of asymp-
tomatic people regardless of their medical history in smaller geographic areas, which they believe would provide a better indication on what percentage of the local population actually carries the virus. Chudnovsky and Garanin believe that otherwise, testing and quarantining rates simply
cannot keep up with the rate of infection. This isn’t Chudnovsky’s first foray into the pandemic. Last April he partnered with Luis Anchordoqui to be one of the first to talk about how indoor ventilation systems can spread the virus in a way where social distancing doesn’t matter.
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Green Bronx Machine keeps the good eating going GREEN MACHINE from page A1 in the Bronx that is helping everyone to grow something great and tackle the pandemic one person, one kind action, and one day at a time.” Ritz created agricultural curriculum, protocols, and procedures designed to help teachers, and can be replicated anywhere. “We grow vegetables,” Ritz said, “but our vegetables grow students, schools and communities.” Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Ritz has made weekly produce deliveries across a 26-mile stretch as well as to what he’s determined are the 55 most vulnerable families in the South Bronx. Green Bronx Machine also supports the plating, sourcing and delivery of 2,200 meals daily in public housing. Deliveries and pickups have become more efficient during the pandemic, and with the help of groups like Hunts Point Terminal Market and Gotham Greens, Ritz has been able to pick up produce at its freshest. “We grow a lot of vegetables,” Ritz said. “But when we can’t grow enough, it’s great to know that someone in New York City is growing the best vegetables and that we deliver them within 24 hours.” Since March, Green Bronx Machine has provided grocery deliveries for 26 patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Once the coronavirus closed schools, Ritz and his wife as well as other volunteers made deliveries themselves, once a week over a 24-hour period. Groceries are bagged for delivery at P.S. 24 Spuyten Duyvil where many show up
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Green Bronx Machine works to provide students with healthy foods while also teaching them to grow and cook their own. Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the nonprofit has conducted online cooking classes using ingredients delivered to each student’s home. to volunteer their time. “Every day I am inspired by the brave, heroic and empathetic compassion that lives deep within the hearts of every single New Yorker,” Ritz said.
He’s continued to work with students online daily throughout the pandemic, reading to them virtually or outside buildings and windows. The organization also has provided
instructional support for teachers through the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Green Bronx Machine has used Zoom itself for online cooking classes.
Road work keeps the neighbors up all night
Funding is back, but not for all the city programs BUDGET VOTE from page A1 Some of those protests have been met with mass arrests whether they erupted in violence or not, which for those out on the streets only strengthened their rallying cry: Cut funding to the New York Police Department. It was that demand that drove hundreds of people to protest outside of City Hall for a full seven days leading up to the city council’s recent vote. A week before the budget passed, protesters gathered outside Councilman Andrew Cohen’s Kingsbridge office, asking him to support $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD. “When people came to my office, I didn’t have to be there. The office is closed,” Cohen said. “You know, I look forward to those opportunities when people want to talk to me. I’m always pleased when people want to be engaged. I would say that overwhelmingly, I agree with what the people came to tell me, substantively.” But then again, there are some tactics Cohen could do without, like having his personal cell phone number posted online. He was flooded with calls from people asking him to vote “no” on the budget. Yes, this year’s budget is far from perfect, Cohen said. But that was necessary to prevent control of city coffers being transferred to Albany. “The city needs an on-time budget,” Cohen said. “The ramifications of not having an on-time budget are very serious, including having the state take over the city’s finances. And the city — say whatever you want to say about the State of New York — the City of New York is infinitely more progressive than the State of New York.” While the NYPD is not a perfect institution either, the force is well ahead of its counterparts in other major cities, Cohen said. Big strides have been made toward accountability since he was first elected to the council in 2013. In the final budget, Speaker Corey Johnson said the council had chosen to focus on six key elements of the safety net: public health, access to food, senior citizen services, housing and homelessness, human services providers, and small businesses and property owners. Focusing on those elements, the council reinstated some funding for the education department and
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It was one of the most contentious city budget votes in recent history, says Councilman andrew Cohen, inspiring protesters to camp outside city hall, demanding money be restored to education while slashing funding for the new York police department. for summer youth programs, which provide care, education and job connections. Cuts to those programs would have been especially detrimental to students finishing months of remote learning, said Michelle Yanche, executive director of Good Shepherd Services, which runs several youth programs in Kingsbridge and at DeWitt Clinton High School. Yanche also advises the city’s fair recovery task force on education. “A focus of our conversation has been the need to make sure that we are addressing trauma and that we are putting in place youth development and social and emotional support for young people,” Yanche said. “Both to help them this summer, to have a healthy summer, but also to recover from what has happened over the last three months.” It’s also important for these young people “to be as ready as possible for the new school year, not to lose more ground.” With those goals in mind, Yanche said, cutting the budget for schools and summer programs just didn’t make sense. Although some funding did end up being restored, Good Shepherd and other like organizations across the city are still waiting to find out which of their programs will be impacted by the cuts that did make it through.
“Any time you have a budget that’s passed — it was really midnight on June 30, and goes into effect on July 1 — you are scrambling,” Yanche said. There are a few reasons for that. First, Good Shepherd hasn’t had time to set up its summer programs, so while administrators there are happy to have funding restored, they’re struggling to put together staff and activities. And while they know some funding has been restored, it’s not yet clear where money will be distributed — meaning organizations might be spending money they won’t be reimbursed for. Good Shepherd and other programs have been “rattling the cages” to find out when and where cuts will be made, Yanche said, but it appears even city officials aren’t sure since budget negotiations continued until the last minute. Cohen says he still has discretionary funding to spend, and that might fill some gaps for organizations in need. Budget negotiations have always been intense, Cohen said, but he and the council have been fortunate to frequently have money to burn. This year, that just wasn’t the case. “This was not just a normal budget year with a happy ending,” Yanche said. “This was a lot of disruption of people, more than we’ve ever seen in any other year.”
St. John’s closing leaves parents asking why SCHOOL CLOSING from page A1 tithes couldn’t be collected, portions of which help fund the parish’s school. In addition, many parents couldn’t pre-register for the upcoming academic year because they were furloughed or laid off due to stay-at-home orders as a result of the pandemic. Adding all of that to a significant decline in new enrollments, it created the perfect storm for the schools to close, including St. John’s. So what’s next? Many St. John’s parents are still reeling from what they considered a sudden and unexpected loss. Anisha Applewhite, whose son was supposed to enter second grade at the school, felt St. John’s could have been saved if the community had been called upon for help. “Why wasn’t this information presented to us, if there was a problem with enrollment?” Applewhite asked. “How come they didn’t reach out to us, so we could get the community together so we could support enrollment?”
Ingredients are delivered to each student’s home the day before class to ensure they have everything they need to follow along. “You can’t eat a laptop,” Ritz said. “So we deliver food, instruction, books and materials daily to our students.” Ritz’s work at Green Bronx Machine has made his organization known beyond his home. The organization has received press for its work from the likes of National Geographic and Time for Kids. Ritz was a 2015 finalist for the Global Teacher Prize, a $1 million prize that has only been won by an American once since its founding five years ago. Ritz authored “The Power of a Plant,” donating the proceeds to public schools. He’s even had a chance to meet Pope Francis. Ritz’s students have cooked in the White House during the Obama administration, and he’s even invited the White House chef to visit the Bronx to cook with students. But all these programs do cost money, and Ritz relies on the generosity of others to keep it going. Beyond standard cash donations at GreenBronxMachine.org, buying a “sustainable gangster” T-shirt pays for a bag of groceries for a family, Ritz said, while also providing living-wage employment for those making the T-shirts. Says Ritz: “I think it is important that people know that in our community small, random acts of kindness can have a ripple effect of epic proportions.”
Applewhite is finding the process of locating a new school to be more difficult than expected. She and other St. John’s parents do not consider sending their children to a public school an option. “It’s no offense to the schools in the area,” Applewhite said. “Overcrowdedness is plaguing our Bronx schools.” School overcrowding would already be an issue for any parent choosing a school for their child. But especially in the middle of a public health crisis which mandates physical distancing, overcrowding could be especially dangerous. With public schooling ruled out, Applewhite had to consider other options. There’s one charter school in the immediate area she likes: Amber Charter School on Corlear Avenue. But the waiting list for enrollment is quite long, and it’s unlikely a spot will open up for Applewhite’s son before the academic year begins. The archdiocese said it would help parents affected by the closings find other nearby Catholic elementary
schools. There are two remaining in this part of the Bronx: St. Gabriel’s School on West 235th Street and St. Margaret of Cortona School on West 260th Street. But there are still issues with enrolling in either of the schools. Many St. John’s parents would likely opt for St. Gabriel’s, as it is closer to their Kingsbridge neighborhood. But to Applewhite, her son having to go “up the hill” to continue his Catholic education is asking a lot. “There’s no other option but shifting us to Riverdale,” Applewhite said. “At least if we had another alternative in the same area — maybe within half a mile — we’d be OK with that. Sending us up the hill (is) not fair.” One option did exist at one point. Visitation School welcomed children for decades at West 239th Street near Broadway, but that church — and school — closed down in 2017. In fact, many of the students who had attended that school ultimately ended up at St. John’s. Cost also could be an issue for
displaced students and their families. Both St. Margaret’s and St. Gabriel’s have a steeper tuition than St. John’s. In the case of St. Gabriel’s, it’s nearly $1,000 more per year. However, the archdiocese says it’s offering “transition aid” — as much as $1,000 — to each affected family at St. John’s, provided they enroll in a neighboring Catholic school. But for now, Applewhite and other St. John’s parents are not going down without a fight. She said protesting could be an option in the future, and the parents recently published an online petition to keep the school open. As of July 13, the petition attracted more than 130 signatures. “These students deserve a sense of security of returning to their classrooms with their classmates,” according to the petition, “especially with the uncertainties of the new norm of schools.” Additional reporting by Michael Hinman.
CONSTRUCTION from page A1 is scheduled,” Handschuh said. “The MTA can schedule during the day without any negative side effects.” Handschuh filed a complaint June 17, just before 2 a.m. He was referred to the city’s environmental protection department, which was supposed to contact him within 10 days if “any other information” was needed. It’s been nearly a month, and Handschuh says he hasn’t received a word from anyone. Councilman Andrew Cohen’s office redirected Handschuh to reach out to Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi. Both of those ventures have yet to yield what Handschuh believes is an adequate response. Meredith Daniels, a spokeswoman for the MTA, says any dan complaints received padernaChT in regards to the construction were received and addressed in a timely manner. Work can’t move to the day, because as the city progresses deeper into an economic reopening in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, daytime traffic is on the rise. Kathy Fennessy, who lives in the same building where Handschuh is staying, has become frustrated as well. Like Handschuh, she has made calls to complain, but nobody has called back. It’s gotten to the point where she doesn’t know who to turn to anymore. Many of her neighbors don’t even know why the construction is happening so late at night, and the building managers can’t give her answers either. “It’s hard to get your questions answered when people aren’t calling you back.” Fennessy said. Her sleep has also been affected and, again, it’s the beep-beep-beep of the trucks that are the biggest problem. Even with her windows closed and air conditioners on, Fennessy can still hear the trucks. The construction isn’t the problem. It’s the question of when the noise is finally going to end. Thankfully, there’s some hope. Dan Padernacht, chair of Community Board 8’s traffic and transportation committee is leading the charge to get some answers. Although Daniels says the MTA has shared news and updates about the work with the community board, Padernacht says even he has yet to find many of those answers. Still, he says the community board is the best place to start. “If you want to get to the MTA,” Padernacht said, “we’re going to help you do that.”
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Countless questions, few answers as schools eye reopen Cuomo, de Blasio spar once again over when students return to classroom
‘If it’s not safe for my child, it’s not safe for anyone’s child. If I wasn’t prepared to be a school teacher in that school, I wouldn’t ask anyone else to be a school teacher in that school.’
By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
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A bulletin board outside P.S. 7 Milton Fein School last March declares activities and classes at the school are canceled. At the time, it was believed the closure would only last a month. But Mayor Bill de Blasio, below, hopes to have schools finally reopen in some way come fall — if he can get permission from Gov. Andrew Cuomo first. their own homework regarding specific school reopening plans due to the governor by the end of the month, city comptroller Scott Stringer got a head start. His office released a plan over the weekend he called “Strong Schools for All,” outlining specific proposals and measures which would allow city schools to reopen safely. Those measures include mandating face coverings for everyone as well as physical distancing. He also believes students should be grouped with a small group of kids, and they stay in that group. And just to be safe, there should be pooled testing, aggressive contact tracing and daily temperature scans. Where de Blasio made broad claims, Stringer stressed details, details, details. And according to Dan Gannon, a history teacher at Bronx Leadership Academy II in Concourse Village, de Blasio really needed those details. “It just makes me nervous to see that there’s no specifics,” Gannon said. “It seems a little pie-in-the-sky.” Stringer’s plan outlines specific measures the city’s public schools will likely need in order to reopen safely.
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And while he says they’re all important, it’s doubtful if all can be implemented in every single city school before they are expected to reopen in less than two months. In addition to standard social distancing practices, Stringer recommended each city school needed at least one full-time nurse to reopen —
something not available at 10 percent of the city’s public schools. Stringer also recommended hiring at least one guidance counselor and social worker per school, providing parent support in multiple languages, and giving each student one free internet-connected device for continued remote learning.
Although the emphasis is on returning to in-person instruction, remote learning is not over and done with. de Blasio said in-person instruction would only take place anywhere from one to three days per week, meaning remote learning would make up the rest. But what would these in-person classes look like while the virus is still a threat? According to Paula White, the executive director of the nonprofit Educators for Excellence, it is important for all teachers to set clear rules and expectations from the very first day, especially for younger students, and especially during a pandemic. “We will need to devote more time to that than we have in the past,” White said, “because we have to have our youngest learners understand what is OK, what’s not OK, and how to make it safe.” White also stressed the importance of teacher safety, especially since the city’s education department reported up to 20 percent of them are high-risk for serious complications from the virus that causes COVID-19. Additionally, teaching is a profession notorious for being underfunded, but it can’t remain that way if city schools are to reopen. “We all have that vision in our minds of health care workers who were using black garbage bags as” personal protective equipment, she said. “That’s the kind of thing we cannot have.” Gannon’s school is located in the South Bronx, one of the communities that was hit hardest by the pandemic. While he understands everyone — including him — wants to get back to school as soon as possible, it might do more harm than good if it’s not done right. “Is it worth the life of a child?” Gannon asked. “We’ve already lost a lot of people in our community — family members (and) students — during this time. Are we really looking to do that all over again?”
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A6 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, July 16, 2020
As coronavirus rates fall, anxieties in the community remain on the rise By KIRSTYN BRENDLEN kbrendlen@riverdalepress.com
It’s been nearly four months since New York closed for business, sending millions of students to learn remotely while their parents worked from home — if at all — shuttering restaurants and retail stores, and leaving a visit to the grocery store as the most social activity for many people. While shutting down was the solution for physical health by bringing coronavirus infections and deaths down significantly from a peak in April, it took a toll on the mental health of those closed up inside. “From the perspective of the clients, I feel like they have been mirroring a lot of what I’ve personally been going through,” said Jennifer Hili, a psychotherapist and clinical social worker who practices in Westchester County. Like “just being home with kids, and worrying about the impacts that it’s having on them.” While many have felt stressed and isolated, that burden weighed especially heavily on people in vulnerable populations — particularly senior citizens and those with existing health issues — and people who live alone, without partners or family members. Often, Hili said, those factors overlap — especially for seniors. Even for people who have their families nearby, living in such close quarters for so long can be stressful. “I think a lot of family problems tended to get exacerbated, depending on the nature of it, and there were reports of a lot of increases of domestic violence, of alcohol use,” Hili said. “More important than all of that — or equally as important — people were just really worried — more so in the beginning — being in the epicenter. What it meant (was) if they were going to be able to keep themselves and their families safe.” For her clients who felt isolated, Hili encouraged them to rely on technology to stay connected as Zoom online videoconferencing meetings and quiz nights swept the nation. Still, that proved difficult for some. Julie Dalton, executive director at RSSRiverdale Senior Services, said that as far as those participating in their geriatric mental health program, anxieties shifted as weeks, then months, went by. “It was really about the uncertainty of what’s going to happen and their safety,” she said. “Then as the months have progressed, it kind of shifted a little bit in that some people who were sheltering in place did somewhat have a routine. Those who have internet access and tech skills could connect with us. But then their sense of isolation started to increase as the weeks went on.” Like Hili, Dalton said many seniors live
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Donna Demitri Freidman, executive director of Mosaic Mental Health, says people in general are becoming more anxious as the state slowly reopens in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Even as Mosaic has gone fully remote, Freidman says the clinic has received many more patients scheduling telehealth visits. alone. Even those with local family members were often alone as those same relatives stayed away out of fear of spreading the virus to them. As the city has started to reopen, with thousands piling into the streets to dine outdoors and return to work, it’s been difficult for those same isolated seniors to venture out themselves, since they still remain quite vulnerable to the coronavirus. “We’ve been very frank with them,” Dalton said. “We completely understand, particularly for those that aren’t connected to technology and can’t do the classes, etc., is that they need to also speak to their doctor. They need to follow all the protocols. They need to wear a mask. They need to limit their time out.” One group associated with RSS decided to go out for lunch on Johnson Avenue, socially distancing and wearing masks, Dalton said. They reported it made “a world of difference” to get out in public and see their friends, even with restrictions. While New York City — once the COVID epicenter of the world — has seen record-low infections and deaths, cases are skyrocketing around the country in states that have loosened restrictions. Donna Demitri Freidman, executive director of Mosaic Mental Health in North Riverdale, said anxieties among her clients at Mosaic are rising as they face the prospect of going back to the “real world.” “From the standpoint of just watching
the rest of the country open up some and seeing how really still dangerous it is,” Freidman said. “And what does that look like to social distance and prepare in ways that really are challenging to keep people safe?” Mosaic has welcomed new clients, even as it moved exclusively to video and phone sessions, Freidman said. A lot of it is because people struggle to cope with the realities of facing a global pandemic. “It really depends on the individual,” she said. “For some people, it’s a fear that this is going to go on and on, and the uncertainty of it. For other people, it’s the fear and anxiety about getting the virus. For other people, it’s been the financial challenges they’re facing. For other people it’s fear and concern for people in their life.” In fact, Freidman believes this pandemic will likely turn out to be one of the biggest mental health crises the country has ever seen. While the threat of closures looms as other states struggle to maintain lower infection rates, Hili sees the silver lining as New Yorkers get a break from being locked up. Still she believes people should take precautions while they go about their seminormal lives, and prepare for a time when restrictions might be put back in place. “I know it’s really a difficult balance, but that is the difficult balance,” Hili said. “To try to be in the present and enjoy the days we have, keeping in mind that there might be another time when we go through that difficulty.”
HEALTH NOTES By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE Montefiore receives addiction care grant People should get the treatment they need, no matter what it is, and the Montefiore Medical Center has a new tool to help provide just that. With the founding of its Montefiore-Einstein Addiction Fellowship to expand substance abuse disorder treatment throughout the borough last year, the center picked up a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help train and assist physicians like Dr. Shadi Nahvi, director of the fellowship, in treating those with substance abuse issues. “We are proud of our longestablished programs,” Nahvi said, in a release. “But now more than ever, we need to increase the number of physicians equipped to treat those with substance use disorders and (enhance) our presence in community-based settings.” Training for the fellows will occur at the Montefiore Einstein Division of Substance Abuse among other clinical settings designed to assist physicians in the analyses of both opioid and alcohol addiction. Doctors will bring their new expertise to treatment teams such as counselors, social workers and nursing homes. BronxWorks, the Harm Reduction Coalition, and other community-based organizations designed to assist those in need will partner with the fellows. Doctors will use buprenorphine, a drug which nullifies opioid withdrawal symptoms. “Our hope,” Nahvi said, “is that by partnering closely with our community, our addictions medicine fellows can become change agents, and rethink how to deliver the best care possible during this pandemic and well into the future.”
Impoverished communities at risk for COVID-19 Researchers from NewYorkPresbyterian Allen Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center conducted a
specialized study with nearly 400 women from a wide range of socioeconomic classes who gave birth at the hospitals beginning March 22. The study’s lead physician, Alexander Melamed of Columbia University’s Vagelos College, detailed a definitive connection between poverty and risk for contracting the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2. “Our study shows that neighborhood socioeconomic status and household crowding are strongly associated with risks of infection,” Melamed said, in a release. “This may explain why Black and Hispanic people living in these neighborhoods are disproportionately at risk for contracting the virus.” The researchers examined the relationship between risk of infection and neighborhood characteristics through the women who gave birth at Allen Hospital or Irving Medical Center during the peak of the pandemic in the city. Among the many risk factors, the study found, were poverty and those who lived in households containing a high number of inhabitants were three times more likely to be infected with the virus. Co-author of the study, Dr. Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, maintains a stark difference between overall urban density and household population. “New York City has the highest population density of any city in the United States,” Gyamfi-Bannerman said, in a release. “But our study found that the risks are related more to density in people’s domestic environments rather than density in city or within neighborhoods.” To combat the immediate public health issues, the study suggests a direct method. “The knowledge that SARSCoV-2 infection rates are higher in disadvantaged neighborhoods and among people who live in crowded households could help public health officials target preventive measures,” Melamed said, “like distributing masks or culturally educational information to these populations.”
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Tales from the neighborhood arrive online The best stories aren’t just told from afar — they can come from places as close as next door
‘I’m not a psychologist, but I’m a reader and a librarian. We read for fulfillment, inspiration, knowledge. We’re drawn to stories as human beings. Sometimes, it’s to escape.’ — Andrew Medlar
By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE rlassauze@riverdalepress.com
Every year, and every holiday, the New York Public Library releases a top 10 list of books patrons have checked out the most. Now, however, days may feel like weeks, and holidays may seem far-off and imaginary. Books are gathering dust in the Riverdale Library. Yet the stories themselves are still available to the public. Anyone with a library card can access more than 300,000 e-books via the library system’s app, SimplyE. Andrew Medlar, librarian and director of Book Ops — an organization that circulates the books needed for the library’s collections — believes that readers of all ages need stories now more than ever. “I’m not a psychologist, but I’m a reader and a librarian,” Medlar said. “We read for fulfillment, inspiration, knowledge. We’re drawn to stories as human beings. Sometimes, it’s to escape.” While there are numerous types of media which provide escape — and reading may not be the most popular choice in the age of Netflix — Medlar asserts that e-book checkouts are up 10 percent since 2018, and people are reading more.
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Adult librarian Helene Samberg, right, volunteered for the New York Public Library’s Community Oral History Project, which documents the personal stories of people across the city. Interviews with numerous individuals are now accessible via the project’s website. it was found that the most popular book being checked out was Michelle Obama’s “Becoming,” which discusses her history, her time in the White House, and her story of being a mother. “That is a great example of that in-
“There’s something more personal and intimate about reading,” Medlar said. “The thing with TV right now is that you’d see the news, too. An e-book may be on a screen, but it’d hold your attention more.” During the coronavirus shutdown,
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Libraries across the city have closed in order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, but former patrons of branches like the Riverdale Library can continue enjoying the books with NYPL’s e-reader app SimplyE.
spiration,” Medlar said. “This kind of story is so important.” Naturally, literature in all its myriad forms is available thanks to e-book providers. However, there is another form of literature and storytelling altogether — one that can be found just outside the window. The New York library system’s Community Oral History Project has reached out to everyday people to hear stories of themselves and their neighborhoods — places ranging from Sandy Grounds in Staten Island, Roosevelt Island, and the Lower East Side. Of course, there’s also one for the many neighborhoods that constitute the Northwest Bronx: “Remembering Riverdale.” The story of how Alexandra Kelly, former manager of the library system’s adult programming, began that project is an oral history all its own. “There was a discussion in the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village,” Kelly said. “There were all these different stories from all the longtime residents. I realized that local history is something that should be told by the people who lived there.” Kelly credits listening to those everyday people as well as her master’s degree in communications from The New School as the tools she needed to curate a method of interviewing the historic lifeblood of neighborhoods in the country’s largest city. “I understood that the focus on local history before was from an expert’s
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Author provides voice where there’s otherwise silence By RAPHAEL LASSAUZE
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Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa, right, worked with husband Jonathan to curate the ‘Artists After Maria,’ an art exhibition from this past fall showcasing and presenting how Hurricane Maria affected the lives of Puerto Ricans on the island and abroad. space where accounts like her own were needed. “As I matured, I understood that we all have stories to tell,” LlanosFigueroa said. “But for an Afro-Puerto Rican woman and women, our stories were not being told. And if they were, they weren’t being told by us. I felt it was a niche necessary to fill.” As a self-described “product of the Bronx,” her home borough is where early recognition for her short stories and memoir sketches began. In 1995, she received the Artists for Community Enrichment Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and was invited to attend the Caribbean Writer’s Conference that same year. As the years went on, Llanos-Figueroa considered
it necessary to take part in another local contribution to literature: the Bronx Memoir Project. “After I did a few workshops with the council, I heard what the memoir project was doing,” she said. “So much of it contributed to the voices of the people that live here in a way that no one else was really paying attention to.” For decades, Llanos-Figueroa has cultivated and nurtured the literature of the borough, from herself and fellow voices she feels are otherized, voices she feels are hidden away and disregarded. In 2009, she published her debut novel, “Daughters of the Stone,” chronicling five generations of Afro-Puerto Rican women, reaching
from the sugar plantations of colonial Puerto Rico to the streets of New York in a time of great cultural, political and social upheaval. “I wanted to give voice to my ancestors,” Llanos-Figueroa said. “Each succeeding generation, we get closer to me, from African religion, to the Spanish, then to literacy, then public literacy, then public storytelling. That’s me.” The scope and goal of LlanosFigueroa’s work, along with a writing style regarded as lyrical, powerful and intricate, drew the attention of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, which named the novel a finalist. Through writing, Llanos-Figueroa hopes to provide the world with a
WHAT’S IN / WHAT’S ON Yonkers museum begins reopening
The Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., reopens to the public Saturday, July 25. Capacity is limited to 40 people, and timed entry tickets and reservations are required. Upcoming events include: • A tango night, featuring bassist and composer Pedro Girando, on Saturday, Aug. 1 at 8 p.m. For information, visit HRM. org.
Soul and song online
The Bronx Council on the Arts presents virtual music performances and lectures via the Zoom videoconferencing app. Upcoming events include: • A soul music celebration with the Morrisania Band Project on Saturday, July 18 at 7 p.m. Registration is required. For information, visit BronxArts.org.
Toast to the Toastmasters
The Bronx Toastmasters Club of Riverdale meets Wednesday, July 22 at 7:30 p.m., via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For more information, visit BronxToastmastersClub.org.
Putting money in filmmakers’ pockets
Inwood Art Works’ filmmakers fund opens submissions for its $5,000 grants through Friday, July 31, serving filmmakers from Inwood, Washington Heights, Marble Hill, Kingsbridge and Riverdale.
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The money is used to produce a film, which would then be presented at the 2021 Inwood Film Festival. For guidelines and more information, visit InwoodArtWorks.nyc.
The garden beyond the screen
The New York Botanical Garden opens its virtual gates with “The Garden at Home,” a project where the entire garden — from its programs to tours of the spring landscape — is available online. Events include: • A spring walk among the garden’s recently bloomed daffodils. • A virtual tour of the orchid show: Jeff Leatham’s “Kaleidoscope,” hosted by senior orchid curator Marc Hachadourian. For more information, visit NYBG.org.
RSS continues events online
RSS-Riverdale Senior Services continues to provide mentally and physically engaging activities online via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. Upcoming events include: • A lecture on Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” on Thursday, July 16 at 10 a.m. For more information, visit RSSNY.org.
Musical healing with RSS
The Flume Ensemble, a string group composed of students from Riverdale Country School, teams up with RSS-
Riverdale Senior Services for a free virtual concert Sunday, July 26 at 6 p.m. The group will perform pop culture pieces such as “Yesterday” by The Beatles, “You Are My Sunshine” from Johnny Cash, and more via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For more information, visit RSSNY.org.
Hometown art gallery reopens
Elisa Contemporary Art Gallery, 5622 Mosholu Ave., reopens with safety measures in place to present its “Dive In 2020” art exhibit through Wednesday, Sept. 2. Artists include Carol Bennett and Martha Hughes. For more information, visit ElisaContemporaryArtGallery. com.
Wave Hill brings birds, comics home
Wave Hill has brought its garden activities to the virtual world including biomimicry comic strip workshops and community science bird counts, along with other family activities. Classes and activities include: • Virtual yoga classes with Susie Caramanica every Sunday at 9:30 a.m., via the Zoom online videoconferencing app. For more information, visit WaveHill.org.
remote programs and classes to keep what has become a quarantined community engaged and prepared. Classes include: • An after-school program for families with children 10 and younger • Remote support for families transitioning to online courses and activities For more information, visit RiverdaleOnline.org.
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Art created in pandemic
The Riverdale Art Association presents its new online art gallery, “Art in a Time of Quarantine,” featuring work by Doris Cordero, Maria Formoso, and Thomas Maceranka. For more information, visit RiverdaleArtAssociation.org.
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After petition, no word on Barr’s ‘distinguished’ fate By ROSE BRENNAN rbrennan@riverdalepress.com
It’s not every day someone tries to revoke a Distinguished Achievement Award at Horace Mann School. In fact, from what Nick Perry can recall, it hasn’t been done in his 15 years as a teacher there. And yet, it’s what recent graduates Jessica Rosberger and Kiara Royer are hoping to do, at least when it comes to the private school’s 2011 recipient, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who graduated from Horace Mann in 1967. When Barr received the award, his crowning achievement was serving as attorney general for President George H.W. Bush between 1991 and 1993. But Barr returned to his old post eight years after being honored to join the Trump administration in what has become a highly controversial tenure. Of all the things that have riled up political opponents and government watchdogs, Rosberger and Royer have a specific bone to pick with Barr. On June 1, protesters gathered in Washington’s Lafayette Square to protest the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. The demonstration was largely peaceful — that is, until law enforcement shot tear gas and rubber bullets at the protesters, reportedly under Barr’s orders. The clearing of the protesters ultimately allowed President Trump to walk across that area near the White House to a historic church for what many called a photo-op. Rosberger and Royer viewed Barr’s actions at Lafayette Square as the final nail in the coffin, believing that alone should disqualify him from a “distinguished” alumni distinction. As a result, the two posted an online petition calling for the school to rethink Barr’s status. As of July 13, the petition has
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Notable artists, scientists, entertainers and government officials have received the Horace Mann alumni council’s Distinguished Achievement Award. U.S. Attorney General William Barr won the award in 2011, but others at Horace Mann are asking for the council to reconsider his distinction. more than 8,700 signatures. But even with the internet’s response, it was radio silence from Horace Mann’s alumni council, which has the power to actually remove Barr’s distinction. The group’s last public statement was June 6. It was three sentences long and promised to “consider the issues thoroughly and sensitively.” But for Royer, this promise essentially communicates nothing, including where the council is in its deliberation
process and what steps it might take. “The majority of the signatories are students, faculty, alumni, parents (and) people affiliated with the school, and they’re all wondering what the council’s deliberations are,” Royer said. “The fact they haven’t really publicly spoken about what they’re thinking is definitely frustrating for us.” Perry, a math teacher at Horace Mann, taught both Rosberger and Royer. While he’s not familiar with the alumni council or its deliberation
processes, he sees how their recent inaction can be troubling for those demanding action. “I can also understand the frustration when a student thinks they’ve found a space where the values they learned from a school don’t match up with its actions,” Perry added. But what are these values the alumni council are supposedly contradicting? According to Vivien Sweet, a rising senior at the school and a petition signatory, Barr violated two of Horace
Mann’s core values in his actions at Lafayette Square: mutual respect and mature behavior. “I do take great pride in going to Horace Mann School,” Sweet said, “but to see that school and our alumni council distinguish an alum who clearly does not follow the principles of Horace Mann or represents what Horace Mann is as an institution is really disappointing to see.” The alumni council did not respond requests for comment. Horace Mann isn’t the only school in hot water due to its association with Barr. Rosberger and Royer have been in contact with professors at George Washington University Law School, where Barr received his juris doctorate in 1977. While there’s no petition to revoke Barr’s law degree, 65 of the university’s faculty signed onto a statement condemning the attorney general’s connection to the school. Like Rosberger and Royer’s petition, the statement specifically cited Barr’s actions at the Lafayette Square protest as especially condemning. “At a critical moment in American history, Attorney General Barr could have been a leader in protecting Americans’ First Amendment right to express their outrage at our nation’s long history of institutional racism, and police brutality against people of color,” according to the statement. “Instead, Attorney General Barr stands on the wrong side of history.” At the end of the day, Rosberger, Royer and more than 8,700 online cosignatories don’t believe they’re asking much of the alumni council. “We’d like them to look at Lafayette Square and tell us whether this is a member of our community that we’d like to still remain as ‘distinguished,’” Rosberger said. “We’d like to have the rationale behind whatever decision they come to.”
BUSINESS BRIEFS Brennan promoted to reporting staff Rose Brennan, who since the beginning of the year has been an intern and later a temporary projects reporter for The Riverdale Press, has been promoted to the permanent editorial staff. “Sometimes when you really want to find the best addition to your team, you don’t have to look far at all,” editor Michael Hinman said. “Rose has done
fantastic work for us since joining us as an intern. And I won’t lie, I’ve been a big fan of her reporting since her days at The Quad.” He’s referring to, of course, the student newspaper of Manhattan College, The Quadrangle, which Brennan worked at for four years. She graduated summa cum laude from the school this past May. She served as an intern to The Press this past spring, and in late May, returned to the paper
after a brief hiatus as a special project reporter, spearheading the paper’s limited series salute to Hometown Heroes on the front lines of the coronavirus. In her new position, Brennan will take over the school and transportation desk, preparing for what could be one of the most unique academic years in history on what is hoped to be the other side of the coronavirus pandemic. Outside of the newsroom, Brennan is a voracious reader,
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Montefiore nurses honored by UHF
Three registered nurses from Montefiore Medical Center were among more than 60 health care professionals honored by the United Hospital Fund as “extraordinary quality improvement leaders.”
At Montefiore, those given the honor include: • Mary Ellen Lindros, director of professional practice and a nursing quality officer • Maryanne Schmid, senior director of quality management • Elizabeth Duthrie, director of patient safety in the network performance group The honors were part of UHF’s second annual Tribute to Excellence in Health Care, recognizing their personal efforts to champion quality of
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Always open, parks like Vannie can now offer a little more hard for many parents to keep their children entertained inside. Now that restrictions are easing up, Jen Laurie is making sure her kids spend as much time outside as possible — wearing their face masks of course. Her two children, John and Kelly, have been playing in the sports league for a few years. Not being able to play on their respective teams has been a huge social loss for them. “We tried to fill our time with bike rides and walks,” Laurie said. “But nothing compares to the social aspect of playing on a team.” The kids are out now, she said. They’re shooting hoops and playing catch and slowly starting to interact with other kids again. It’s been rough, but physical activity is important to Laurie and she strives to make sure her children know that. Her daughter Kelly had been excited to play on her softball team, so it hurts that she can’t. The league hopes to start up again in the fall, Laurie said, but she’s unsure if the younger children will be able to participate. The younger they are, the harder it is for them to socially distance, she says. But it’s important to get most of the kids back onto the field, especially the girls. Despite any disappointments she had, Laurie aims to look at the positives of her situation. She and her husband were able to spend more time with their kids that they normally would have since they volunteer so much of their time with the league. “It was weird not to be at the ball field every day,” she said. “But you got to stay positive in these situations. We’ll be back at the field soon.”
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Throughout the pandemic, New York City parks have remained open, becoming a haven for those escaping their homes and looking for a little bit of exercise. As the city prepares to enter what is hoped to be the final phases of its economic reopening plan, the city’s parks department continues to urge visitors to continue practicing social distancing measures and maintain six feet between one another. And now, just in time for summer, more park facilities are reopening like dog runs, skate areas, grilling, playgrounds and most golf courses. To make sure people are keeping the coronavirus pandemic in mind, patrol officers and urban park rangers will joined so-called “social distancing ambassadors” to enforce the rules, parks spokesman Dan Kastanis said. On top of that, 15 public pools will be open July 24, with another 15 coming online by Aug. 1. That won’t include the pool at Van Cortlandt Park, however, meaning swimmers will have to settle for the pools at Crotona and Haffen parks. Why those pools and not Vannie? The criteria for reopening pools is based on several factors, Kastanis said, including giving preference to pools located in neighborhoods heavily impacted by the coronavirus. Also, some pool areas were repurposed into testing or food distribution sites. Despite the reopenings, many park programs remain canceled. Baseball fields and basketball courts are open for recreational use, but team sports and tournaments are prohibited.
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More people are flocking to Van Cortlandt Park as recreational facilities begin to reopen. Fishing at the park’s 18-acre lake, at least in the past, was a popular activity. Enthusiasts are expected to practice proper social distancing measures if they plan to bring their poles this summer. The news is a disappointing yet expected blow to Maureen Carey-Kelly, who runs the North Riverdale Baseball League. The 2020 season was supposed to start in early April, but was postponed because of the pandemic, before cancelling the season altogether.
“We’re not supposed to be using the field at all,” Carey-Kelly said. “And parks won’t issue any permits.” The parks department is accepting until the end of this month field and court applications for the fall, a season which begins Sept. 1. Carey-Kelly has kept in contact with the parks depart-
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POLITICAL ARENA Bowman decries recent gun violence July has been a pretty dangerous time for people living and working in New York City — and the presumptive Democratic nominee for Congressional District 16 has taken notice. Gun violence last weekend jumped 277 percent compared to last year, creating 28 victims out of 22 shootings, including a 1-year-old sitting in his stroller near a playground in BedfordStuyvesant. “We have to stop everything and come together at the table to get serious about solving the senseless violence in our com-
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munities and finally centering (on) the lives of our children and our babies who are dying in the streets,” said Jamaal Bowman, in a release. “On a personal note as a father, I hate that when I’m driving with my children in the car that I have to think about a stray bullet coming in and killing my child. I hate it.” Still, Bowman — who likely beat incumbent U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel in the June primary — said he isn’t blaming the different neighborhoods themselves that have had an uptick in violence. “The problem is systemic,” he said. “Our communities have been neglected for decades,
failed by the government at every level. It’s not just about those who are pulling the triggers, but the elected leaders who have yet to take on the ongoing problems of systemic injustice.” However that’s done, it can’t be by throwing more money at police, Bowman said. “If we’re going to break the cycle of violence, our response can’t be centered on law enforcement since we’ve seen how that only exacerbates the problem,” Bowman said. “I’m talking about directing resources to help the community leaders who have been doing the work on the ground.”
Haller makes loud entry into race Jessica Haller is trying to catch up to the hefty campaign chests a couple of her competitors have raised in what is expected to be a crowded field looking to replace Councilman Andrew Cohen next year. Haller raised more than $55,000 from more than 425 donors in her first campaign finance filing period, according to a release. That means she can expect to have as much as $220,000 available to her in a year when matching funds become available. “I am honored to have the
support of so many people, specifically in the district, in the midst of unprecedented public health, economic and social justice crises,” Haller said, in a release. “With the pandemic hitting shortly after our campaign was launched, I am proud that we were able to quickly devise an online strategy that mobilized hundreds of donors and volunteers committed to a sustainable, resilient and equitable New York.” Neither Eric Dinowitz or Dan Padernacht have filed campaign finance updates for July. As of Jan. 11, based on their most recent filings, Dinowitz
raised just under $71,000 from more than 300 contributors. Padernacht has raised $56,000 from 386 donors. A third candidate in the race, one-time Riverdale Press intern Dionel Then, has raised $1,320 from 21 contributors through July 11. Dinowitz is a school teacher and son of Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz. Padernacht is a Kingsbridge Heights real estate attorney who is a former chair of Community Board 8. Haller is a climate activist who also is a LEED-accredited professional with the U.S. Green Building Council.
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A12 - THE RIVERDALE PRESS - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Opinion
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Editorial
Look up: The sky is falling!
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hen the dinosaurs looked up into the sky some 65 million years ago and saw that ball of fire streaking across it, did any of them wonder if they’d be around tomorrow? Maybe the pterodactyls, with their command of the sky, warned their friends below, like the velociraptor or the brachiosaurus, or even the tyrannosaurus rex. But instead of finding a way to survive this impending doom, these dinosaurs shrugged. The Earth is still pretty new. Meteors are a way of life. You win some, you lose some, but we always survive. Except they didn’t. Not this time. And the reign of the dinosaur ended, to be replaced by humans nearly 60 million years later. “If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens,” according to George Bernard Shaw, “how incapable must man be of learning from experience.” If the famous playwright were still with us, we could probably ask if the same is true about prehistory repeating itself, because as far as the local Democratic Party is concerned, that’s exactly what’s happening. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez toppled longtime U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in 2018, who many say was in line to become the next House Speaker. That same year, Alessandra Biaggi decisively defeated state Sen. Jeffrey Klein, who at one point was one of the highestranking lawmakers in Albany. The wins by AOC and Biaggi were flukes, right? Crowley supposedly underestimated how much the national attention on Ocasio-Cortez would power her in that primary. And Biaggi was riding the anti-Trump winds from the party’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election, taking out a man who made his name partnering with the same party as the man now occupying the Oval Office. The pterodactyls said no. But the velociraptors, and the brachiosauruses and the T-rex? They just shrugged. But then we had just this last month.
Despite his own position in the national spotlight as chair of the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee and part of the Trump impeachment team, Eliot Engel lost to a middle school principal with no political experience named Jamaal Bowman. Not far away, Councilman Ruben Diaz Sr. — highly favored by Democrats despite not really being one — lost by a lot to fellow councilman Ritchie Torres. The day after the primary, Assemblyman Marcos Crespo resigned not only his position as chair of the Bronx Democratic Party, but also his seat in Albany. And by this point, Bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr., had already withdrawn any plans of running for mayor once his current — and final — term ends. And then there’s Jeffrey Dinowitz. A longtime Assemblyman and party leader, more recently focused on solidifying his legacy, including a push to have his son replace Andrew Cohen on the city council, standing on the outside, looking in. The political establishment he helped build is collapsing around him, candidates he’s backing aren’t winning the support of other Democrats, and his primary win over George Diaz Jr. — a man who barely campaigned — was far more competitive than it should have been. Dinowitz isn’t shrugging the meteor of change in the sky. He won’t even acknowledge it’s there. And he’s pulling many hardworking, very good Democrats along with him. And that’s not fair to them. We can’t always back winners, and sometimes we’ll lose. But when losses start to outnumber victory, it might be time to consider that maybe it’s not voters in general failing to understand, but that you fail to understand. The Bronx is changing. The Democratic Party is changing. The world is changing. You can either be the meteor ensuring that change happens, or you can be the dinosaurs who refused to accept their new reality.
Letters to the editor
It’s time for some serious change at Skyview center
To the editor:
(re: “Key Food closes — when will it reopen?” July 9)
We are writing to raise the alarm regarding the deteriorating conditions in the Skyview Shopping Center on Riverdale Avenue. These conditions need a response from the owner and management — Nahardale Associates, K.F. Braun Management LLC, Braun Management Inc., and Moses Marx. There has been little investment in the shopping center for decades. Its appearance has deteriorated markedly. Onerous lease terms like high rents and cancelation clauses have pushed valued tenants out of business. And the traffic, parking and pedestrian design is downright unsafe. We have watched with concern as the public — including elderly, disabled and families with strollers — have had to traverse traffic lanes and parking lanes just to shop in the stores. We are saddened to learn that members of the management and ownership team actually live locally. The latest casualty is now the primary supermarket for Riverdale ZIP code 10471: Key Food. The shopping center owner and management have not responded directly to inquiries about the plans for this space, vaguely stating that a new owner or operator will come in after some weeks of renovation. In the meantime, more than 25,000 residents are without a major supermarket. As of July 10, a sign reads “opening soon under new management.” If and when a supermar-
ket returns, however, it is likely to be occupying the same deteriorated store and shopping center. These are problems that began before the COVID-19 pandemic and supermarket closure. We stayed quiet out of respect for the wonderful businesses that continue to occupy the shopping center. But this latest closure leaves us with no other choice but to speak out. Elected officials and community leaders will work together over the summer to develop ideas to respond. We believe that a vibrant and middleincome community like Riverdale can support a dynamic shopping center and supermarket with the right design, ownership and management. We implore the owners and management of the shopping center and supermarket to take action to address these concerns. While we consider further responses this summer, we welcome suggestions at riverdalemainstreetalliance@gmail.com, and ask residents to continue to support and patronize all the excellent stores and restaurants in the shopping center and throughout the community. And we want to assure the community that we stand with it in demanding a major change. Andrew Cohen, Jeffrey dinowiTz & Chris rizzo Cohen is a city councilman and Dinowitz is an Assemblyman who represents North Riverdale, where Skyview Shopping Center is located. Rizzo represents the board of directors of the Riverdale Main Streets Alliance.
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Message is simply anti-racist To the editor:
(re: “It can happen in Germany, it can happen here, too,” July 2)
Alvin Gordon’s Point of View piece is a mashup of untruths, distortions, exaggerations. He writes, “Who the hell does Black Lives Matter think it is to insist that only the lives of Black people matter?” I have never seen such an absurd statement uttered by folks who support Black Lives Matter. He then declares that such a statement — which he invented — as a “racist position, pure and simple.” He continues that “the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a lie.” Let’s give that a moment’s thought, shall we? Is Mr. Gordon suggesting that Black lives don’t matter? If they do, how can that “slogan” be a lie? Notice, it doesn’t state that only Black lives matter. He continues, “Not all Black lives matter to that organization.” First, we need to establish that the movement which supports and advocates for Black lives matter is extremely diverse, and includes many white folks, Asians, Latinos and others. Black Lives Mater is an extremely broad, loosely aligned movement/network of those who oppose state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black, institutionalized racism. There is not a singular platform, nor are there designated leaders. No one “speaks for” Black Lives Matter. Second, to suggest that not all Black lives matter to Black Lives Matter is, in and of itself, a racist, gratuitous, ignorant, highly insulting and deeply offensive comment which is obviously meant to infuriate those engaged in the struggle against racism, a dog whistle to signal fellow racists.
Standing up for good To the editor: Today, Riverdale Neighborhood House and Riverdale Community Center stand in solidarity with the Black community, and all who are demanding accountability and peacefully protesting for justice and change. We are full of grief at the racial violence continuing throughout the country. Racism is a public health crisis. The systemic inequities that plague our country are made painfully clear by the acts of violence against the black community that we have witnessed in the horrific murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, among so many others.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Mr. Gordon would claim that all Jewish lives don’t matter to me if I take exception with efforts in Israel to unilaterally annex major sections of the West Bank. Many millions of people all across America and across the world have joined in protests against racism and police brutality. Without a doubt, some of those protests unfortunately involved a degree of violence — the overwhelming majority did not. Some of that violence may have been unnecessarily police-provoked, or even worse, provoked by President Trump when he ordered troops to assault peaceful protesters so that he could take a photo-op in front of a church in Washington. Some may have been provoked by agentsprovocateurs. Some engaged in looting may well have been opportunistic hustlers unconnected to the antiracist movement. The Black Lives Matter movement is non-violent. The same cannot be said for the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, fascists or ultra-right wing militias. Just as we should all be anti-fascist, anti-KKK, anti-neo-Nazis, we should all be anti-racist. My job as a privileged white person is to educate the white community about the history of racism in our nation, the continuing enormous cost to our nation of this sickness, which has infected us for hundreds of years, and to try to counteract the kind of poison being spread by the likes of Alvin Gordon. normAn weChsler The author is a former principal at DeWitt Clinton High School, and a former superintendent for Bronx high schools with the city’s education department.
Riverdale Neighborhood House is proud to be part of the vibrant history of New York’s settlement house movement. New York’s settlement houses have been progressive leaders in the state for more than a century. Riverdale Neighborhood House, independently and as part of the larger movement, continues to speak out against racial injustices while building inclusive communities. Riverdale Neighborhood House and Riverdale Community Center are committed to valuing and supporting communities of color in the work we do every day. Thank you for standing with us. mArCiA sAnToni The author is executive director of Riverdale Neighborhood House and Riverdale Community Center.
Late praise for Engel To the editor: Congressman Eliot Engel has a long and distinguished record of service to his district, his state and his country. Politico talked of his committee leadership racking up quiet wins for accountability against the Trump administration. Congressional Quarterly said years ago that for a district as diverse as his, support for human rights abroad was “a form of constituent service.” He has been consistently progressive on a host of issues, ranging from choice to LGBTQ rights to support for action on climate change. AnThony PorCo
Embracing a more concrete reality To the editor:
(re: “It can happen in Germany, it can happen here, too,” July 2)
The recent Point of View by Alvin Gordon is so filled with distortions and hysteria that it is hard to know where to begin. He labels the Black Lives Matter movement as thuggish, fascistic and radical leftist. He states, “Who the hell does Black Lives Matter think it is to insist that only the lives of Black people matter?” The first problem is that while there is a formal organization under that heading, the term applies to a broad-based, heterogeneous, decentralized movement of people concerned about racism in this country, similar to the civil rights movements in the 1960s. What would it mean to say, “Who the hell does the civil rights movement think it is?” Nonsensical. Secondly, I have never heard anyone supporting the movement say that other lives don’t matter. The slogan essentially means Black lives matter too. “All lives matter” statements, though true, have become a way of diluting and dismissing the call for racial justice by burying it in a meaningless truism. Of course all lives matter. But imagine a movement in Europe in the early 1930s, as hatred and
discrimination was building toward an eventual Holocaust, saying Jewish lives matter. I doubt that Mr. Gordon would want that to be buried into an “all lives matter” truism. Finally, there are a wide variety of political views — about the police, about the nature of protests, about other nations and groups of people (Israelis, Palestinians, etc.). The movement is not characterized by any particular fringe. I am sure that some people protesting support boycotts of Israel. I am also sure that there are ardent Zionists. (Like all movements for social justice, there are many Jews, such as myself.) And there will also always be crazy, evil people attaching themselves to mass movements, and protests often lead to some opportunistically using for their own benefit, such as looting — which movement leaders try to stop. Characterizing the movement by such people is a distortion of reality only used to discredit it and to undermine the call for racial justice. Gordon concludes: “It happened in Germany. It can happen here.” Genocide against Jews led by or enabled by the Black Lives Matter movement is a paranoid fantasy. Having 40 million Americans being treated as less than fully human — and wanting to change that — is a concrete reality. PeTer wolf
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government accountable. There is no one to shine a light on problems that can be corrected. There is no one to sound the alarm when something bad is coming. Sure, social media like Facebook and Twitter can help — but only for a quick flash before other topics quickly push it out of sight and out of mind, as many try to speak at once. And rumors don’t answer questions — good journalism does. How can you help? You’re doing it right now by reading this newspaper, especially if you’re holding our print edition in your hands. By buying it on a newsstand, or subscribing so that it arrives on your doorstep or mailbox. By letting us know when something’s happening in your neighborhood, sharing your opinion, or telling us when you like what we’re doing, or when you don’t.
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West oF parKWay Web #846 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house features a living room with bay windows and marble WBF, dining room with sliding glass doors to large level backyard, eat-in kitchen, MBR suite & den with a wet bar. 2-car garage plus plenty of off street parking. $1,549,000
West oF the parKWay Web #856 Classic 3-bdrm, 2.5-bath house features a center hall, living rm with WBF, formal dining rm and eat-in kitch. $1,200,000
NeW exclusive south riverdale Web #871 Spacious 4-bdrm, 2.5-bath house with living room with WBFP, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,595,000
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exclusive ceNtral riverdale Web #865 New Construction: 2-Family Townhouse w/ 4-bdrm duplex over 1-bdrm w/ deck & level, grassy backyard. $1,275,000
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FieldstoN Web #848 Rare opportunity vacant land of over a third of an acre with R1-2 Zoning to build exactly the house you need. $1,200,000
FieldstoN Web #844 Classic & Elegant 4-bdrm, 3.5-bath with abundant French doors leading out to expansive front terrace, a stone patio, an open, shady side porch and a level grassy yard. Living room with WBFP, formal dining room and eat-in kitchen. $1,895,000
vaN cortlaNdt crest Web #869 Spacious 7-bdrm, 3-full and 2 half bath Tudor-Style house with grassy yard on double lot along tree lined st. $825,000
exclusive estate area Web #855 7-bdrm, 5.5-bath newly built house with open-plan living rm, dining rm, centerisland kitchen and patios. $2,295,000
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445 West 240th st Web #cc637 Postwar 2-bdrm condo with large entry foyer, living room, windowed kitchen, dining area and hrdwd flrs. $399,000
3875 Waldo aveNue Web #cc640 Charming and updated Jr4 with large dining foyer, sunken living room and windowed dining room. $249,000
5715 mosholu aveNue Web #cc635 Bright L-shaped 2-bdrm postwar co-op. Hrdwd flrs, South & West expos. Top flr corner unit. $219,000
3515 heNry hudsoN prKWy #cc638 Spacious 3-bdrm, 2-bath corner unit w/ large entry foyer, renovated kitchen, parquet floors and balcony. $649,000
ceNtral riverdale Web #cc642 Bright 2-bdrm, 2-bath co-op with balcony and doorman. Professionally soundproofed music room. $439,000
ceNtral riverdale Web #cc643 Contemporary Condo with balcony, modern kitchen, laundry in unit, DM and indoor parking. $695,000
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3875 Waldo ave cc639 Spacious and charming Jr4 corner unit w/ lrg dining foyer and widowed dining area. $249K
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FieldstoN vic. rr641 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+ sq. ft. Multiple porches, swimming pool. 4-car garage. $21,000/mo
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FieldstoN vic. rr877 7-bdrm, 7-full & 3 half-bth 11,000 sq. ft. house w/ lrg entry hall & FDR. $21,000/mo
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FieldstoN vic. rr642 6-bdrm, 3.5-bath, 7,500 sq. ft. house w/ Expansive wraparound porch & pool. $22,500/mo
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West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. $3,595/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury renovated 2-bdrm, 2-bath with doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. $3,395/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury spacious Jr4, balcony, 24-hr doorman, health club w/ pool. 1 month free rent $2,925/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath, 24-hr doorman, pool & tennis courts. 1 month free rent $2,795/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury large 1-bdrm with river views. 24-hr doorman, gym w/ pool. 1 month free rent $2,725/mo West oF parKWay - Luxury 1-bdrm with balcony, door$2,295/mo man, tennis courts and fitness room. West oF parKWay - Luxury studio in 24-hr doorman building with pool and tennis courts. 1 month free rent $1,850/mo
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West oF parKWay - 3-bdrm, 2-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $515K West oF parKWay - 2-bdrm, 1.5-bath, w/ balcony, L-shaped LR/DR area, DM, fitness room, private playground and childrens recreation room. Dogs OK. Indoor parking available. $420K sold - North riverdale - Renov Jr-4 with entry foyer NeW exclusive living rm, dining rm and windowed eat-in kitchen. $299K 3636 FieldstoN rd cc641 sold - ceNtral riverdale - Newly renov studio with Updated studio on second hrdwd flrs, seperate kitchen and sleeping area. $185K floor with separate kitchen and sleeping area. $175K
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555 KappocK st cc605 Bright 1-bdrm with dining area, C/A/C, Hudson River view and 24-hr DM. $179K
290 West 232Nd st cc626 2-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, kitchen, dining area and balcony. $329K
3601 JohNsoN ave. cc587 Walk-in level doctor’s office with seperate entrance and reception area. $295K
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FieldstoN vic. rr878 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath w/ entry vestibule, living room w/ frplc, eat-in kitchen. $18,500/mo
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FieldstoN vic. rr655 Grand 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+ sq. ft. Private swimming pool. 3-car garage. $17,500/mo
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West oF parKWay rr704 Charming 4-bdrm, 3-bth. Living room w/ fireplace, eat-in kitch & finished basement. $6,900/mo
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4455-65 douGlas cc622 3755 hh pKWay - the imperial - Walk-in level doctor’s Spacious Townhouse with office with reception area and 2 exam rooms. $360K 3-bdrms, 3.5bths, sunken North riverdale - Office Space Available. $1,500/mo LR, WBFP & patio. $1.699K
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3530 hh parKWay cc628 Huge 3-bdrm conv 4, 2-bath at Parkway House. Low floor, high ceilings. $649K
3875 Waldo ave. cc636 Charming 1-bdrm with entry foyer, sunken living rm & windowed kitchen. $295K
3755 hh parKWay cc623 Spacious 1-bdrm with entry foyer, living room, renov kitch & dining area. $199K
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pet-FrieNdly reNtals West oF parKWay - Spacious and bright 3-bdrm, 2-bath, sunset balcony, D/M, fitness. Dogs ok. $3,300/mo GreystoNe aveNue - 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath with dining area and yard in multi-family house. $2,800/mo reNted - West oF parKWay - 2-bdrm, 2-bath, sunset $2,400/mo balcony, doorman & fitness room. Dogs OK.
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exclusive 5355 hh parKWay Updated Jr-4 with balcony, living rm, rm and eat-in kitch.
cc634 sunrise dining $279K
5355 hh parKWay cc629 Renovated Jr-4, living room, dining room & eat-in kitch. No board approval. $299K
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