Vol. 76, No. 32
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Thursday, August 6, 2026
Rat infestation in Van Cortlandt Village By Olivia Young and Emma Alvarado oyoung@riverdalepress.com
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At 3991 Saxon Ave., a two-year-old building in Van Cortlandt Village, rats scurry across the street in broad daylight as tenants and neighbors plead for a solution. For several months, residents at both 3991 Saxon Ave. and 74 Van Cortlandt S., an Amalgamated Housing Cooperative building next door, documented what they call an infestation. Fed up, a dozen of these residents held a press conference July 30 with Council member Eric Dinowitz and Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz, demanding action from city agencies and 3991 Saxon Ave.’s building management company. The management company, Alliah Man-
agement, did not respond to requests for comment. The Dinowitzes sent a letter July 31 to management agent Nate Ruby and the property owner listed in city records, Solomon Schwimmer, urging them to work together to resolve the issue. Ruby did not respond to requests for comment and Schwimmer could not be reached for comment. According to a notice posted inside 3991 Saxon Ave., signed “Building Management,” the pest problem was attributed to garbage being left on the sidewalk. Management opened the garbage rooms on each floor for tenant use about a month ago, said Adaysha Givens, a tenant who moved from East Harlem in 2024. Still, the rats persist.
For Givens, who is a student at Lehman College and a mom of two young kids, the rodents were the final push for her to start the moving out process. She told The Press she sees the rats daily, and sometimes hears them scuddling underneath leaves near her back window. Cracks and gaps between 3991 Saxon Ave.’s building structure and the ground were an inviting place for rats to nest, Amalgamated residents said, creating what they believe is now a full-fledged burrow that has spread to the side of their building, too. Videos Givens and Amalgamated residents shared with The Press show the rodents, often in groups, scampering over trash bags, running across the sidewalk and under cars, and dragging food remnants
back toward their burrow. Givens is enrolled in a rental assistance program called City Fighting Homelessness and Eviction Prevention Supplement, or City FHEPS. She said other tenants in the 3991 Saxon Ave. building are also on a housing voucher program, or are formerly homeless. Most of her neighbors don’t want to speak up, she said, they are just relieved for a place to live and a new opportunity. Givens wanted that too, she said. “This was supposed to be a fresh start for us,” Givens said at the press conference, holding her 3-year-old daughter in her arms. “It’s supposed to be hard, but not this hard.” Longtime Amalgamated resident DebRATS ON PAGE A4
Windsor Swim Club members seek accountability By Michelle Mullen
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Community gathers for dance event Page A5
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‘Put it on Paper’ Educator releases mindful journal Page A6
The Denishawn House at 67 Stevenson Place served as a modern dance school from 1927 to 1934, led by dancers Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis.
Denishawn House demo nears, community efforts to landmark fail By Michelle Mullen mmullen@riverdalepress.com
‘Overlapping Empires’ Exhibit explores local histories Page A7
The Denishawn House, a former dance school in Van Cortlandt Village, is set to be demolished despite community efforts to save the site by designating it a city landmark. Construction workers were seen on the roof of the 67 Stevenson Place building when The Press visited July 30. One worker said they were doing blacktop removal. Before this, Bronx Community Board 8 received a notice from a consulting company that full demolition would start sometime after July 27. It remains unclear what the site will house in the future. No plans had been submitted to the city as of Aug. 4, aside from an application for a construction fence filed in early July. According to the city’s department of buildings, an additional permit still needs to be filed as the final step before the demolition.
The move to alert the community board was not a complete surprise, as the city’s department of buildings approved demolition in late June. But it is a disappointment to those who pushed for the Denishawn House to be recognized as a landmark, including the community board, New York City-based nonprofit Historic Districts Council and Columbia University Professor of Historic Preservation Andrew Dolkart. “We couldn’t save it,” Dolkart, a historian with a passion for dance, said. “It’s just very upsetting.” Last July, the city’s landmarks preservation commission reviewed the site after the Historic Districts Council submitted a request for evaluation. The commission rejected it, citing substantial alterations to parts of the building connected to its time as a school. Alterations included changes to the windows and the demolition of the doubleheight rehearsal and performance space,
a spokesperson for the commission told The Press. Seven years of operation as a dance school was also considered a relatively short period, the spokesperson added. Ultimately, Denishawn House didn’t have the level of architectural quality and historic significance to be considered. After the first rejection, Dolkart compiled more than a dozen letters of support from nonprofits, professors and executives at major dance institutions — Martha Graham Dance Company, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor Dance Company, Harkness Foundation for Dance and School of American Ballet. But, to no avail, as the commission turned down the site again this past May for the same reasons. Ted Shawn, one of the founders of modern dance in America, and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, established the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related DENISHAWN ON PAGE A4
For much of the summer, The Windsor Apartments of Riverdale’s pool at 4705 Henry Hudson Parkway W. remained locked following a New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene closure, leaving members who paid hundreds of dollars for seasonal access watching the swimming season slip away. Now, weeks after the pool reopened, some members are taking legal action, arguing the 35 percent refund or credit offered by Windsor Apartments, also known as The Windsors Cooperative Apartments, does not adequately compensate them for losing much of the season they paid for. At least one member has filed a claim in Bronx Small Claims Court, and several others told The Press they are preparing to do the same. They argue the Windsor Apartments’s board of directors failed to provide the service they purchased and instead offered what they consider an inadequate refund. The city’s health department issued 10 violations and ordered the pool closed June 16 after inspectors responded to 311 complaints, later clearing it to open on July 18. “The NYC Health Department temporarily closed the swimming pool at The Windsors Cooperative Apartments in the Bronx after an inspection on June 16, 2026, identified that the pool operator was not meeting required chlorination levels, posing a risk to swimmers,” the department told The Press. Inspectors found the pool’s free chlorine level measured zero milligrams per liter while several swimmers were in the water. They also found the pool’s chemical-feeding system was not functioning because chlorine and acid containers connected to the main feeder were empty while operators awaited a chemical delivery. In addition, inspectors determined the pool’s water turnover rate was just 150 gallons per minute — well below the required minimum of 343 gallons per minute. The Windsor Swim Club, located on the grounds of the apartment complex, serves both residents of the cooperative and the public through seasonal memberships that cost about $803 for non-shareholders. It has long been one of Riverdale’s beloved POOL ON PAGE A4
Seemingly abandoned cars plague greater Riverdale By Michelle Mullen mmullen@riverdalepress.com
Across New York City’s 50th Precinct, seemingly abandoned vehicles remain on public streets for weeks, even as 311 reports filed by residents eyeing removal pile up. More than 650 abandoned or derelict vehicle complaints were filed in the 10463 and 10471 ZIP codes between January and August 2026. The Riverdale Press reviewed dozens of complaints and visited the reported locations. At several spots, vehicles were still where residents said they had sat for months despite repeated complaints. Several displayed multiple parking summonses piled up beneath their windshield wipers, typically yellowed and water damaged.
Many bore damage, whether a cracked windshield or dramatic, rusting dents. Some sat on tires long flat, dirt and debris piling up around the wheels. Among them, a white commercial van near 5770 Fieldston Road was reported six times this year alone. Another vehicle on Post Road, parked across from 5235 Post Road, had flat tires, visible body damage and bags of garbage piled inside. One resident said it had not moved since at least January despite numerous 311 complaints. Multiple parking summonses remained tucked beneath the windshield wipers when The Press visited the site July 30. North Riverdale resident Mike Hammond has become one of the neighborhood’s most ABANDONED CARS ON PAGE A4
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Many of the vehicles reported abandoned to 311, like this one on West 262nd Street in North Riverdale, sport significant damage.
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Police said Javid Edwin, a 21-year-old from Yonkers, was arrested at 8:19 Aug. 3 in connection with a July 20 stabbing in front of 3190 Riverdale Ave. Edwin was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a firearm, according to authorities. The victim was identified as 34-year-old Tyrell Scott, who is
from Wakefield, police said. Around 5 p.m. July 20, police responded to a 911 call of a man stabbed in front of 3190 Riverdale Ave. Officers saw a 34-year-old man who had been stabbed in the chest, and the man was taken by officers to Saint Barnabas Hospital in critical condition, police reported. The man died from his injuries July 22, according to police.
Police seek robbery suspect, necklace stolen Police are asking for the public’s help in finding an individual wanted in connection with a robbery. On July 26 around 2:45 p.m. in front of 113 West Kingsbridge Road, an unknown individual on an e-bike approached a 21-year-old woman from behind, police said. The individual snatched the woman’s necklace off of her neck and fled westbound on West Kingsbridge Road, authorities added. Police said the woman sustained minor injuries to her neck but refused medical attention at the scene. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The
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Two suspects wanted in Exterior Street robbery Police are asking for the public’s help in identifying two individuals wanted in connection with a June 13 robbery. At about 3:55 p.m. in front of 2811 Exterior St., two unknown individuals approached a 15-year-old boy, police said. The individuals demanded the boy’s property, which he refused and attempted to run, authorities said. One of the individuals chased the boy and brandished a knife, before taking the boy’s sneakers and headphones, according to police. The individuals fled on foot to parts unknown, police said, and no injuries were reported
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The robbery victim was a 15-year-old boy, police said. as a result of this incident. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline.
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Assembly member Dinowitz on Ewen Park staircase construction The Ewen Park Staircase Reconstruction Project will start Aug. 4, and is set to last about a year, Assembly member Jeffrey Dinowitz said in an Aug. 2 newsletter. According to a 2022 presentation to Bronx Community Board 8, the project will add better lighting to the staircase and make the steps safer and up to code. To accommodate construction, Johnson Avenue between West 231st Street and West
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West Bronx officials support suspension of Fordham Heights lounge liquor license M Lounge Restaurant in Fordham Heights had its liquor license suspended July 24, following a fatal shooting in the basement July 16, according to a July 28 release from Council member Pierina Sanchez. In response to the shooting, Sanchez, state Sen. Gustavo Rivera and other electeds wrote a letter to Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul, demanding legal and administrative action. The tragedy did not occur without warning, as M Lounge has a history of violence, disorder and noncompliance, Sanchez and Rivera wrote.
After M Lounge’s license was suspended, Sanchez and Rivera said it is only the first step to addressing dangerous conditions around the lounge. “Violence is not normal, and we will never accept it as inevitable in the West Bronx,” Sanchez stated. “Every resident deserves to feel safe at home, on their block and in establishments serving their community. Businesses must protect their patrons, operate lawfully and safeguard their neighbors.” When businesses fail, Sanchez said, the government must act decisively.
CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS The article “Invasive water chestnuts are no match for Wetland Wednesdays” in the July 30 edition of The Press incorrectly stated Wetland Wednesday ran for most of the year. It runs from late May to early August. The previous version also stated New Yorks City Department of Parks and Recreation staff took part in Wetland Wednesdays, however only Van Cortlandt Park Alliance staff were involved. The article “A baseball revival blooms across greater Riverdale” in the July 30 edition of The Press incorrectly stated Luca Salanto’s position. Salanto was a left fielder.
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St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel School welcomes new principal By Olivia Young oyoung@riverdalepress.com Regan Haney, a longtime educator and North Riverdale resident since 2019, is St. Margaret of Cortona-St. Gabriel School’s new principal. Haney’s debut comes during a milestone year for the school, as it is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Key parts of her vision involve celebrating a century of SMSG, while also making sure the school can thrive for years to come. Haney has already helped establish an alumni committee, and is planning a spring gala fundraiser in hopes of raising $100,000 to invest back in the school. She also aims to make the school more eco-friendly, potentially by installing solar panels. Born in Kentucky to a mother who was a nurse and a father who worked in construction, Haney said she always knew she would pursue a career in education. Several of her family members were teachers, and it became an influential part of her upbringing. “From day one, I was the kid that was playing ‘teacher’ in their room,” Haney said. She went on to obtain a bachelor’s degree in education from Murray State University in Kentucky, and later a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the State University of New York Empire State University. She also worked as a classroom teacher in Arizona and Massachusetts. Watching a student learn something new or finally grasp a concept is inspiring, Haney said, and it’s why she’s in this line of work. Walking into SMSG, Haney said she is leaning on her recent experience as academic dean at St. Philip Neri School in Bedford Park. She described St. Philip Neri as a school that had yet to reach its full potential, until she worked to introduce multiple new academic programs. She wants to accomplish the same for SMSG. Haney’s kids also attend SMSG. As a parent, she’s seen what previous school leaders have accomplished. SMSG has a strong academic standing, Haney said, but she wants it to be the best. Haney plans on introducing a robotics and coding program,
a new after-school program that provides homework help and athletic activities, more STEM opportunities, and ideally, bring back the science fair. She also hopes to integrate SMSG with the University of Mount Saint Vincent — also a Catholic school, and where her husband works — through partnerships. Her leadership style is rooted in community, Haney explained. She wants SMSG to reflect the sense of neighborhood familiarity she sees in Riverdale, achieved by making sure teachers and parents feel heard, and by involving kids in service projects, she said. For Haney, leading a school is also about being seen, and making sure the kids feel seen. Haney said she hopes to start each day at SMSG with all students gathering in the gym, so she is able to greet them before they head to their classes. “In previous years, they just went straight up to the rooms,” Haney said. “I feel like that’s a missed opportunity for me to get eyes on every kid.” SMSG’s priest, Father Seán Connolley, said it’s fitting to begin a significant year with someone in whom the school has great confidence. Haney, who also attends St. Margaret of Cortona Church, feels like family, Connolley said. Despite changes over a century, whether broad demographic trends or structural adjustments to the building, Connolley said, SMSG remains a constant. “There are certain principles that are unchanging,” Connolley said. “We don’t want a church or the educational philosophy of our school to change with the world, we want to change the world.” SMSG is the product of a 2023 merger between two Catholic schools, according to its website. SMSG grew from a parish school called Lavelle Hall built in 1911 by the pastor at the time. Later, in 1925, pastor Monsignor Joseph Doyle asked the Sisters of Charity to staff SMSG, and it expanded from there, the website said. As the school year nears, Haney is ready to keep SMSG moving forward. “This is my community, this is my kids’ school, this is my community’s school, my parish,” Haney said. “I want to see this place be the best it could possibly be.”
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Haney worked as a sixth grade teacher and an accelerated math and science teacher before transitioning to leadership at the Bronx’s St. Philip Neri.
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Haney said she is honored to start her first principalship at SMSG, and looking forward to expanding STEM opportunities for students, and building partnerships with the University of Mount Saint Vincent and local businesses.
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SMSG started as a parish school called Lavelle Hall in 1911.
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‘Hostage within our homes:’ residents speak out on rats CONTINUED from page A1 bie Caruso, along with several other involved cooperators, told The Press they filed numerous 311 complaints, and reached out to more than a dozen city, state and federal elected officials. They also turned to Amalgamated general manager Charles Zsebedics. “We can’t keep waiting for others to respond,” Caruso wrote to Zsebedics July 14. “We, your cooperators, are hostage within our homes. We cannot enter and exit without being inundated with rats running over our feet. We can’t park our cars on Saxon for fear that the rats are going up inside the vehicles. This is not a way to live.” Despite Zsebedics’ efforts, options are limited, he told The Press. Amalgamated can only control the rats within their property line — which extends to 9 inches from 3991 Saxon Ave. — and the vermin have a way of avoiding or eating through obstacles. “You have this cyclical issue of baiting the burrows with rodenticide, try-
ing to fill the holes with concrete and foam, or whatever else we can do to stem the tide of them rebuilding their nest,” Zsebedics said. “We do that as often as we possibly can, but to no avail.” Extreme extermination methods — such as dry ice to produce carbon monoxide and suffocate the rats — aren’t possible either, Zsebedics wrote in a July 14 email to Caruso and other cooperators. It’s illegal to use dry ice next to a multi-family house, he said. Until the entire population is killed, the cycle continues, he told The Press The Dinowitzes wrote a joint letter July 24, calling on several city agencies to pay attention, and noting 3991 Saxon Ave.’s building conditions were “threatening the health and safety of the tenants.” The agencies listed told The Press they had either inspected the site within the month and found no violations, or had nothing to do with the property. This is with the exception of the city’s department of health and men-
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Residents said gaps in between 3991 Saxon Ave.’s structure and the ground made it easy for rats to burrow and reproduce. tal hygiene, which typically deals with rat infestations, and did not respond for comment. A department employee was on site at 3991 Saxon Ave. when The Press visited July 29, but de-
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Residents of 3991 Saxon Ave. and of 74 Van Cortlandt S., an Amalgamated building, joined local electeds for a press conference July 30.
clined to comment. According to city records, 3991 Saxson LLC bought the property from S&N Saxon LLC in February 2023. 3991 Saxson LLC could not be reached
for comment. The 17-unit building was a part of the city’s affordable housing lottery, according to online portal NYC Housing Connect.
‘We couldn’t save it:’ signs of Denishawn demolition CONTINUED from page A1 Arts at 67 Stevenson Place in 1927. Here, the couple trained dance pioneers like Charles Weidman, Jack Cole and Martha Graham, according to the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project. The company behind the studio, called Denishawn, was created in 1915 as America’s first professional dance company, the organization said. Shawn realized he was gay and left the Denishawn school in 1931, while St. Denis continued to teach there for three years after. Shawn went on to buy a farm in Massachusetts and founded his own company, Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Still, he hid his homosexuality for much of his life in an effort to prove that dance was appropriate for American men, according to the organization. Frampton Tolbert, executive direc-
tor of the Historic Districts Council, said Denishawn House was a part of the council’s efforts to highlight sites with cultural merit, as opposed to just architectural merit. The Bronx is also underrepresented when it comes to historical landmarks, Tolbert said. According to the city’s landmark preservation commission, there are more than 38,000 landmark properties across the five boroughs. The Bronx has 1,151 of these, according to the commission — within 13 historic districts, 101 individual landmarks, 8 interior landmarks and one scenic landmark. Districts and scenic landmarks can include multiple designated sites, the commission said. In June, the community board’s Van Cortlandt Village working group, which is a part of the land use committee, unanimously passed a resolution recommending the Denishawn House
as a city landmark. It noted the borough’s pride as a creative cradle for the arts — from modern dance to hip hop — and said Denishawn House reflects that legacy. Denishawn House is now owned by the Van Cortlandt Jewish Center, and is part of a lot that is under contract as of June 2025 to be sold to Barone Management, a real estate development and construction firm based in Roslyn, New York, according to city property records. The center’s vice president, Jack Spiegel, told The Press he still does not know what Barone will do with the property. Spiegel added he saw no reason for the site to be landmarked, as the studio portion of Denishawn House has long been torn down. Barone did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
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Workers were spotted on the roof of the Denishawn House July 30, shortly after a consulting company notified Bronx Community Board 8 it would be starting demolition sometime after July 27.
Windsor pool members seek reimbursement after closure CONTINUED from page A1 private outdoor pools open to outside members. After four nearly pristine summers as a member, Riverdale resident Jamie Kanter said this will be his last. “It has become more a matter of principle than of financial compensation,” Kanter said. “Businesses and organizations should be held accountable when they fail to provide the services for which people have paid.” Kanter said calculating refunds based solely on the number of closed days ignores why many families purchase seasonal memberships in the first place. Rather than visiting throughout the entire summer, many members buy memberships because they expect to spend specific weeks at the pool with children, grandchildren or visiting relatives. Once those weeks passed during the closure, Kanter, other members and some residents said, much of the membership’s value had already been lost. Problems began before the health department ordered the closure. Beginning June 4, members received emails announcing delayed openings and unexpected closures because the pool’s management company, USA Pool Management, could not maintain required staffing levels. On June 8, management notified mem-
bers the pool had closed early because a scheduled lifeguard failed to report for work. The Press reviewed more than a dozen emails confirming repeated staffing shortages and delayed openings before the city shut the facility down. The problem, emails show, was largely rooted in the decision to replace Iowa Sports, which operated the pool for more than a decade, with USA Pool Management. According to a June 30 question-and-answer document distributed to members and viewed by The Press, the Windsors’ board of directors sought proposals from several companies after the pool operated at a financial deficit for three consecutive years. The decision, the board said, “was not based solely on cost,” though it acknowledged Iowa Sports was “among the more expensive companies.” Five days after the closure, the Windsor Apartments Board of Directors and ARGO Real Estate, which manages the property, informed members they had switched back to Iowa Sports and reopening the pool was their “absolute highest priority.” The board also told members it was developing a refund policy while focusing first on reopening the facility. Subsequent updates described contract negotiations, equipment repairs and inspections.
By July 3, the board said Iowa Sports had determined the pool could not safely reopen because its turnover rate and circulation system failed to meet health department requirements. According to the update, contractors had repaired leaking equipment, backwashed filters and verified the flow meter, but additional work was still needed before inspectors would allow swimmers back into the water. Throughout the closure, Kanter repeatedly requested a full refund. On June 23, Kanter emailed ARGO demanding a full refund of his $803 membership fee, arguing management had accepted payment without providing the service purchased. Jay Reyes, ARGO’s senior director of client success, responded that the board was working on a refund policy but remained focused on reopening the pool. After the pool reopened, members were offered either a 35 percent refund by check or a 35 percent credit toward the 2027 season. Over email, the board said the figure reflected the pool being unavailable for 35 of its scheduled 107 operating days. Charles Quinn, a Windsor resident, said many understand that unexpected problems can arise, but what has frustrated them most is how the situation was managed. Throughout the month-long closure, he said, mem-
bers received frequent emails describing repairs and reopening efforts, yet questions about refunds and responsibility often went unanswered. Even after the pool reopened and the board announced a refund policy, Quinn said many members felt the proposal failed to address the broader concerns raised by the shutdown. “There is a complete dissatisfaction with the way refunds are being handled,” Quinn said. “The communication that’s been going on has completely been lackluster.” The experience, he added, has left many members wondering how a pool that had operated without health department violations in recent years ended up closed for more than a month during the height of summer. He said members are still looking for a clearer explanation of what went wrong, how it was allowed to happen and who ultimately bears responsibility for preventing it from happening again. Records reviewed by The Press show at least seven 311 complaints were filed between June 6 and June 13, before the health department inspection that resulted in the closure. Some members have also questioned the board’s decision to change pool vendors before the season. Kanter said he believes selecting a less expensive operator contributed to the problems that followed.
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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shut down the Windsor Apartments’ pool after it determined water chlorination levels were drastically low. The Riverdale Press reached out to ARGO Senior Director of Client Success Jay Reyes, Windsor Apartments Board President Debra Levy, the Windsor Apartments Board of Directors, USA Management and Iowa Sports seeking comment. None responded by press time.
Residents say 311 calls failing to address derelict vehicles CONTINUED from page A1 persistent advocates around the issue, documenting vehicles, working with the 50th precinct and encouraging neighbors to make 311 reports. “What the NYPD had told me was they wait for an accumulation of cars, because they can’t just book a tow and tow the cars,” he said. “They need to have at least 10 plus cars abandoned on the street, which to me seems a little outrageous.” Residents now send him photographs and addresses of cars they believe have been abandoned. During his daily runs, Hammond checks whether vehicles have moved, photographs them and files new 311 complaints when they have not. Some have accumulated multiple complaints over several months while remaining parked in the same locations. Residents told The Press abandoned vehicles do more than just occupy scarce parking spaces. They also create neighborhood eyesores and contribute to the perception that quality-of-life issues are going unaddressed. Standing beside a stripped black Volvo on Fieldston Road, Hammond pointed to flies circling the vehicle and recalled another abandoned car that had become home to rodents. “We had a mice infestation on this block, and I saw mice constantly coming from that car, “ Hammond said. “That’s why it’s a problem, because it affects homeowners, it affects renters, it affects everybody.”
Retired firefighter Robert O’Brien, who has lived in North Riverdale for 40 years, said he believes the problem has worsened since the pandemic. “This has become a dumping ground for cars, and nothing gets done about it,” O’Brien said. “It takes forever.” O’Brien has repeatedly reported a blue hatchback on Huxley Avenue, near West 262nd Street, telling The Press, which confirmed the vehicle’s location, he believes it has been parked for more than two years. “You can see the leaves and the dirt around it,” he said. “You can tell the car never moves.” Many said their biggest frustration is not simply that the vehicles remain, but that complaints are often marked closed while the problem continues. Under the city’s 311 system, residents can report a vehicle that has remained on public property for at least 48 hours. Those complaints are routed to the New York Police Department. Vehicles without license plates are investigated by the New York City Department of Sanitation, or DSNY, which determines whether they meet the legal definition of a derelict vehicle. A spokesperson for the NYPD said abandoned vehicle removals are handled through interagency operations with DSNY and the New York City Department of Transportation, rather than by individual precincts. That split in responsibility has left many residents uncertain about which agency is responsible when reported ve-
hicles remain in place for months. Council member Eric Dinowitz said no one should have to navigate city bureaucracy to get results, pointing to legislation he proposed that would distinguish complaints from “closed” to those that were actually resolved, “If you’re a resident, you don’t care about which agency is responsible,” Dinowitz said. “You don’t care about the bureaucracy around you. You just want your neighborhood to look nice. You just want the health and safety and dignity that we deserve here in the Bronx.” He also noted streets like the Henry Hudson Parkway service roads, where long stretches without residential addresses have become a ground zero for seemingly abandoned or derelict cars. When that is the case, residents often defer to marking the nearest intersection instead, creating what is ultimately an inaccurate report. Hammond told The Press he’s sent the NYPD drawn-out maps, with squares and arrows pointing to where abandoned cars are located — despite having also provided 311 complaints and locations associated with them. However, legislation introduced by Council member Dinowitz may help alleviate that issue by allowing residents to submit GPS coordinates with 311 complaints. “Whether it’s sanitation or NYPD, they can know particularly which car and exactly what location you’re referring to when you’re making your com-
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Several vehicles show clear signs they had not been moved in some time, like this one in Kingsbridge with four flat tires. plaint,” Dinowitz said. The department of sanitation told The Press complaints may be closed without a vehicle being removed if inspectors return and find it has been moved or license plates have been attached. Its biggest challenge, the agency said, is that vehicles tagged for removal are sometimes moved before inspectors return. “In many cases, these vehicles belong to body shops, which will place plates on tagged vehicles or move them, which prevents us from towing the vehicles,” the department said. DSNY also said it removed 13 derelict vehicles in Bronx Community District 8 so
far this calendar year, compared with 35 during all of 2025. The agency said it has scheduled a joint towing operation with the NYPD in the area for early August. The NYPD also told The Press a commanding officer of the 50th precinct is aware of neighborhood parking concerns. Two interagency towing operations conducted this year near Jerome Avenue resulted in 14 parking summonses and eight vehicles being towed. Larger vehicles, such as RVs, require specialized heavy-duty tow trucks before they can be removed, said the NYPD, adding officers are continuing to work to remove them as quickly as possible.
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Bronx moves and grooves at Lehman’s Salsa Under the Stars event By Olivia Young oyoung@riverdalepress.com The smell of fresh empanadas wafted through the air as attendees moved their bodies to the rhythmic sounds of Tres De Solar, a Latin jazz and Puerto Rican salsa band, July 30 outside Lehman Center for the Performing Arts. The event, Salsa Under the Stars, drew in about 300 Bronxites, according to organizers. Attendees also grooved to DJ Woody, or lingered near a booth run by The Salsa Project, a New York City-based movement that aims to preserve salsa music and encourage young people to get more involved in the genre. Lehman alum Wilson Hernandez, an actor and martial arts trainer, said he attended in support of the college. Raised in a Dominican household, Hernandez said he’s personally more of a bachata dancer than salsa, but still admires it. “I just kind of love the music, the aesthetics, the camaraderie,” Hernandez said of salsa. Sarah Torres, who lives in Crotona Park East, and her mom, Jasmin Torres, who lives in New Rochelle, found out about the event from an Instagram post. Sarah Torres noted the deep roots salsa has in the city. “Salsa was born out of resistance,” Sarah Torres said. “And a blend of cultures here in New York City. It’s beautiful to listen to, beautiful to dance to. It creates such a beautiful community, and we love to see it continue.” Salsa’s core is son cubano, a style that originated in eastern Cuba, according to The Salsa Project. It was born in the late ‘60s in neighborhoods such as Hunts Point, Longwood, Mott Haven and Spanish Harlem, soon becoming an umbrella term for a mix of rumba, mambo and son montuno, among many others, the organization said.
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Martin Muntzel, a biology professor at Lehman, and Elsie Tai, are longtime friends who met through dancing. Muntzel started dancing in 1995, and Tai began in tango more than a decade ago. Tai described them as “activity junkies” who love to go ice skating and mountain biking, and are unable to stand still once music starts playing. Muntzel said he appreciates the complexity of salsa music. “They have these syncopated rhythms where it changes all the time, and what the result is is that it grabs you and makes you dance.”
Tano Perez was one of a few owners of Havana Cafe, a Bronx-based Cuban restaurant, that ran the food and drink station. Attendees indulged in roasted pork, beans and rice, and beef and chicken empanadas, to name a few items, according to owner Kevin Alicea. “This is just traditional food that you would find in a street fair or a carnival,” Alicea said.
Lehman Center for the Performing Arts Executive Director Dante Albertie was key in organizing Salsa Under the Stars. He said the event aimed to bring the community together, and emphasized the importance of it being free. This makes an event less transactional, and creates more of a dialogue between the center and the community, Albertie said. In his role, Albertie prioritizes thinking outside the box, he said, and wakes up each day brainstorming what he can do to create opportunities for audiences to see things they haven’t seen, or for the community to gather in a way they haven’t before.
Attendee Janet Zallas, not pictured, who lives in Parkchester, learned about Salsa Under the Stars from a friend. Zallas has a deep love for the genre, and has loved it since she was a little girl, she said. “When I was a child, my parents used to have house parties,” Zallas recalled. “I have aunts and uncles that are a couple years older than me, and they taught me how to dance.”
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Middle school educator hopes new journal gives children space to pause my students to have and use that would actually be helpful to them?’” Guzmán said. “I wanted to create something that could actually help kids.” For the 33-year-old, the project grew naturally from her own classroom philosophy. Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Harlem, Guzmán earned degrees in psychology, child and family studies, and inclusive special education before beginning her teaching career in 2015. She recently spent several years teaching middle and elementary school mathematics before returning this fall to the KIPP charter school network, where she previously taught for five years. She moved to Riverdale in 2019 after searching for a neighborhood that offered easy access to nature while remaining close to Manhattan schools. Throughout her career, Guzmán has taught in inclusive classrooms, where students with disabilities learn alongside their peers. She said the school day often begins not with academics, but with helping students settle in and checking in throughout the day. For students who need to take a beat, she may guide
By Michelle Mullen mmullen@riverdalepress.com After more than a decade teaching in New York City classrooms, educator Mariely Guzmán has learned that some of the most important moments of the school day happen before the first lesson begins. Some students arrive carrying worries about friendships and family or struggle to settle into the classroom after a difficult morning, she said. Before students can focus on multiplication tables or reading comprehension, Guzmán believes many simply need time to regulate their emotions. That philosophy is one the Riverdale resident carried throughout her teaching career and ultimately inspired “Put it on Paper,” a guided mindfulness journal she selfpublished in April to encourage children to slow down through writing, drawing and guided reflection. Developed over nearly three years, the journal is designed to help children process their thoughts, practice selfawareness and build healthy emotional habits outside the demands of schoolwork. “I kept asking myself, ‘What is something that I would want
them to a calm-down corner, offer sensory tools or hold a brief one-on-one “minute meeting” to ask how they’re doing outside of schoolwork. Guzmán said those conversations help students regulate their emotions before returning to instruction and have become just as important to learning as the lessons themselves. Those daily interactions became the foundation for “Put it on Paper,” a book aimed at children of all ages and abilities. “I feel like it is important for every child and not just students with disabilities, not just students with anxiety or dysregulation,” Guzmán said. “We all need a moment to pause.” Rather than creating a traditional diary with dated entries, Guzmán organized the journal around the four seasons, encouraging children to pick it up whenever they need it instead of feeling obligated to write every day. The pages include inspirational quotes, reflection prompts, breathing exercises and blank spaces where children can write, sketch or doodle. She said she intentionally left room for artwork because not every child processes emo-
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came New York City’s first historic house museum in 1897, the third oldest in the nation. Its rooms were restored and furnished to be historically accurate; however, only a small portion of the furnishings actually belonged to the Van Cortlandt family. Van Cortlandt House Museum Director Margaret Holmes said Box’s willingness to question traditional interpretation is exactly what drew the museum to the project. The museum’s status as New York City’s first historic house museum makes that evolution especially meaningful, she said. “I think it shows what historic preservation can do and the capacity that it has to tell these stories and integrate art and these different media into our interpretations,” Holmes said. Many of Box’s photographs draw inspiration from Dutch stilllife paintings, a genre she argues celebrates the wealth of empires while obscuring the exploitation that produced it. “Dutch still-life paintings are basically advertisements for the Dutch Empire,” she said. “Under these sumptuous presentations of beauty, the products and objects are pulled from all parts of the empire. It becomes this presentation of luxury that says you should align yourself with the empire.” The exhibition also confronts Revolutionary War mythology. One installation in the room George Washington once stayed in references his postwar request that the British return enslaved people who escaped after being promised freedom in exchange for fighting against the Americans. There, a transparent photographic overlay of the president’s dentures — made in part from the teeth of enslaved people — is hung before a table and chair draped with a Revolutionary War military coat. Visitors must look through the image to view the room beyond. “I was like, ‘Here is a crack in this notion of America and American freedom,’” Box said. “To encounter George Washington’s figure, we should have to see him through this perspective.” Rather than offering visitors definitive answers, “Overlapping Empires” asks them to question what they see, Box said. As they move through the house, familiar rooms become spaces where competing ideas of freedom and memory overlap.
By Michelle Mullen mmullen@riverdalepress.com For more than a century, the Van Cortlandt House Museum has offered a glimpse into the lives of one of New York’s wealthiest colonial families. Now, an exhibition is peeling back the curtain on the estate’s history, examining its enduring ties to the transatlantic slave trade through a contemporary artistic lens. Located in Van Cortlandt Park, the museum’s first sitewide exhibition, “Overlapping Empires,” reimagines the 1748 home and the land it sits on — once a plantation — as shaped by Dutch, British and American imperial rule and the Munsee Lenape people, as well as the generations of enslaved African, Caribbean and descended people whose labor made the Van Cortlandt family’s wealth possible. Jamaican-born Bronx artist and photographer Samantha Box takes visitors on an immersive journey, encouraging them to view the estate from a new perspetive that challenges long-held notions. Her large-scale photographs on transparent panels take over each room, overlaying collages of broken masonry, construction debris and brightly colored Caribbean souvenir packaging onto the home’s meticulously preserved interiors. Throughout the home, washes of magenta light and a subtle soundscape lead visitors to the former enslaved quarters on the third floor, where the light appears to emanate from the attic space once occupied by enslaved people. A common theme throughout, Box said, traces the estate’s commercial ties to the Caribbean, where food produced on the Van Cortlandt plantation helped sustain enslaved people on sugar plantations, creating a profitable trade network that enriched the family. Box said the exhibition challenges visitors to think beyond the familiar Revolutionary War narrative and instead recognize the estate as part of a much larger system of empire and commerce. The exhibition grew from nearly a year of collaboration between Box and museum staff after the project received funding through the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Box, who lives across from Van Cortlandt Park, said she had visited the park countless times but had rarely entered the museum
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“Overlapping Empires” at the Van Cortlandt House Museum runs through Aug. 30. before being invited to create the exhibition. Her research led her through every room in the house and deep into the history of both the Van Cortlandt family and the storied past of the land they owned, but one realization quickly emerged. “This space is very much connected to the Caribbean because many enslaved people who first built this house, who were working these agricultural fields that are now the playing fields, who dammed the creek, built the mill house and ground the wheat into flour, connect this place to it,” she said. Born in Jamaica, the photographer said much of her artistic practice begins with her own experience in the Caribbean diaspora, examining how histories of empire, migration and enslavement continue to shape the present. Discovering that those same histories were embedded in a museum she had passed countless times transformed the commission into something much more intimate. The Van Cortlandt family’s wealth grew through the Dutch West India Company, with generations exporting flour, wheat, butter and other products from the estate, but largely from trafficking enslaved laborers between Caribbean colonies and New York. “We think about the Caribbean as this sort of zone of paradise, but the way it’s often been positioned disguises the continued exploitation of people who have histories of transport as enslavement or indenture,” Box said. “Our notions of a place hide the mechanisms that continue the empire, just like this house.” Rather than adding artwork to the museum, Box sought to “interrupt it.” That idea crystallized as Box learned more about the history of historic house museums themselves. The Van Cortlandt House be-
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The Jerome Park Reservoir was named after Leonard W. Jerome, a wealthy 1800s Brooklyn resident, according to the city’s department of parks and recreation. Jerome was also principal owner of The New York Times, founder of the American Academy of Music and Sir Winston Churchill’s grandfather, the department said. The south basin was drained in 2019 for a previous project, pictured.
5 things to know about the ongoing Jerome Park Reservoir project Olivia Young oyoung@riverdalepress.com The Jerome Park Reservoir, which runs along Goulden Avenue from West 197th Street to Sedgwick Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, was built more than a century ago to help distribute water to the Bronx and store water in the city. Currently, the south end of the two-basin, 94-acre reservoir is an empty stretch of concrete — what some residents call an ongoing eyesore that is moving closer to a resolution. Here are five important points to know about the reservoir’s past, present and future.
Dry through 2027
According to a New York City Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson, the department continues to make upgrades to the reservoir, which is undergoing a capital state of good repair project. “The south basin is drained to accommodate ongoing construction,” the spokesperson said. “We anticipate it will remain empty of water through 2027 when that work is complete. This work has no effect on the city water supply.”
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The city’s department of environmental protection said in a February 2022 release the $38 million project would begin later that year and take about four years to wrap up. Work is focused on improving structural components, such as repairing the reservoir’s eastern wall, and filling parts of the Old Croton Aqueduct — New York City’s first, now- defunct, water system — that run along the reservoir with flowable concrete, which is a runny concrete mixture. It also targets upgrading the interior fence, as well as the retaining wall that separates the reservoir from Lehman College’s parking lot.
What came before
Before the $38 million project was a different $15.7 million project. Starting in 2018 and lasting four years, the department worked to rehabilitate gatehouses — which control the flow of water into the reservoir — install new fencing and upgrade security infrastructure. The department said in 2022 the investment will help ensure the long-term function of the city’s water supply infrastructure.
Community complaints
In the last year, residents have voiced that the empty reservoir site is an eyesore. Previously, community members have taken issue with the lack of public access to the reservoir for joggers and recreationalists — which the department banned in 2004, citing potential security risks for the Croton Water Filtration Plant, The Press reported in 2017.
A long history
The reservoir was built from 1894 to 1905, according to the city’s department of environmental protection. It was originally fed by the Old Croton Aqueduct, which drew from the Croton Reservoir in Westchester, until city demand for water rose, according to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. Plans for the New Croton Aqueduct launched in the 1880s, which helped meet a growing population’s water needs. In the 2000s and early 2010s, significant changes were made to the reservoir so it could connect with the Croton Water Filtration Plant, according to the city’s department of environmental protection. The plant runs underneath Mosholu Golf Course in Van Cortlandt Park. Jerome Park Reservoir can store 770 million gallons of water, according to the city’s department of environmental protection. About 10 percent of the city’s drinking water passes through the reservoir and the Croton Water Filtration Plant daily, the department said.
Courtesy New York City Department Environmental Protection
Since 2018, repairs for the reservoir included improving structural components, upgrading the interior fence and retaining wall and rehabilitating gatehouses.
File photo
About 10 percent of the city’s drinking water passes through the reservoir and the Croton Water Filtration Plant daily.
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Join a knowledgeable garden guide at Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., for a leisurely stroll in the gardens on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1 to 1:30 p.m. Topics vary by season and the expertise of the guide. This walk lasts a half hour to 45 minutes. Most appropriate for adults or young adults. Visit wavehill.org for more information.
At Riverdale Senior Services
Get Fit with Stuart Riverdale Senior Services, 2600 Netherland Ave., invites you to workout with Stuart, the RSS exercise expert. Participants at any fitness level are welcome. This is a general fitness class that can be done seated or standing. Classes are held on Mondays and Fridays from 10 to 11 a.m. To register for classes and for more information visit rssny.org. Poetry group Robert Ackerman returns to lead poetry group at Riverdale Senior Services, 2600 Netherland Ave. This program runs Mondays from 11 a.m. to noon and is open to anyone who loves to write and listen to poetry. This class is about reading, writing and discussing poetry. It is an open class, as less structure allows for more creativity. The class is open for all members and is hybrid. For more information and a Zoom link visit rssny.org.
At Van Cortlandt Park
Running Group NYC Parks hosts a running group every Friday from 10 to 11 a.m., open to runners of all experience levels. Runners will start with active running and walking intervals that gradually build to more time running than walking. This program is designed for anyone starting their running journey, anyone with a goal to run a 5K and for anyone coming back to running after some time off. Led by running coach Tonya Montero. The running group meets at the park entrance on Broadway and West 251st Street. They will meet
by the Tortoise and Hare Statue. To register and for more information visit nycgovparks.org/events. Nature Story Time The Van Cortlandt Park Alliance invites you to join the Urban Park Rangers and their puppet friends for stories inspired by nature. Park rangers and participants will meet in Van Cortlandt Park at the Indian Field, at East 233rd Street and Jerome Avenue. The program takes place on Saturday, Aug. 8 from 11 a.m. to noon. It is free of cost and no registration is required. For more information visit vancortlandt.org. Dog Days of Summer Hike Head to Van Cortlandt Park, at Broadway and Mosholu Avenue, on Sunday, Aug. 9. Bring your dog and hike the trails in Van Cortlandt Park from 11 a.m. to noon. On this dog-friendly hike, experience nature with your dog while learning about the importance of parks rules and regulations regarding pets. All dogs and dog lovers are welcome. No registration is required for the free hike. For more information visit vancortlandt.org.
At Wave Hill
Family Art Project: Monet’s Magnificent Pond Head to Wave Hill, 4900 Independence Ave., on Saturday, Aug. 8 to dive into the world of artist Claude Monet and his water lilies. Families will create their very own mixed-media paintings, inspired by Wave Hill’s Aquatic Garden. The program runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is free with admission to the grounds. Families will meet at the Wave Hill House. Registration is not required. For more information visit wavehill.org.
At Spuyten Duyvil Library
Analog board games Come to Spuyten Duyvil Library, 650 W 235th St., for an afternoon of analog board games. No tech is allowed in this entertaining after-school club. Join library staff as they guide children and their grown-ups through the strategy and fun of educational board games every Thursday from 3 to 6 p.m. Are you a Pokémon fan too? Come meet up with other players to show off, trade cards and Pokébattle. For ages 5 and up.
At Yoga Muse
Chair Yoga This chair yoga class at Yoga Muse, 2735 Henry Hudson Parkway W. #202, is based on the Lakshmi Voelker Chair Yoga Method and offers a supportive, accessible yoga practice done fully seated and using a chair for support. No experience necessary. Runs Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. Visit yogamuse.co for more information. Yoga for Kids Yoga Muse, 2735 Henry Hudson Parkway W. #202, is rolling out a kids program this fall and registration is now open. Classes start in September for children ages 5 to 8 and 9 to 12, and in October for children ages 2 to 4 with a parent. Visit yogamuse.co/yoga-for-kids for more information.
At the New York Botanical Garden
‘Flower Power’ The New York Botanical Garden, located at 2900 Southern Blvd., invites you to immerse yourself in a groovy and colorful flower show spotlighting the ways in which hip-
pie culture advanced closer relationships with the natural world in the “Flower Power” exhibition. The exhibit runs until Oct. 18. To get tickets visit nybg.org. ‘Summer Of Moomin’ The New York Botanical Garden, located at 2900 Southern Blvd., presents the beloved inhabitants of Moominvalley, who arrive at the garden for “Summer of Moomin,” a celebration inviting audiences of all ages to step into the imaginative universe created by Finnish artist and author Tove Jansson. The exhibit runs until Sept. 13. To get tickets visit nybg.org.
At the Riverdale Y
Walk Against Hate The Riverdale Y invites you to join “The Walk Against Hate Bronx”, at noon on Saturday, Aug. 8. The community-based program unites Bronx residents to promote inclusion, build connections across communities, promote walking, and stand united against hate. The meeting place is at Van Cortlandt Park, 80 Van Cortlandt Park South. Registration for the program is required. For more information visit riverdaley.org.
At the Hudson River Museum
Yoga Head to the Hudson River Museum, at 511 Warburton Ave. in Yonkers, on Friday, Aug. 7 and enjoy an evening of yoga led by Karen Young, the founder of Key Wellness. Young leads two 45-minute yoga classes at 5 and 6 p.m. Classes take place in the museum’s galleries, overlooking the river and Palisades. This is a free program with no admission fee. All levels are welcome. Participants must bring their
own yoga mat or towels. For more information visit hrm.org. Afro Dominicano The Hudson River Museum, at 511 Warburton Ave. in Yonkers, presents a performance by Afro Dominicano. A Latin fusion indie band playing “Afro Caribbean soul,” a blending of traditional folkloric roots music from the Dominican Republic with Afrobeats, reggae, calypso, samba, funk, punk rock and other Caribbean rhythms. Their sound is a composition of vocals and various instruments. The performance takes place on Friday, Aug. 7 at 8 p.m. in the amphitheater. No admission fee is required. For more information visit hrm.org.
At Kingsbridge Historical Society Bronx 250th Quilt The Kingsbridge Historical Society, at 2570 Independence Ave., invites you to check out the newly sewn Bronx 250th Quilts on Sunday, Aug. 9 from 1 to 4 p.m. Bronx residents worked together to produce two quilts depicting significant places, people, and stories from our communities. The project was led by teaching artist Tijay Mohammed, in collaboration with the Kingsbridge Historical Society and Riverdale Senior Services. The exhibit is free of cost. For more information visit kingsbridgehistoricalsociety.org. Releases for “What’s On?” must be in our office by Wednesday at 5 p.m. to be considered for publication the following week. Items may be sent to whatson@riverdalepress.com.
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Opinion Editorial
Better late than never for climate resilience
T
he alarm has long been raised over climate change. Activists and experts alike have been waving red flags for years about the long-term effects of human pollution on our planet. With each passing year, however, those effects have made themselves more and more apparent. This summer has been no different. Over the past few months, New York City has seen scorching temperatures, torrential downpours leading to flash floods, smoky skies from raging Canadian wildfires and strained energy systems competing with mounting heat. According to recent reporting by The Press, that strain on the electric grid announced itself with particular volume in the form of a sewage spill in nearby Yonkers. Climate change is making itself known to our community in large ways, but also through less obvious means. Previous reporting by The Press revealed that local gardens are witnessing altered bloom times and growth schedules for their plant collections. Even the increasingly familiar invasive spotted lanternflies dotting the sidewalks are able to spread faster in our warming climate, according to a 2023 report by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. These changes are telling us what those activists and experts have been trying to: something needs to change. As reported in a NASA FAQ, the impacts of human activity on the Earth’s climate cannot be reversed on the timescale of human beings alive today. But while we might not be able to completely reverse our impacts, we can stop their acceleration and prepare our communities for what comes next. NASA states that the approach to climate change is now one of mitigation and adaptation — reducing our impacts, and learning to live with the ones we have set in motion.
Rising heat, fickle air quality, flooding and other impacts of climate change are not just dangerous for our environment, but for the people in our community. As weak sunlight filtered through wildfire smoke, we were urged to stay indoors, check on vulnerable neighbors, wear masks. As roads were inundated by flash flooding from intense summer storms, we were told not to venture outside unless necessary, to keep in contact with community members in basement apartments. In essence, when the adverse effects of climate change suddenly rear their heads, we are told to look out for ourselves and for our neighbors. But to many, these measures can feel reactionary. Slapping a band aid on an existing wound. So, how can we look out for ourselves and our neighbors in ways that might help us mitigate and adapt in the longer term? It may seem anticlimactic, but the answer lies in advocating for the solutions we’ve all likely heard of before. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by turning to green energy. Protecting our oceans, forests and soil so they can act as natural “sinks” for the pollutants we still produce. Planning for the next flood, the next heatwave, and ensuring our infrastructure is ready to take whatever the next hit may be. Reducing heat with greenery. Adopting permeable surfaces to soak up floodwaters. Though climate change is no doubt a global issue requiring federal and global collaboration, NASA and the United Nations Development Programme, among others, remind us that the bulk of adaptation happens at the local scale. It is up to our community, on the local level, to pay attention to the changes and threats we are seeing, call them out and push for the changes our environment and our neighbors need to remain healthy.
Letters to the editor
NYC alma mater of Rudy Giuliani and a sitting congressman who did blackface once again disappoints To the editor, In a small Catholic college on a hill in Riverdale, I was taught the Lasallian values of concern for the poor and social justice, of inclusive community, of respect for all people. Armed with this knowledge, I — an activist who was featured in the New York Times for protesting the MET Gala — was declared valedictorian. I hoped that this was a sign that the school was ready to fully embrace its values and their political implications. But on Thursday, July 9, the school once again showed that its values are just for show by proudly posting a photo featuring Donald Trump, a man who stands against everything I was taught, with comments disabled. I spoke at graduation about the school’s core values. Values like human dignity and concern for the poor. I talked about the role Manhattan University played in desegregating college basketball. How the same school can boast the role of its alum in the New York Stock Exchange and her connection to Trump while claiming to hold these values is beyond me. When I saw the Instagram post, I informed the school that I no longer wanted to be on the cover of the summer magazine so long as the post remained up. I will not advertise them to be something they aren’t, and so long as that post is up, they are not the school I described in my speech. They responded saying that they would remove me from the cover of the magazine, and I have since been blocked by the very same instagram page that declared me valedictorian. Their choice was very clear: an Instagram post about Donald Trump was more important than everything the school claimed to stand for. I wanted to make sure that others knew the school’s true values, so I posted the screenshots
on my story, and the response was immediate. Several students reached out expressing disappointment and even distress about the post in question. A few even told personal stories about other times that the school failed to uphold values that it touts. My close friend Elliot Babilonia, who was instrumental in the creation of the Just Peace student club, a student activist group, was among the first to reach out, as a former MU student that was forced to transfer to a CUNY after losing his mother very suddenly during the summer of 2025. Despite Manhattan University’s emphasis on their website about their “commitment to education, to generosity of spirit, and the power of education to change lives,” Babilonia said the school didn’t even offer condolences and refused to increase his financial aid. Another student claimed that this was not the first time the school aggressively tried to silence student voices online. After making an Instagram post criticizing the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the student claims that the school forced them to write an apology letter to another student who claimed that her post was antisemitic. When the student asked about disputing the accusation, they said they were threatened with disciplinary action. Students deserve to feel as though the school they were advertised is the same school they are attending. Students at Manhattan University feel as though they have been lied to and betrayed. This school taught me that it’s important to raise my voice in the face of wrongdoing and to help give a voice to others who feel unheard. If the school refuses to hear us, perhaps you will.
Support for reforming the MTA’s automated bus camera ticket program Point of view It’s raining, it’s pouring — the waste is flowing
To the editor,
I am writing to urge your support for reforming the MTA’s automated bus camera ticket program. While the goal of keeping bus lanes clear is valid, the current progressive fine structure — which scales up to $250 for repeat offenses — is fundamentally unjust and places an oppressive burden on working drivers. The core purpose of a traffic fine is to correct driving behavior. However, the current system fails this logic entirely because it does not give drivers a chance to correct their behavior before subsequent, escalated fines are issued. By the time a driver receives their very first ticket in the mail, they may have already committed the same infraction multiple times over several weeks while remaining entirely unaware of the new camera enforcement. My own situation illustrates this predatory flaw. I was cited for my first infraction on March 7. Because of the MTA’s notification lag, I did not receive that notice in the mail until nearly two months later, in May. During that multi-week blind spot, I was cit-
ed two more times for letting passengers off along the Bx9 route. Because the system automatically triggers an escalation for “repeat” offenses, the second and third tickets jumped to $150 and $200. As a result, I was hit with a total of $550 in fines before I even knew the first violation occurred. A progressive fine system is meant to penalize drivers who willfully ignore warnings. Because the MTA’s notification lag prevents drivers from learning they are breaking a rule, the escalating penalties act as a financial trap rather than a deterrent. I urge you to champion legislation that limits camera violations to a flat $50 fine. If the city maintains this predatory penalty escalation, it could lead to mass defaults on fines, resulting in thousands of working New Yorkers having their vehicles impounded and auctioned off. We need common-sense reforms to protect our communities before this becomes a reality. I ask for your support in fixing this system.
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By Ela Oksoy Most 16-year-olds don’t spend much time thinking about sewage, yet I find myself doing exactly that. Most mornings, I go on a run by the Hudson River. Damp grass stretching by me on one side, rippling water on the other, it’s quite peaceful- until the wind shifts and the smell of human excrement hits me. Twenty-one billion gallons of untreated wastewater are discharged into New York City waterways each year due to combined sewer overflow, or CSO. Four-hundred-fifty-five million gallons alone enter the Bronx River, reports the Bronx River Alliance. Overall, CSO plagues about 60 percent of the city. Sewage and stormwater are carried together along a 150-year-old pipe network; thus, heavy rains and snowfall swiftly overwhelm the system. So, while April showers bring May flowers, they can also bring a torrent of waste into our bodies of water. Beyond unpleasant stenches, CSO poses an acute public health risk. Contact with contaminated waters can expose residents to bacteria, viruses and pathogens such as hepatitis, pinkeye, meningitis and more. Thus, advisories are commonly used for risk prevention. Just weeks ago, the New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory following a power failure at a Yonkers wastewater treatment plant. Partially treated wastewater was discharged into the Hudson River, raising public health concerns for communities downstream. Recreational activities near the river were discouraged — an unwelcome addition to the severe heat and Fourth of July festivities. Warning against water contact for at least 48
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hours provides short-term relief. Nevertheless, advisories are not foolproof — merely a band-aid plastered over the bullet hole of pollution. In fact, the general approach seems to be a relaxation of standards rather than an improvement in sanitation. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation originally classified the Harlem River as Class SB: suitable for “primary and secondary contact recreation,” which includes swimming. Effective October 15, 2025, the classification was changed to Class SBWW: safe for recreational activities, but not after heavy rains or wet weather conditions. Must clean water come with caveats? The emerging solution to the issue is green infrastructure. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection estimates that relying on extensive, traditional sewer replacements would cost up to $30 billion. This demand for space and resources would place a significant strain on local residents but could be averted with a more cost-friendly path forward: a nature trail, you might say. Rain gardens, stormwater planters, permeable pavement and drainage corridors capture rainfall before it overwhelms sewers, reducing overflows while making a neighborhood greener and more resilient. New Yorkers already contend with soaring housing costs, traffic, delayed trains and flooding. Untreated sewage has no place on that list. Clean waterways should be the standard after every storm — not an aspiration. Ela Oksoy is a senior at the High School of American Studies at Lehman College and a student researcher with a particular interest in urban water quality and sustainability.
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Wave hill area Web##827 Fieldston Web #1056 West oF parKWay Web 1042 Sprawling Estate of3.5-bath over three-quarters withnew plansrenov for a 4-bdrm, 14,000-Sq. Ft. 7-bdrm, Classic 4-bdrm, house on ofa an acre Brand 4.5-bath brick 8-full tree-lined and 2-half street bath mansion at Independence Avenue. the far end rm of the property quiet, with a screenedhouse withAtFDR, family with WBFP seperate 2-car garage$1,790,000 with a 1-bdrm guest above. asking $3,125,000 inthere andis askylighted porch. and apt center-island kitchen. $2,295,,000
Fieldston Web North riverdale Web#1014 #851 Spacious and renovated 6-bdrm, 6.5Renov 4-bdrm, 3.5 bath brick and stucco bath house with patio, pool house brick with custom built-ins in living and grassy room,level, FDR and open yard. kitchen.$3,490,000 $949,000
FieldstoN HeigHts Web #997 632 VillanoVa 5-bdrm,6-bdrm, 5.5-bath6-full, house withbath spacoius Grand 3-half with livingin room, dining room, and fplc LR, FDR, family roomden & large island eat-in kitchen. $2,495,000 center island kitchen. $6,750,000
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3701 Henry Hudson prKWy Web #cc761 FieldstoN viciNity Web #rr871 5355 heNry hudsoN prKWy #cc634 Bright and 1920’ spacious Jr-4 2-full (converted 2-bdrm) Jr-4 co-op balcony and Picturesque s 3-bdrm, and to Updated withwith sunrise balcony, doormen. openburning living and living diningroom, room, primary with 2-half bath Features house withanwood dining roombdrm and eat-in double closet, windowed eat-in kitchen kitchen. and hardwood floors. $289,000 fireplace in LR & dining area. $6,500 No Board Approval. $279K
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4601 Hudson #cc763 3800 blacKstoNe ave Web #cc630 5715 Henry mosholu ave parKWay Web #cc635 Spacious & bright 4-bdrm, double apt with glass solarium & large pvt roof 2-bdrm, 2-bath duplex penthouse Bright L-shaped 2-bdrm2-bth Postwar terrace with plus in-unit closet. Two pvtwith entrances, open living & dining bright room, 3 private roof terraces, Co-op hrdwd laundry flrs, South & West windowed kitchen & windowed primary kitchen, bath with Whirlpool tub. $709,000 $599,000 W/D and C/A/C. expos. Top floor corner unit. $249,000
601 KappocK street Web #cc758 3530 heNry hudsoN parKWayrenovated Jr-4 (converted to 2-bdrm) Web #cc628 Mint condition, beautifully with Huge 3-bdrm convertible 4, 2-bath at the Parkway House. Low floor, enormous doorman, pool and parking availability, Features an entry foyer, living room living room, high ceilings, windowed dining area, windowed eat-in kitchen with with picture window,balcony, renovated kitchen and refinished hrdwd floors. $649,000 $269,000 granite countertops, 24-hr doorman.
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FieldstoN vic. rr641 4499KappocK Henry st Hudson parKWay cc742 555 cc605 8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 10,700+ sq. Spacious 4-bdrm, 2-bth conv into a 3-bdrm with an entry Bright 1-bdrm with dining Multiple porches, foyer,C/A/C, open living and dining withswimming doors to area, Hudson River rmft.combination pool. and 4-carbathrooms. garage. $23,500/mo the balcony andDM. renovated $469K view and 24-hr $179Kkitchen
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3530 HH prKWy cc749 2621 palisade aVe cc755 4455-65 525 Westdouglas 238tH stcc622 cc748 3755 hh &pKWay - the imperial - Walk-in level doctor’s Spacious Townhouse with Updated spacious 2-bdrm. Spac Jr-4 w/ open-plan living Elegant and spacious prewar $360K office reception area and 2& exam 3.5bths, sunken (Convwith 3-bdrm), 2-bath with diningrooms. rm that can be used 3-bdrms, gem: “Classic 7” (4-bdrm, WBFP & patio. $1.699K Office Space Available. North riverdale entry/dining foyer. -$599K as a guest room or$1,500/mo den. $425K LR, 3-bath) co-op. $750,999
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3103 FairField 4555 HH prKWyave. cc619 cc751 Sunny &1-bdrm, drmn, Spac, updatedPT3-bdrm, entry foyer, living 24-hr. room DM and 2-bath w/ balcony, windowed & indoor EIK. parking. $169K $595K
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3755 parKWay 2500 hh JoHnson aVe cc623 cc744 Spacious with entry Bright and1-bdrm spacious 2-bdrm. foyer, 3-bdrm), living room, (Conv 2-bathrenov with kitch & dining area.$575,999 $199K balcony & DM.
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West netHerland oF parKWay aVe rr865 West oF parKWay rr704 5410 cc753 4-bdrm (+&attic bd), 2.5-bth. 4-bdrm,co-op 3-bth. Living Spacious updated 2-bdrm, Charming 2-bth prewar with Living rm w/ wbfp,separate FDR & cenw/ fireplace, eat-inkitchen, kitch & indoor parking, diningroom room, windowed ter island kitchen. $4,200/mo finished basement. $6,900/mo decorative archways & refinished hrdwd floors. $365K
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5355 hh cc629 4705 HHparKWay prKWy cc756 Renovated Jr-4, living Luxury 1-bdrm with room, sunset dining room & eat-in kitch. balcony, swimming pool, No board approval. DM & avail parking. $299K $275K
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3601KappocK JohNsoN street ave. cc587 2621 palisade ave. cc741 cc592 555 Jr-4 (conv. Walk-inand levelspacious doctor’s office Bright 2-bdrm,Spacious 2-bath with 24-hr 2-BR) doorentry hallofand with seperate entrance and with men, swimming pool, sunset view balcony, with a glimpse the windowed receptionRiver area.and the $295K Hudson Palisades in the kitchen. distance. $425K $387K
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3636 rd cc632 290 West 232Nd st cc626 4901FieldstoN Henry Hudson parKWay cc760 Renov withwith sep kitchen with entry Brightstudio 1-bdrm balcony, 2-bdrm swimming pool, DMfoyer, and & sleeping area. Sponsor unit, living kitchen, dining parking availability. Features a room, entry/dining foyer, no boardkitchen approval.and $175K balcony. $329K renov central area air and conditioning. $225K
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JohNsoN aveNue 3-bdrm, 1.5-bath with $2,700/mo yard in multi-family house. West oF parKWay - 1-bdrm with dining area doorman and fitness room. Dogs OK. reNted $1,795/mo
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FieldstoN rr642 3875 Waldovic. aVe rr655 FieldstoN vic. cc762 Grand &8-bdrm, 6.5-bath, 3.5-bath, 7,500 sq. ft. Spacious bright 1-bdrm apt in6-bdrm, prewar co-op bldg. Features ft. Private house w/ Expansive a10,700+ large sq. entry foyer,swimming dinette kitchen with granitewraparound counterpool. 3-car garage. $17,500/mo & pool.floors. $22,500/mo tops, windowed bathroom andporch hardwood $239K
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3875 Waldo ave. cc636 cc631 4455-65 douglas aVenue 290 West 232Nd st cc764 Charming 3-bdrm, 1.5-bth Newly renov1-bdrm 3-bdrm,with 3.5-bathSpacious triplex townhouse with entry living rm with open luxe foyer, condosunken amenities, seasonalcorner waterunit views, deck,views, gar&den windowed kitchen. $295K rm & kitchen. $425K & 2 parking spaces on living Cul-de-Sac. $1,890,000
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West oF parKWay - Luxury 2-bdrm, 2-bath with balcony, $3,595/mo doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. West oF parKWay - Luxury renovated 2-bdrm, 2-bath $3,395/mo with doorman, tennis courts and fitness room. 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 exclusiVe neW exclusiVe 1-bdrm with river cc553 views. West oF parKWay - Luxury large 3135 JoHnson aVe cc759 4499 HH prKWy $2,725/mo 24-hr doorman, w/3-br), pool. 1 1-bdrm month free rent entry with foyer, Spacious 2-bdrmgym (conv 1-bdrm with balcony, doorWest oF parKWay - Luxury kitchen & hrdwd 2-bth corner unit with lrg updated Parking available. $209K screened-in $519K man, tennis balcony, courts .and fitnessflrs.room. $2,295/mo 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 North riverdale - Renovated Jr-4 with entry foyer living exclusiVe room, dining room and 3800 blacKstone aVewindowed eat-in kitchen. $299K cc630 Contemporary 2-bdrm,-2-bath penthouse with ceNtral riverdale Newlyduplex renovated studiocondo featuring privateflrs roofwith terraces, laundry andand indoor parking. $185Ka hrdwd seperate kitchen sleeping area.Features bright kitchen with granite countertops, dining area & C/A/C. $699K
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3103palisade FairFieldaVe ave cc736 cc621 2521 Spacious Lux 3-bdrm,3-bdrm, 2.5-bath 3-bth corcorner w/ open plan ner condounit w/ sunset balcony, living & & river dining rm. $980K $539K C/A/C views.
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3205 arliNgtoN avecc752 cc633 290 West 232nd st Contemporary 2-bth Bright 2-bdrm3-bdrm, w/ balcony w/open southern & views.balcony, Featureslndry a lrg in unit & prkg. kitchen & indr dining area.$725K $330K
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