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Suicide of rap mogul shocks Riverdale neighbors By MIAWLING LAM Chris Lighty, the influential hip-hop music mogul who fatally shot himself at his $1 millionplus Riverdale home, kept such a low profile in the neighborhood that many locals were unaware of his celebrity status. Police said Lighty, 44, used a 9mm black handgun to fire a single shot into his own head around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 30. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The New York medical examiner’s office officially ruled the death a suicide a day later and said Lighty died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police sources said he had been fighting with his estranged wife, Veronica Lighty, inside their five-story townhouse, located at 670 West 232nd Street, just moments before. Commanding officer of the 50th Precinct Captain Kevin Burke said, “He was going through a divorce and was in the process of moving out. He had a U-Haul truck in the front. “Words were exchanged and he went out in the backyard and shot himself once.” However, Lighty’s widow told the New York Daily News that financial and marital woes were not behind her husband’s death. She also denied reports that Lighty owed $5 million to the IRS.

Lighty, who grew up in the Bronx River projects in the Soundview section of The Bronx, is credited with bringing hiphop to mainstream audiences, turning it into a commercial commodity, and for discovering a number of leading rappers. The Bronx native, who was reportedly worth $30 million, was the longtime manager of 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes and Sean “Diddy” Coombs. But despite his worldwide success, several neighbors said they had no idea they were living next to a celebrity manager with such high-proﬁle connections. A neighbor who resides on West 231st Street said Lighty moved into the area “around six months ago.” The woman, who declined to provide her name, said he was a polite and friendly man who was usually seen spending time with his children. Longtime area resident Sura Jeselsohn, a neighbor who lives around the corner, never suspected that a touch of Hollywood came to settle in Riverdale. “I met Veronica and Chris on separate occasions, and both of them were friendly and charming,” she said. “I’ve met many wealthy and successful people in my life who are clearly impatient with the rest of us. I was stunned to ﬁnd out that these were famous

As the body of Chris Lighty is removed from his townhouse on West 232nd Street near Henry Hudson Parkway, friends of the deceased attempted to block the view to the gathered throngs. people—they couldn’t have been more pleasant.” According to property records, the six-bedroom townhouse sold for $1.145 million on Tuesday, March 6. As of press time, Riverdale realtor and listing agent at Sotheby’s International Realty Sanjya Tidke could not be reached for comment.

As news of Lighty’s death surfaced, more than a dozen family members and friends, including 11-time Grammy-nominated rapper Busta Rhymes, gathered outside his home on Thursday afternoon. Several men even held up ﬂattened cardboard boxes and a large white sheet to shield photographers when the medi-

cal examiner’s ofﬁce removed Lighty’s body from the scene at 3 p.m. Friends resumed the task of packing the victim’s belongings into the U-Haul truck once the medical examiner had left. A few hurled threatening comments at reporters and photographers at the scene. One told Continued on Page 19

New city council district will look a lot like the old city council district By MIAWLING LAM It’s a case of you win some, you lose some for City Council District 11 under preliminary draft maps released by the New York City Districting Commission. The 15-member body unveiled redrawn boundaries for all 51 City Council districts, including eight in The Bronx, on Tuesday. The plan reveals only minor changes for City Council District 11, which encompasses Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Woodlawn and Spuyten Duyvil. According to the draft plan, the district is set to gain small parts of Woodlawn and Williamsbridge but will lose tiny sections of Bedford Park and Kingsbridge Heights. Districting Commission chair Benito Romano stressed the boundaries are not yet ﬁrm. “I want to mention that this map is preliminary,” he said on Tuesday. “It does not purport to endorse any particular lines. It is a starting point.”

Romano said two rounds of public hearings would be held before the commission submits its ﬁnal plan to the city clerk and Department of Justice in March 2013. He added that the next round of hearings—one in each borough—is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, October 2. The locations will be announced in due course. Districting Commission executive director Carl Hum said New Yorkers would be able to have their say on the lines when the agency’s mapping software goes live this week. “It will allow users to adjust lines and see the effect of that on districts and adjoining districts,” he said. “It will be preloaded with 2003 lines and the proposed lines.” Boundaries for the 51 City Council districts are redrawn every 10 years in order to reﬂect shifts in population and demographics. According to the last census, City Council District 11 grew by 2,516 people, bringing the total population to 163,226.

But in an attempt to evenly distribute the population among the districts, District 11 will now cover 156,071 residents. Cliff Stanton, a Van Cortlandt Village resident and the leader of a boycott against the Riverdale Review, is the only candidate who has declared a run for City Council District 11. The seat, which is currently held by Councilman G. Oliver Koppell, will be vacant during the 2013 citywide elections because of term limits for Koppell. The only other person currently registered to run for Koppell’s seat is Ari Hoffnung, a deputy comptroller for John Liu, who mounted a campaign during the last election. However, Hoffnung has previously indicated that he is not considering a run. Rumors have swirled about the political aspirations of several other area residents, including Community Board 8 members Andrew Cohen, Daniel Padernacht and Robert Press.

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MTA removes trash cans in new cleanup effort By MIAWLING LAM A pilot program championed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to remove trash cans from subway stations has expanded to The Bronx. Authorities announced all means of garbage disposal were removed from two Bronx stations—the 238th Street No. 1 and the East 143rd Street No. 6 platforms—on September 2. The controversial scheme is designed to control the vermin population and reduce the burgeoning number of trash bags that have to be collected from the system. Officials claim the expansion was spurred by positive results reported from a rollout last October at the 8th Street N/R station in Manhattan and the FlushingMain Street No. 7 stop. Since the launch, the number of trash bags collected at the 8th Street stop has been slashed by 50 percent and by 67 percent at the Queens station. But Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz said the proposal defies logic. “Maybe I’m not imaginative, but I’m having trouble believing that removing trash receptacles will make stations cleaner,” he said. “I hope they’re right, but it doesn’t make any sense. It’s like saying that taking away traffic lights will make cars stop at intersections.” Dinowitz acknowledged that trash cans attracted vermin but said that without receptacles, straphangers may be tempted to throw their rubbish on the ground, on the tracks or on the train car floor. As part of the expansion, trash cans have been removed from two stations each in The Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn,

and Queens. The affected stations in the other boroughs are The 57th Street F and Rector No. 1 stops in Manhattan; the 7th Avenue F and G and Brighton Beach Q stations in Brooklyn; and the 111th Street A and 65th Street M and R stops in Queens. According to an MTA press release, the locations were chosen to “represent average-sized stations both elevated and underground.” MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said the larger pilot would run until at least March. He said commuters who pass through the 10 participating stations would be encouraged to take their trash out of the system for disposal.

Assemblyman JEFFREY DINOWITZ: “Join me in voting for Eddie McShan for Civil Court.”

“We must have the most qualified and experienced people as our judges. That is why I have joined with community leaders and other elected officials in supporting Eddie McShan.” Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz

Congressman ELIOT ENGEL Boro President RUBEN DIAZ, JR. Councilman G. OLIVER KOPPELL State Senator JEFFREY KLEIN State Senator GUSTAVO RIVERA are all supporting Eddie McShan

Elect the best qualified person to the Civil Court on Thursday, September 13: Eddie McShan. We all want the best qualified judges in our Courts. The quality of justice people receive often depends on the quality of the judge.

He is the clear choice over [his opponent], a Civil Court clerk with an undistinguished record, who resides in Brewster, N.Y.”

The New York Times said our choice for Civil Court in the Democratic Primary was clear.

As a Special referee in Supreme Court and volunteer arbitrator in Small Claims Court, he knows what it means to apply the law fairly with justice as the only goal.

“Eddie McShan is a special referee in State Supreme Court and adjudicates divorce cases. He has a good judicial demeanor and experience helping litigants who represent themselves in court.

With your vote for Eddie McShan on Thursday, September 13th we will make sure we elect the best qualified person as our new Civil Court Judge.

EDDIE MCSHAN IS ENDORSED BY Eddie McShan “is the clear choice...” New York Times editorial, August 25, 2012

swer specific questions about the rollout, however she said officials would be in touch with Community Board 8 with locations and an installation timeline shortly. She added that the full implementation of the Riverdale Neighborhood Slow Zone was scheduled for next year. But Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, who led the fight and helped secure the slow zone designation, said officials have indicated that the speed bumps could be installed by the end of November. He said he would’ve preferred that the full package be rolled out by December but that it wasn’t possible. “I wish it was going to be finished by tomorrow, but that’s not how it works,” he said. “It’s a long process, and they don’t do this stuff over the winter, so we’ll have to wait until next year.” Despite the staggered implementation, Dinowitz believed the initial plan to construct speed bumps would help

Man injured in North Riverdale shooting By MIAWLING LAM Police are on the hunt for two suspects who struck and injured a man during a possibly drug-related shooting in North Riverdale. Investigators said two men approached Edwin Figueroa, 31, outside his 6687 Broadway apartment just before 7:50 p.m. on Friday, August 31. Commanding officer of the 50th Precinct Captain Kevin Burke said the victim, who resides on the third floor, was sitting on the ground-floor entrance of his building when two men, described as black or Hispanic, came up to him. “He was approached by two individuals, a

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single gunshot was heard and two men were seen running towards Yonkers,” he said. Captain Burke said Figueroa was hit in the lower abdomen and rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital. He left the scene in a responsive and conscious state and is expected to survive. Figueroa has 11 prior arrests for drugs and weapon possessions, so investigators are treating the case as a possible drugrelated shooting. Captain Burke said the victim is being uncooperative but that detectives have seized surveillance footage from the Yonkers side of the city line and are currently analyzing the tape.

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By MIAWLING LAM Speed bumps will be added to certain Riverdale streets by November as part of a staggered implementation of the city’s Neighborhood Slow Zone program. Department of Transportation ofﬁcials have conﬁrmed they are currently evaluating streets for possible future speed bumps near P.S. 24 and M.S./H.S. 141 in a bid to improve pedestrian safety. It is unknown how many speed bumps are being considered or where they will be located. However, it is understood the second phase of the rollout—involving a lowered speed limit from the current 30 mph to 20 mph, road markings and blue gateway signs, won’t take effect until next spring. Under the designation, the Riverdale Neighborhood Slow Zone will encompass all public streets from West 232nd to 246th streets between the Henry Hudson Parkway service road and Palisade Avenue. A DOT spokeswoman declined to an-

Community members have also previously claimed that motorists speed through the area, double-park, triple-park, block traffic and recklessly dart in and out of the four-way stop sign outside the two public schools. Slow Zones are marked by a prominent blue gateway at all streets entering the area, with signs noting the 20 mph speed limit. Speed bumps and the stenciled “20 mph” in eight-foot-long letters on the street also make it clear that motorists are in a reduced-speed area. The program is aimed at reducing the number of pedestrian fatalities, fenderbenders and traffic accidents in an area home to several schools, two houses of worship, a public library and a park. Applications are assessed based on a range of factors, including the number of traffic crashes within the proposed area and the number of local schools, senior centers and daycare centers in the area.

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curb speeding motorists and make local streets safer. “I think it’ll help. A speed bump is essentially a traffic-calming mechanism,” he said. “It has to slow down traffic, because otherwise you kill your car.” Dinowitz also offered his two cents’ worth and said he would put one on either side of West 235th Street. “I’d put one south of the (Spuyten Duyvil) library and one where P.S. 24 is,” he said. As the Riverdale Review reported in July, city officials agreed to establish a Neighborhood Slow Zone in the neighborhood after mounting public pressure. Locals have long argued that traffic-calming measures were desperately needed along the six-block stretch of Independence Avenue between West 232nd and West 237th streets because student lives were being put at risk.

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Around the schools... Manhattan College

The third annual Cardinal Newman Lecture will feature a presentation by Dr. John Churchill, secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, on Wednesday, September 12, at 4 p.m. in Hayden 100. The event is free and open to the public. Churchill’s topic will be Saving America from Efficiency: The Primacy of Meaning in Higher Education. The goal of the Cardinal Newman Lecture series, launched to celebrate the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, is to reaffirm the significance of the liberal arts as the core of undergraduate education. Cardinal Newman’s “The Idea of a University” stressed importance of liberal arts in the Catholic intellectual tradition and of education in the professions. Churchill earned a B.A. from Rhodes College, a Rhodes Scholarship to attend the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from Yale University. At Hendrix College, he served as dean, interim president, vice president for academic affairs and a professor of philosophy. In the 1970s, he worked as an assistant American secretary to the Rhodes Scholarship Trust and has since been active in the selection of Rhodes scholars. For information about the lecture, contact Claudia Setzer at claudia. setzer@manhattan.edu. Kelly Ahn has been named director of the college’s Center for Career Development. She will work toward building up the center’s career counseling and mentoring services, which include placing students in internships and jobs. Ahn most recently spent four years as associate director of Columbia University’s Center for Career Education, where she assisted undergraduate and graduate students within Columbia’s seven schools in assessing their careers and in finding a job or internship. She also spent a year refining and teaching a career development course. Before her tenure at Columbia, Ahn was an international education consultant at the Pagoda Institute in Seoul, South Korea, and a program director for HanKook University of Foreign Studies. While completing her master’s degree, Ahn worked in the counseling department at New Canaan High School in Connecticut and counseled urban minority college students at the Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS. She earned her master’s in educational psychology from Columbia University’s Teachers College and her bachelor’s in psychology from Hamilton College. “I am delighted to have a professional of Kelly Ahn’s experience join our staff,” said Dr. Richard Satterlee, the college’s vice president for student life. “Her background at Columbia has allowed her to work with students from a variety of fields with a diversity of interests. Kelly brings incredible energy and passion for helping students define meaningful career paths and attain positive post-college outcomes.”

College of Mount Saint Vincent

This fall the college will offer several Society for Human Resources Management noncredit and certiﬁcate programs

at its Riverdale and Manhattan locations. The SHRM Essentials of Human Resource Management Certificate Program class will be held on Monday nights from September 10 through October 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. Learning Systems Certification Preparation Program classes are now in session on Thursdays through November 29 from 6 to 9 p.m. Both are at the Midtown ManhattanCampus at 1233 Second Avenue. Classes for the Pharmacy Technician Certification Program will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from October 2 through November 20 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. at the Riverdale Campus. Classes for the Medical Assistant Administration Program will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from October 2 through November 20 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. on the Riverdale Campus. For more information or to register, call Belgica Collado at 718-405-3322 or visit mountsaintvincent .edu/spcs.

College of New Rochelle

Dr. Arleen Hogan, a strong advocate for adult learners, has been appointed campus director of the college’s School of New Resources Co-op City Campus. She began at the school as an adjunct in the spring of 2003, and the following summer she was recommended for a position as a member of the Instructional Staff Team in the area of psychology for the Co-op City Campus. She has since become a vital member of the campus administrative team while maintaining a strong commitment to the academic excellence of her students. She earned a B.S. in psychology from Fordham University, an M.S. in general psychology from NYU and a Ph.D. in psychology from The New School. “I am thrilled to embark on my new role as director of the Co-op City Campus of The College of New Rochelle School of New Resources,” Dr. Hogan said. “As an instructional staff member in psychology at the campus for eight years, I enjoyed teaching courses and providing academic advisement. Now I look forward to being able to do even more to assist our students in my new capacity. Moreover, as my family has lived in The Bronx for just about a hundred and ﬁfty years, I couldn’t be happier to help my own Bronx neighbors achieve their academic goals here at The College of New Rochelle.”

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Horace Mann alumni return diplomas over sex abuse scandal kids because we have all of these rules and regulations.’ Private schools do astonishingly little….The question is: How safe are your kids in private schools?” Boynton said. Apart from the protest and forum, the HMAC also hopes to raise a sizeable fund that will be withheld until Horace Mann complies with the group’s demands. Referencing the carrot and the stick idiom, Boynton said, “Sticks are bad publicity and protests. Carrots are money….[The fund] is the carrot.” Boynton stressed that the HMAC’s aim is not to hurt the school or further damage its reputation, but to help it. “We are trying to save the school,” he said. “The right thing can’t be the last thing you do. This is really about examining what the school is about and whether it has a soul and a mission beyond getting people into Ivy Leagues.” The coalition grew out of Facebook discussions following alumnus Amos Kamil’s bombshell piece in the New York Times Magazine alleging rampant sexual abuse by teachers at the elite private school through the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s. By organizing protests like the diploma dump, the HMAC hopes to “give people a chance to voice their dissatisfaction” with the school’s response by returning their “tainted” diplomas, Boynton said. Alumni may return their actual diplomas, or obtain a mock diploma from the HMAC’s website, along with a letter addressed to Headmaster Tom Kelly and Board Chair Steven Freidman. The letter reads: “I wish to add my name to those who have chosen to return our

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By AMAL ABBASS “We trusted you to protect us. Here’s my diploma back,” reads a flier calling for Horace Mann alumni to return their diplomas. The Horace Mann Action Coalition, an alumni group protesting the school’s handling of allegations of child abuse, posted the flier on its website over Labor Day weekend. Accompanied by the image of a blueeyed boy in front of a stack of books and a chalkboard, the message is clear: HMAC members feel betrayed by their alma mater’s response to the allegations, and they’re taking action. Now, the HMAC is organizing protests and a forum on child abuse in schools. The group plans to create a fund for Horace Mann to be held in escrow until the school “does the right thing,” according to HMAC member and 1981 graduate Robert Boynton. For the HMAC, which seeks to become a nonprofit, the “right thing” means transparency on the part of the school’s administration and board of trustees as well as an independent investigation into the alleged abuse à la Penn State’s Freeh report. “We ask the school to apologize to its victims and its alumni, and to retain appropriate persons of integrity to conduct an independent investigation,” the HMAC’s mission statement says. According to Boynton, the coalition is planning a fall forum on child abuse in schools that will draw the Polly Prep case, among others, into the discussion. “The paradox is that a public school can say, ‘We’re a safe place for your

diplomas to protest the school’s refusal to investigate the incidents of sexual abuse inﬂicted upon our friends and classmates by Horace Mann teachers over decades. It is clear that an institution like HM could not have allowed such criminal behavior to occur without willful ignorance, if not outright complicity.” Though Boynton declined to speculate on how many diplomas would be returned, saying the move was more symbolic than numbers-driven, he reported that the response from alumni has been swift. “We’ve received dozens of replies just this morning from people who returned their diplomas,” he said via email just days after information about the diploma dump was circulated.

SATURDAY NIGHT Se pt. 8, 2 012 Concert begins promptly at 9:50pm Doors open 9:30pm Our Beloved Shaliach Tzibbur, Dr. Elli Kranzler leads us in a spiritually inspiring concert followed by the recitation of Selichot prayers.

This is an event not to be missed. Sponsorships are available at $100 per person. Sponsors get a reserved seat at the concert. To sponsor go to www.thebayit.org/selichot or call 718-796-4730.

Free High Holiday Services are at 3:30pm on the following days:

Rosh Hashanah (Day 1) - Mon., Sept. 17 Rosh Hashanah (Day 2) - Tues., Sept. 18 Yom Kippur - Wed., Sept. 26 Celebrate the holidays at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale with a service that is sure to inspire. These services will be conducted in English and led by Rabbi Avi Weiss and Rabbi Steven Exler. All are welcome to attend.

Interested in an intimate High Holiday service? Not fully comfortable with an all Hebrew Service/Prayer Book? Join our High Holiday Learning Services with Rabba Sara Hurwitz for a more personalized service with explanations and open discussion about the prayers and Torah readings. The Learning Service is ideal for those whose background in Hebrew is limited, but for whom a desire for learning and spirituality is limitless. Learning Services meet on the High Holidays and monthly during the year.

ROSH HASHANAH (Day 1) Mon., Sept. 17 at 9:30am ROSH HASHANAH (Day 2) Tues., Sept. 18 at 9:30am KOL NIDRE (Yom Kippur Eve) Tues., Sept. 25 at 6:10pm YOM KIPPUR Wed., Sept. 26 at 9:30am Yizkor approx. 10:30am Neilah (Final Service) at 6:00pm

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High Holiday Services at Kingsbridge Center of Israel

Rotary Club to sponsor reading hour

Youngsters 3-12 years old are invited to participate in the Reading Program on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Kingsbridge Library, 291 West 231st Street, from 1 to 1:45 p.m. Readers will be grouped by skill level and encouraged to read, helped with pronunciation and word understanding, and for those without reading skills, interpret pictures. There is no charge for participation. The Rotary Club of Riverdale is part of Rotary International and sponsors the library reading project as a local community service. Adult volunteers who are interested in participating are asked to contact Karen Pesce, Secretary: (718) 549-4469.

Art auction and lecture at the Riverdale Y

The community is invited to a lecture and presentation by Shani Rozanes, Special Projects Coordinator at the Consulate General of Israel, on Sunday, Sept. 9, from 4 to 8 p.m., at the Riverdale YM-YWHA, 5625 Arlington Avenue. A wine and cheese reception and art auction will follow. Admission: $20*. Tickets available at the door or online. Proceeds will beneﬁt the Riverdale Y. Will apply to any art that is purchased. Art Exhibition, 4-4:30 p.m.; Lecture and Q&A, 4:30-5:30 p.m.; Wine and Cheese Reception, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Art Auction, 6:30-8 p.m. Local participating artists: Barry Bridgwood, Beverly Cataldo, James Love Cornwell IV, Luis Fonseca, Julie Gallanty, Elaine Galen, Cynthia Gubish, Daniel Hauben, Ruth Hammer, Paul Hertz, Noelle Knight, Eileen McManus, Julie Ades Richter, Nina Seigenfeld, Gary Stein, Stephanie Stein, Erika Velazquez You can bid on a special commissioned art offer by renowned artist, Peter Max This program is generously funded by the Hertz Family Trust.

Shaarei Shalom’s Selichot Program and Service

On Saturday evening, September 8, beginning at 8:00 p.m., Congregation Shaarei Shalom will celebrate Selichot in its sanctuary located at 5919 Riverdale Avenue. The prayers and melodies of Selichot serve to help prepare worshippers for the spiritual journey that lies ahead with the arrival of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The evening will begin with a thoughtful discussion led by Rabbi Steven D. Burton of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz’ essay on Sin from his book The Strife of the Spirit. Its service of Selichot prayers and beautiful music will begin at 9:45 pm led by Rabbi Burton and Cantor Ronald J. Broden with musical accompaniment by pianist Walter Winterfeldt. This is a service of introspective and penitential prayers infused with the music of the High Holy Days. The community is warmly invited to join the congregation for this special evening. Congregation Shaarei Shalom is a Reform Jewish synagogue. It offers a contemporary and participatory worship experience and prides itself on its inclusiveness of all members of the Riverdale

community, regardless of marital status, sexual orientation, race, age, or creed. It is dedicated to embracing the diversity within the Reform Jewish movement. To learn more about the congregation, weekly Shabbat services, membership, its religious school, High Holy Days observances and tickets, and its many program offerings, please call (718) 796-0305 or e-mail: shaareishalomriverdale@gmail. com or visit its website at www.shaareishalomriverdale.org.

Uptown Coffeehouse to feature Danny Kalb

The Uptown Coffeehouse opens its’ 26th season with Danny Kalb on Sunday, September 9, at 6pm., at our new address: The Uptown Coffeehouse, City Island Community Center, 190 Fordham Street, lower level, City Island, NY 10464, (718) 885-2955, Admission is $15.00, children under 12, $5.00. Bronx Cultural Cards are accepted. Danny Kalb founding member of The Blues Project is considered one of America’s foremost guitarists and blues artists. His playing has been called both mesmerizing and pure magic, and in a few chords Danny has shown why he’s considered by many to be a guitarist in the class of Eric Clapton or Carlos Santana. Kalb’s forthcoming album ‘Moving in Blue’, recorded with Blues Project bandmates Al Kooper and Roy Blumenfeld, is due out this fall. A Mount Vernon, NY native, Danny picked up the guitar at age 13 and never put it down. He later honed his trade jamming with greats John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters and soon became an established player in the Folk and Blues revival scene of Greenwich Village. The Blues Project ﬁrst album, ‘The Blues Project Live at Café Au Go-Go’ won them their ﬁrst gold record, and ‘Alberta’ and ‘Down to Louisiana,’ became Danny’s signature tunes establishing him as one of the preeminent blues players of his generation. Whether playing old standards or originals Danny is an authentic bluesman who makes each song his own. Danny Kalb Hello Hannah Blues Danny Kalb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= LFVraPR35bM&feature=related

Riverdale Y senior center to hold open house

The Riverdale Y Senior Center will host a rededication and open house on Sunday, September 9 from 10 am - 3 pm. Adults of any age are welcome to experience the Y’s programs at no charge. During the morning, participants will be able to sample many of the classes offered at the Center: self hypnosis at 10 a.m.; portrait demonstration at 10 a.m.; opera appreciation at 10:30 a.m.; exercise at 10:30 a.m.; mindful meditation at 11 a.m.; creative writing at 11 a.m.; painting on silk scarves at 11:30 a.m.; court room drama at 11:30 a.m.; luncheon at 12 noon; music and dancing at 1:30 p.m. Classes will be followed by a gourmet hot kosher lunch (the Y is under the supervision of the Vaad of Riverdale). The day’s celebration will conclude with a dance down memory lane where attendees will sway to tunes both current and classic.

‘Our Senior Center is newly invigorated,’ says Marti Michael, the Y’s executive director. ‘We have a new Senior Center director, Sharon Asherman, and our new chef, Ian Nerwen, new kitchen equipment and dining room furniture. The new chef’s mouthwatering creations-fondly referred to among locals as ‘food gone deliciously right’-have already become legendary among members of the Y’s Senior Center. Participation in our program is up 25% since our new chef has joined the Y. Add to that a host of new programming for adults and you have, in effect, a new senior center, even though we’ve been in business for decades!’ Included among the list of invitees to the September 9th Open House are Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Councilman Oliver Koppel, Senator Jeffrey Klein and Borough President Ruben Diaz. The Riverdale Y Senior Center is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue, and it is the only city-funded senior center in North Riverdale. It serves a diverse community of adults age 60 and older. For further information, please contact Sharon Asherman at 718.548.8200 x 230.

Registration open for RCT’s theater workshop

Registration is now open for RCT’s Broadway Babies Musical Theatre Workshop, for kids in Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades. The workshop will be taught by Director/Actress/Singer Antonia Barba and will be offered on Sunday’s at the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy at 1pm beginning September 30th. This class introduces children to the unique aspects of Musical Theatre performance. Students will learn the basics of staging, vocal production, diction, projection, and performing in group numbers. We will learn and perform songs and dances from such Broadway shows as “The Little Mermaid”, “Annie’,’Newsies” and other great classic shows. Most importantly this class is focused on having fun and developing a love of musical theatre, singing and dancing. Students will work on stage, with a ﬁnal presentation for family and friends, giving the students the opportunity to perform before a live audience. This is a 50 minute class and runs for 12 weeks. Fees are $275 which includes a music folder, song CD, DVD of ﬁnal presentation and a Broadway Babies T-shirt. To register log on to WWW.

Kingsbridge Center of Israel, located at 3115 Corlear Avenue (near West 231st Street), Bronx, NY 10463, will have Rosh Hashanah services on Sunday evening, Sept. 16; Monday, Sept. 17; and Tuesday, Sept. 18. Yom Kippur services will be on Tuesday evening, Sept. 25; and Wednesday, Sept. 26. Services will be conducted by Rabbi Davidi Jo. High Holiday Cantor is Chaim Dubin. Tickets: members $150; nonmembers $185. For more information, call 718-5481678.

Competitive swim teams at Riverdale Y

Riverdale Rapids Development and Competitive Swim Teams at the Y Practices available Sunday-Thursday afternoons. Teamwork, good sportsmanship, flawless technique and self-discipline are some of the many attributes your talented young Olympians will learn as part of our up-and-coming swim teams! Proficiency and comfort with all 4 competitive strokes: freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke are necessary. Try-outs are required and will be held September 10, 11, 12 and 13 from 4:45pm6:30pm. For pricing check our website or contact the aquatics director.The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue. For more information contact Raquela Sheeran at 718-548-8200, ext. 239 or email RSheeran@RiverdaleY.org. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue

John Churchill, Ph.D., secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, America’s oldest and most widely recognized collegiate honor society, will present at the third annual Cardinal Newman Lecture at Manhattan College on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at 4 p.m. in Hayden 100. His presentation, Saving America From Efﬁciency: The Primacy of Meaning in Higher Education, is free and open to the public. Churchill attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1971 with a B.A. He had the opportunity to study as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, receiving one of the highest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world, and was later awarded a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978. Having previously served as vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college at Hendrix College, Churchill was also a professor of philosophy and twice interim president of the college. In the 1970s, he worked as an assistant American secretary to the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, and has been active since that time in the selection of Rhodes Scholars. The Cardinal Newman Lecture was launched at Manhattan College in 2010 to celebrate Cardinal John Henry Newman’s beatiﬁcation, which occurred on Sept. 19, 2010, in Birmingham, England, at a

ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI. The goal of the lecture series is to reafﬁrm the signiﬁcance of the liberal arts as the core of undergraduate education. Cardinal Newman’s The Idea of a University stressed the central place of the liberal arts in the Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as education in the professions. Manhattan College is one of 280 institutions in the United States with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, which celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. For questions regarding the lecture, please contact Claudia Setzer by email at claudia.setzer@manhattan.edu. Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and accessible by MTA subway line No. 1. For directions to the campus, visit www.manhattan.edu.

“Respect Life Committee” schedules meeting

The “Respect Life Committee” of St. Margaret of Cortona Church will discuss its plans and events for the coming year, at its next meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17th, according to Barbara Meara, the committee’s chairwoman. Mrs. Meara explained that in the course of the 2012-13 year, there will be speakers some evenings and videos shown at other times. “We also do ‘spiritual adoptions’ and provide referrals to women who may be

facing an unexpected pregnancy. Over the years we have assisted many women in need. Committee members are in touch with a network of pregnancy care centers, as well as organizations that can provide help to a family after a child is born,” she said. The Respect Life Committee meets on the third Monday of each month, at 7:30 p.m., in the rectory meeting room, St. Margaret of Cortona Church, 6000 Riverdale Ave., at West 260th St. The public is invited and light refreshments are provided. Further information may be obtained by calling Mrs. Meara at 718--543-5091.

Riv. Choral Society accepting new members

The Riverdale Choral Society, led by Music Director John Lettieri, will continue rehearsals on Wednesday September 12, 2012 for their ﬁrst concert of the 20122013 season, December 2, 2012. The program will include Francis Poulenc’s masterpiece ‘Gloria’, along with more selections of Poulenc and others. The September 12 rehearsal is open to all. Singers of all experience levels are encouraged to attend. Rehearsals are Wednesdays from 7:30pm-9:45pm at Christ Church Riverdale, 252 St. and Henry Hudson Parkway East, where there is street parking available and easy access to public transportation. Since 1964, the Riverdale Choral Society has been bringing joy to the

Riverdale Y to feature Israel update

The Riverdale YM-YWHA will have an Israel update presented by Shani Rozanes, Special Projects Coordinator at the Consulate General of Israel. A wine and cheese reception and art auction will follow the lecture. The event will happen on Sunday, September 9 from 4-8pm at the Riverdale Y. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue, Bronx, NY. Admission is $20 and are available online at www. RiverdaleY.org. All proceeds will beneﬁt the Y. This program is generously funded by the Hertz Family Trust.

Flea market at St. John’s Church

St. John’s Church will host a ﬂea market on Saturday, Sept. 15, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The sale will be held at the Old St. John’s School located at 3030 Godwin Terrace in the Bronx. Clothes, jewelry, accessories and brica-brac will be sold at bargain prices. Free parking will also be available so get there early and snare yourself a great ﬁnd. For more information, please call 718-543-3003.

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Manhattan College hosts Cardinal Newman Lecture

community through performances of high-quality choral music. Our welcoming, diverse group of men and women rehearses weekly under professional artistic direction, singing both traditional and adventuresome repertoire. Through live concerts and community outreach, the chorus enriches the cultural life of the greater Riverdale area. Additional information can be obtained at the RCS web site: www.riverdalechoral.org.

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Thursday, September 6 Kingsbridge

BABY LAPSIT 10:30 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Stories, songs, ﬁngerplays, puppets and ﬂannelboard illustrations for babies birth-18 months for parents/caregivers. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Riverdale

BILINGUAL BIRDIES 11:30 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue A foreign language (Hebrew) and live music program for children ages newborn to ﬁve years old with parent/caregiver. The bilingual musicians teach through live music, movement, puppetry and games. Each session ends with a lively bubble dance party! Children learn basic vocabulary and short phrases while playing with instruments and fun props. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Kingsbridge

Riverdale

ISRAEL UPDATE 4 p.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue An Israel update presented by Shani Rozanes, Special Projects Coordinator at the Consulate General of Israel. A wine and cheese reception and art auction will follow the lecture. Admission is $20 and are available online at www. RiverdaleY.org.

Monday, September 10 Spuyten Duyvil

BOOK TALK 11 a.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Each participant briefly describes & shares thoughts about a book -fiction or non-fiction-recently read. Discussion & recommendations are the happy result of this sharing. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

Kingsbridge

WRITER’S CIRCLE 1 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Are you an aspiring writer? Join our writer’s group to share your work and get feedback from other members. All types of writing are welcome, whether it’s ﬁction, memoir, poetry, or other! For more information, call 718-548-5656.

BOOK DISCUSSION 6 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Get the neighborhood read. Check out what the librarian has recommended, and hear what others think about it. We’ve got the books, now we need you to talk! This month’s discussion will be of the book The Free World by David Bezmozgis. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Friday, September 7

Riverdale

Kingsbridge

STAY WELL EXERCISE 10 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Stay Well volunteers certiﬁed by the NYC’s Department for the Aging will lead participants in a well-balanced series of exercises for seniors of all ability levels. Please wear loose comfortable clothing. Exercise equipment will be provided. Those participating in the exercises must sign an activity release form. Audience: Adults, 50+. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Kingsbridge

TEEN ADVISORY GROUP 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street What’s happening in your world? What’s the hottest book, movie, or cd right now? What programs does the library need? Let us know, and you can earn community service credit for your school. For ages 13 to 18 years. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Saturday, September 8 Kingsbridge

READING HOUR 1 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Youngsters 3-12 years old are invited. Readers will be grouped by skill level and encouraged to read, helped with pronunciation and word understanding. There is no charge for participation. For more information, contact Karen Pesce at 718-549-4469.

Riverdale

SELICHOT PROGRAM 8 p.m. Congregation Shaarei Shalom 5919 Riverdale Avenue The prayers and melodies of Selichot serve to help prepare worshippers for the spiritual journey that lies ahead with the arrival of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. For more information, call 718-796-0305 or visit www.shaareishalomriverdale.org.

Sunday, September 9 Riverdale

OPEN HOUSE 10 a.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue The Riverdale Y Senior Center will host a rededication and open house. Adults of any age are welcome to experience the Y’s programs at no charge. For further information, please contact Sharon Asherman at 718.548.8200 x 230.

Riverdale

ART LECTURE & AUCTION 4 p.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue The community is invited to a lecture and presentation by Shani Rozanes, Special Projects Coordinator at the Consulate General of Israel. A wine and cheese reception and art auction will follow.

CB8 MEETING 7:30 p.m. Riverdale YM-YWHA 5625 Arlington Avenue Meeting of the Land Use Committee of Community Board 8. For more information, call 718-884 –3959.

Tuesday, September 11 Riverdale

e-READER HELP 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Learn how to download free e-books from the New York Public Library. Get help on using your iPad, Kindle or other e-reader. Audience: Adults, 50+. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Wednesday, September 12 Riverdale

TAI CHI 10 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue This tai chi (Sun Style) includes agile steps and exercises that may improve mobility, breathing and relaxation. Tai chi has been show to reduce pain and stiffness, increase ﬂexibility, enhance muscle strength, improve concentration and memory, and help people cope with stress and depression. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Riverdale

BRANDEIS GROUP MEETING 12:30 p.m. Riverdale Temple West 246th St. & Independence Ave. The Riverdale Chapter of the Brandeis National Committee will hold its ﬁrst meeting of the new year. The annual “Study Group Sampler” will be presented during which the Study Group Program will be discussed and its leaders will describe their courses which are open to all members.

Riverdale

LECTURE 4 p.m. Manhattan College Hayden Hall, Room 100 John Churchill, Ph.D., secretary of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, will present at the third annual Cardinal Newman Lecture. His presentation, Saving America From Efﬁciency: The Primacy of Meaning in Higher Education, is free and open to the public. For more information, email: claudia. setzer@manhattan.edu.

Spuyten Duyvil

ART LECTURE 5:30 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Through slides & a lecture presened by a docent based on an exhibit currently at the Jewish Museum, the work of Edouard Vuillard will be highlighted. The friends & patrons who supported this artist from the ﬁn-de-siecle into the early 20th century will also be part of the discussion. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Life hasn’t been so easy lately in The Big Easy, but former Riverdale rabbi Uri Topolosky managed to accomplish his mission there in the lingering wake of Hurricane Katrina. He left his post as assistant rabbi at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in 2007 and headed down to New Orleans with his wife, Dahlia, a psychologist, and their two sons (they now have two daughters as well) to rebuild Congregation Beth Israel and serve as its spiritual leader. The synagogue building and most of its contents were destroyed by the 2005 hurricane. For seven years, the displaced Modern Orthodox congregation found refuge five miles away—Gates of Prayer, a Reform congregation in Metairie, reached out to offer them use of a chapel and lease them some office space. The arrangement remained in effect until Sunday, August 26, the dedication of Beth Israel’s new synagogue. The site is next door to Gates of Prayer, and between the two buildings is a new common playground. “We built a playground at the center of the two buildings that will be shared by the two congregations,” Rabbi Topolosky said. “It’s a statement that we have different practices and beliefs but at the end of the day, we remind ourselves that we are one Jewish family.” In the dedication ceremony attended by H.I.R.’s Rabbi Avi Weiss, congregants formed a procession—accompanied by a New Orleans-style brass band—and carried five Torahs from their temporary home into their very own synagogue.

“It was incredibly special for us to host Rabbi Avi Weiss here, my mentor, and share with him just another example of how his vision of Open Orthodoxy is taking root in our Jewish world,” Topolosky said. Not long after the dedication came Hurricane Isaac, and the new building got its ﬁrst test. “We were dealt with a healthy dose of humility, dedicating our new sanctuary, with all its strong brick, concrete and steel, and then evacuating in the face of nature, fully understanding how tenuous our building really is,” Topolosky said. “We are reminded that the strongest ‘things’ in life are perhaps not ‘things’ at all: Our faith, our love. I believe our community has a message to share about resilience in the face of disaster, and the spirit of collaboration that has helped us reach this day.” On Friday, August 31, the Topoloskys returned home from what the rabbi called a “hurrication” in Birmingham, Alabama. “The building was ﬁne,” he said, aside from some “wind-driven rain damage that soaked the carpets in two small rooms.” He sent a message to the community that began, “The experience of the past week has been surreal. We went from the highs of a dedication weekend to the throes of an evacuation. “I was still bouncing in my shoes from the reverberations of the brass band that led our Torahs into their new home while I packed our kids into the car for our Hurrication to Birmingham, Alabama.” “We give our thanks to God for spar-

Dr. Dahlia Topolosky and former Riverdale Rabbi Uri Topolosky with Elyon, 8, Itai, 6, Adi, 3, and Liat, 16 months. ing us from greater devastation and loss of life,” the message concluded, “and our hearts go out to all those still without power, with trees through their roofs, and with trembling memories of a frightful night with the storm. May we continue to lean on each other during our cleanup.” It’s been reported that some 2,000 young adults have moved to the region in recent years. Young Jewish professionals, including those returning to the area and those new to the area, were encouraged and assisted by the Jewish

Newcomers Program, an initiative of the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans. “I think the emotions have changed,” Topolosky told a local paper. “Five years ago we were so focused on what we needed to have our shul restored. “We needed a building. We were so focused on what we had lost in terms of the physical structure, in terms of the contents, we were still grieving. “We’ve now turned the corner. We’re not talking about recovery. We’re talking about the future.”

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Manhattan College hires two locals By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER The commute to work will now be very brief for Dr. Joe Cutbirth and Dr. Val Kolesnikov, two new Riverdale residents who have joined the faculty at Manhattan College this semester. In the communication department, media studies expert and seasoned journalist Joe Cutbirth has been named assistant professor and advisor for the student-run newspaper, The Quadrangle. Cutbirth will oversee the journalism major, teach introductory and advanced classes and help to reﬁne the journalistic skills of students who receive the college’s Quadrangle scholarship. “Joe is among that rare breed in our discipline in that he has both a Columbia J-School Ph.D.—as well as a substantial body of academic research—and professional experience, having worked as both a journalist and a communication director and media consultant in Texas state politics,” department chair Dr. Thom Gencarelli said. As a political blogger for the Huffington Post, Cutbirth discusses politics and the social impact of mass media. As communications director for the Texas Democratic Party, he was involved in the 1994 re-election campaign of Governor Ann Richards and in the 1996 ClintonGore campaign. Earlier, he reported on government and politics for a number of media outlets and co-edited “Beaches, Bureaucrats and Big Oil: One Man’s Fight for Texas.” He’s held academic positions at the University of Virginia, the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, New York

University’s Department of Journalism, The New School’s Department of Media Studies, Rutgers University-Newark’s Department of Journalism and Media Studies, and Marymount Manhattan College’s Department of Communication Arts. His often-cited analyses on the relationship between satire and traditional journalism in presidential politics have appeared in books and journal articles. In the computer science department, Dr. Val Kolesnikov was appointed chair and associate professor, charged with developing and strengthening a newly independent department after its break from the mathematics department under the School of Science. Kolesnikov will get assistance in this mission from Dr. Peter Boothe and from Dr. Tina Tian, formerly of the New Jersey Institute of Technology. “Dr. Kolesnikov combines a strong interest in both quality teaching and research,” said Dr. Constantine Theodosiou, dean of the School of Science. “His combined qualifications and experience will be critical in the firm establishment of the new department and its future growth.” Before arriving at Manhattan, Kolesnikov was an assistant professor at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, and served as a teaching assistant at Kansas State University while completing his doctorate in computer science. During 17 years in the computer science field—as a software engineer, software application developer and computer software development programmer—he’s received honors for his research and has published a number of papers, including “InDiGO: An Infrastructure for Optimization of Distributed Algorithms.”

Blaze engulfs Marble Hill discount store 11 was open for business, as was the Subway restaurant next to Riverdale Furniture. According to the New York City Office of Emergency Management, subway services were affected, with No. 1 trains bypassing the 225th Street station in both directions due to a “light smoke condition.” When asked to estimate the total loss value of the fire, commanding officer of the 50th Precinct Captain Kevin Burke said the building would “probably be a total loss.”

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By MIAWLING LAM A severe two-alarm fire engulfed a local discount store early Tuesday morning, officials said. The blaze started at 2:48 a.m. at EZ 99 Cent Store, a single-story commercial building at 5213 Broadway in Marble Hill, an FDNY spokesman said. The fire also spread to three adjacent buildings including Ed Beauty Salon, Flowers by Zenda and Riverdale Furniture. Officials said more than 100 firefighters from 25 units fought to control the blaze and eventually extinguished it by 3:57 a.m. As of press time, there were no fatalities or injuries. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation. When the Riverdale Review visited the scene around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the odor of smoldering ruins was palpable. Hundreds of partially burned paper towel and toilet paper rolls littered the sidewalk and front area of the 99-cent store, while electrical wires perilously dangled from the ceiling inside. Broken glass was strewn all over the pavement in front of Ed Beauty Store, located at 5215 Broadway. However, Franco Bakery— three doors down—appeared to be unharmed and

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cordially invites you and your family to our

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY Golden Anniversary

Sunday, September 9, 2012 12 – 4 p.m. (rain or shine)

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The Great Lawn, 5901 Palisade Avenue, Riverdale For security reasons, backpacks, knapsacks, coolers, shopping bags, or other large bags, food, dogs and other pets are not permitted on the premises.

Chapter Archaeology Open House. For more information, call 914-862-5297.

JAZZ SAX 7 p.m. St. Paul’s Church 897 S. Columbus Avenue Enjoy a robus performance by Australian-born, New York based bariton and alto sax impresario Lisa Parot, accompanied by keyboard. For more information, call David Osborn, 914-667-4116.

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Friday, September 7 Tuckahoe

ITALIAN FILM 7 p.m. Westchester Italian Cultural Center One Generoso Pope Place Featuring the film ‘Umberto E,’ directed by Anton Evangelista (2012). Anton Evangelista is a New York City-based filmmaker. After graduation, he found a niche as a storyboard artist for advertising agencies, while landing acting roles in a variety of renowned films. He also worked as an Italian translator for Martin Scorsese and Dante Ferretti on The Age of Innocence. Umberto E is the epic story of Umberto Evangelista, a dynamic and charming ninety-year-old Italian immigrant living in New York City. The movie depicts his real life Cinderella tale, in which he chooses love and forgiveness as his weapons of revenge (45 minutes). Q&A with Director Anton Evangelista will follow. Must register in advance and prepay. Members $10, Non-Members $20. For more information, call 914-771-8700.

Saturday, September 8 Croton-on-Hudson

Native American Pinch Pots Workshop 9 a.m. Croton Point Nature Center Croton Point Avenue Grind clay, wet it, and wedge, roll and shape it into great art. For more information, call 914-862-5297.

Rye

VOLUNTEER CORPS WORK DAY 10 a.m. Read Wildlife Sanctuary Playland Parkway Join the corps and help beautify the sanctuary by removing invasive plants, helping with trail maintenance and clearing debris from the salt marsh. Lunch provided courtesy of Friends of Read Wildlife Sanctuary. For more information, call 914-967-8720.

Ossining

CANOE ON TEATOWN LAKE 10 a.m. Teatown Lake Reservation 1600 Spring Valley Road Enjoy a late summer morning on Teatown Lake looking for ﬁsh, turtles and birds. Please note this program is for adults and children ages 10 and up. Participants must have swimming and paddling skills and children must be accompanied by an adult. Registration limited to 15 people with 2 people per boat. Fee: $10pp for members; $15pp for nonmembers. Programs ﬁll quickly so registration is strongly recommended. Call 914-762-2912 x110 to reserve.

Sunday, September 9 Rye

EARLY FALL MIGRATIONS 7:30 a.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Bring binoculars to search for raptors, warblers and shore birds who are stopping over to feed on their way South. For more information, call 914-835-4466.

Tarrytown

HUDSON RIVER RAMBLE 9 a.m. Lyndhurst 635 South Broadway To celebrate the annual Hudson River Ramble weekends, Lyndhurst offers a complementary tour of the magniﬁcent historic grounds. The site reﬂects nearly 175 years of life on the Hudson River contained in 67 park-like acres that include 16 structures, such as a Lord & Burnham steel-framed greenhouse complex and the oldest regulation bowling alley in the United States. The guided tour will start from the visitor center. For more information, call 914-631-4481.

Croton-on-Hudson

ARCHAEOLOGY OPEN HOUSE 1 p.m. Croton Point Nature Center Croton Point Avenue Explore the past and view the collections. Come to the New York State Archaeological Association (NYSAA) Lower Hudson

GRANDPARENTS DAY 1 p.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Grandparents and their grandchildren can enjoy an afternoon of fun and old-fashioned activities on the farm. For more information, call 914-864-PARK.

North White Plains

FOOD AND MEDICINE 2 p.m. Cranberry Lake Preserve Old Orchard Street Learn how to forage for edible foods and helpful drugs on a hike through the woods. No collecting allowed at the preserve. For more information, call 914-428-1005.

Rye

LESS IS MORE 2 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Learn about life at the various levels of the forest canopy, from birds and mamals to insects using hand lenses, bug viewers and a tablecloth. For more information, call 914-835-4466.

Pelham

DANCING 7 p.m. Christ Redeemer Church 1415 Pelhamdale Avenue There will be an open house for you to try out this difference form of exercise (dancing). Children over 10 years accompanied by parents are welcome, as well as singles. Sponsored by the Pelham Promenaders Square Dance Club. For more information, call Dave at 914-738-3093 or Cynthia at 718-652-3714.

Tuesday, September 11 Tuckahoe

ITALIAN FILM 2 p.m. Westchester Italian Cultural Center One Generoso Pope Place Benvenuti al Sud, Welcome to the South, is an Italian adaptation of the French comedy, Bienvenue Chez Les Ch’tis directed by Luca Miniero. The manager of a postal service in northern Italy, near Milan, is banished for two years in southern Italy, in Castellabate, a town near Naples. What the self-pitying northern hero ﬁnds is at odds with his prejudices. advance and prepay. Members free, Non-members $10. For more information, call 914-771-8700.

Tuckahoe

FORMAGGIO: ITALIAN CHEESE 6:30 p.m. Westchester Italian Cultural Center One Generoso Pope Place Cooking Classes and Demonstrations. All classes take place in our full demonstration kitchen and include both a demonstration and a hands-on component. At the end of the program, participants will enjoy the meal they have created. Limited capacity. Must register in advance and prepay. Members $50, Non-members $60. For more information, call 914-771-8700.

Wednesday, September 12 Tarrytown

LECTURE ON FOOD & ART 7:30 p.m. Lyndhurst 635 South Broadway Ms. Peter G. Rose has lectured on a variety of topics related to Dutch-American culinary history at, among others: The Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Culinary Institute of America, New York University, and the New York Historical Society, as well as many other historical societies and libraries in New York State. This program is free and open to the public. FREE with reservations required. Add: 5 pm Mansion Tour and Box Dinner for $25. For more information, call 914-631-4481.

Thursday, September 13 Somers

LITTLE FARMERS 10 a.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Children ages 3 and 4 can have fun learning about the different residents at the farm through hands-on experience. A different animal will be featured each week. Fee $10; pre-registration required at muscootfarm.org or call (914) 864-7282.

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Aqua Zumba coming to the Y starting Tuesday, September 11, from 10:3011:3am. Get into shape while having a fun time dancing in the water with zumbastyle ﬁtness. Members are free but anyone can join the class for $10 day pass. For more information contact Raquela Sheeran at 718-548-8200, ext. 239 or email RSheeran@RiverdaleY.org. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue.

Parent and Child Classes starting at the Y this Fall

Parent and Child Classes starting at the Y this Fall on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. Our goal is to teach you how to teach your child the joys of being safe in and around the water. Classes focus on breath control, proper body holding positions, basic swim coordination and fun together time! Classes are grouped by age and are developmentally appropriate. Classes are scheduled throughout the mornings. Please check our website at www.RiverdaleY.org for times. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue. For more information contact

Raquela Sheeran at 718-548-8200, ext. 239 or email RSheeran@RiverdaleY.org. The Y is located at 5625 Arlington Avenue.

9/11 commemoration at Bronx Borough Hall

Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. and the Supreme Court of Bronx County invite the community to join them and as they pay homage to our families, friends and neighbors who perished on September 11, 2011. The commemoration will be held on Friday, Sept. 14, from 12 to 2 p.m., at the Bronx County Building, 851 Grand Concourse (on the steps of the main entrance). For more information and to conﬁrm your attendance, call 718-590-3522 or email lroldan@bronxbp.nyc.gov.

RCT announces fall auditions

The Riverdale Children’s Theatre will be holding auditions for their two winter produc-tions on Thursday, September 13th from 4pm - 7pm Sunday, September 16th from 10am - 2pm, at the Riverdale Jewish Center, 3700 Independence Avenue at 237th St. All levels of experience are welcome. Please prepare a short musical theatre selection (1 minute or less)

and be prepared to learn a simple dance combination. Auditions are open to all students in 2nd to 12th grade. This season’s productions celebrate classic and contemporary musical theatre. Peter Pan is the high ﬂying musical based on the play by James M. Barrie with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne. First produced on Broadway with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, this is one of the world’s most celebrated musicals. Featuring show-stopping songs, “Never Never Land”, “I Won’t Grow Up” and “I’m Flying”, Peter Pan will be presented in January 2013 at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College, with a full orchestra provided by Celia Cruz High School. This production will also mesmerize audiences with theatrical ‘Flying’ actors, overseen by legendary ‘Flying by Foy’ company. ‘13’ is a musical comedy about coming of age, teen traumas and middle school sur-vival. Music and lyrics Tony Award winning Jason Robert Brown, with book by novelist and songwriter Dan Elish, it features a brightly infectious score with songs like “Being a Geek” “Brand New You”, and “What It Means To Be A Friend”, It’s a rite of passage story that all ages can relate to. For this production, we are also

casting teen on stage musicians who can play bass, drums and guitar. ‘13’ will be presented in December at the Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy, MS/RKA 141. For more program and audition in-formation, log on to www.riverdaletheatre.org

Grandparents Day at Hebrew Home

The Hebrew Home at Riverdale will host the 50th Annual Grandparents’ Day Golden Anniversary, celebration on Sunday, September 9th, from 12:00-4:00pm, which will also feature the 14th Annual Rhythm on the River Concert with special performances by Vince Giordano & the Nighthawks. Grandparents’ Day, a national holiday to honor and appreciate grandparents, originated at the Hebrew Home under the leadership of the late Jacob Reingold. He was inspired by the idea of designating one day each year to celebrate grandparents—an idea he put into effect by creating Grandparents’ Day in 1961 at the Home. That ﬁrst celebration received a special tribute from President John F. Kennedy. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed Grandparents’ Day a national holiday. The Home celebrating Grandparents’ Day has since become a strong yearly tradition to the community.

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Back to school and to the polls

This week our children will be headed back to school, and we wish them well. We also will be thinking of their teachers, seemingly assaulted and blamed for every thing that goes wrong in the schools. Make no mistake about it, there is much to criticize in our schools. But the dedication and ability of the New York City teachers is not one of them. This year parents should be extra cautious. Lots of what they are told by principals, Chancellor Walcott and Mayor Bloomberg is simply wrong. After a decade of distortion, deception and sometimes downright lies, the public school system as a whole is in considerably worse shape than ever before. If you are told that a music teacher has been lost due to budget cuts, don’t accept this. In most cases funding this year has been remarkably similar and even increased from last year. If music or other special area teachers are “lost,” look at the totality of the budget. If a principal can “divide and conquer” his or her staff by “excessing” special area teachers, all they are doing is an end run around the union’s seniority rules. Special education is yet another area that parents should look at carefully. This year the city accelerates its policy of ending “self-contained” special education classes in favor of a so-called “inclusion” model. We have misgivings over this, particularly when it is combined with the planned ending of the neighborhood school concept. It is no secret that the Bloomberg administration opposes the concept of schools that intrinsically “belong” to the neighborhoods in which they are located. Children should have a right to a seat in a neighborhood school and should be given preference for such seats. But the mayor has already eliminated the concept of neighborhood high schools, is well down the road to the elimination of such schools at the middle-school level, and is actively pursuing this agenda even in our elementary schools. If this weren’t the case, then the “inclusion” classes should really provide special education students with the “least restrictive environment” that the law demands: if this is the model we are using, then no special education student need be bused to neighborhoods other than the one he or she lives in. The stakes are much higher than in previous years when special education children were in self-contained classes, separated from other students. The indiscriminate mixing of children with different needs from different communities puts enormous pressure on teachers to teach to so many levels that success becomes nearly impossible. The concept of “differentiated learning” is one that meets success largely in the minds of the educrats who support it, and rarely in the real world in which the rest of us – and our children – live. Finally, the city has put into place a new discipline code, one that removes many of the traditional punishments that have been meted out in the past. Replacing suspensions is nonsense such as “conﬂict resolution” and other devices that the Daily News rightly criticized in an editorial on Sunday as “psychobabble” and “touchy feely goobledegook.” The News bemoans the loss of “command authority with consequences” under the city’s new mushy rules, and so do we. It is not that suspensions were a panacea. But for a few days, parents were forced to confront their children’s behavior problems, and the reality is that unless parents assume a primary role in the discipline of their own children, all the rest is for naught. *****

Our Primary Election Choices:

Next Thursday, September 13th, a primary election will be held to decide the Democratic candidates for a handful of posts. In an important race, voters in the adjoining 80th Assembly District will have the opportunity to jettison the extremely ineffective incumbent Naomi Rivera, in the news recently for her involvement in a gaggle of unseemly scandals that have launched no fewer than four serious investigations. A smart choice would be replacing her with local community leader Mark Gjonaj, whose outlook on government is fresh and creative. State Senator Gustavo Rivera has impressed us with his honesty and energy. While we had misgivings about his lack of community involvement when he ﬁrst arrived on the scene two years ago, he has allayed those fears and earned our endorsement.

Equivalency is a big fat Democrat lie

To The Editor: Israel’s Muslim enemies, Hezbollah and Hamas, indiscriminately shoot rockets into Israeli civilian areas hoping to kill and maim as many Jews as possible. Israeli defense forces retaliate, not however by in turn indiscriminately bombing any Muslim area, but by trying to pinpoint from where exactly the attacks were launched and who speciﬁcally were responsible. They would then attempt to kill only those particular people, and try to avoid (in many cases to their own detriment) hurting any innocent civilians. Yet, in the biased eyes of the haters of Israel and the anti-Semites (such as the United Nations and the New York Times) the actions of both the Muslim terrorists and the Israelis are considered equivalent since both actions resulted in people dying. I am conﬁdent, however, that most if not all of the people reading this letter (including Congressman Eliot Engel) agree with me that there is absolutely no equivalence

between deaths resulting from the indiscriminate shelling by the Arabs who initiated the attacks, and the resulting pinpointed retaliation by the Israelis who responded to those attacks. This so-called equivalency is in truth simply a self-serving lie. Now, let’s turn from the Middle East to here in America where in the current political campaign for president, the Democratic

Whatever happened to quiet space in libraries? To The Editor: I am writing this in my car. I would have liked to have written it in the Library, but I was removed—not bodily of course, but it might have well been. I still thought libraries were a place of peace, rest, and study. But it seems like the teenage checkout girl saw it differently. “Things have changed,” she told me. By that she meant it now seemed to be sanctioned for the young people to come into the libraries and play cards, not quietly of course!

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Party is trying to equate its obnoxious, disgusting, nauseating ads attacking Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to what it self-servingly considers equivalent negative ads by the Republicans attacking Barack Obama. The two most egregious and despicable of these Democrat attack ads are: 1) the ad featuring a steel worker who essentially Continued on Page 19

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When myself and another patron asked for some relief, we were told by the head librarian that “they are allowed to play here.” “You know they don’t have a recreation building,” I replied. “One thing does not have to do with the other,” she said, to which I replied, “you are also driving out the people who know how to use the library and respect it as a sanctuary.” The irony of the situation prompted me to write this letter. I am guessing many people are not ready for “the change.” The explanation given by the librarian was not acceptable, and I feel that with these ideas our libraries are being taken hostage. The regulations of the rules need to come from the librarians. This is the only way “order” can be restored. It really confuses me why, of all people, they are the ones who have capitulated in honoring the very heart and soul of what a library means to us. Vivian Epstein

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Equivalency Continued from Page 18 charges Mitt Romney with being responsible for his wife’s death by cancer — in other words, accusing Mr. Romney of being a murderer, and 2) the “MediScare” ad, showing Paul Ryan callously pushing an old lady in a wheelchair over a cliff to her death. These Democrat accusations of murder are beyond contempt! I challenge Congressman Engel, Assemblyman Dinowitz or any other Democrat politician to cite any Republican ad attacking President Obama that comes anywhere close to those two vicious, and over-the-top ads cited above. I state emphatically that they won’t be able to and that therefore any claim of equivalency on their part is a lot of bull – just a big, fat lie. Don’t fall for it! Incidentally, I highly recommend seeing 2016-Obama’s America. It will really open your eyes to what makes Obama who he is. The man is dangerous! Alvin Gordon

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Continued from Page 1 a reporter, “We told you once before. If I have to tell you again, we’re going to go at it and we’re both going to go to jail.” A slew of musicians and industry professionals took to Twitter to express their condolences, including Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Pete Wentz, Scooter Braun, Fat Joe and Omar Epps. Popular rapper and recent Bronx Walk of Fame inductee Fat Joe paid tribute to Lighty and said he would be “dead or in jail for a hundred years” if Lighty hadn’t signed him up in the early 1990s. “Many years ago, I was a young kid in The Bronx selling drugs, and I had a dream of becoming a rapper,” he told the Riverdale Review in a phone interview. “He saw the talent in me and signed me. He birthed me and my career. I’m mature enough to understand that he saved me and my family.” Fat Joe said he last spoke to Lighty two months ago during an event in Miami. The “Lean Back” and “What’s Luv?” artist said the pair joked around and had a brief heart-to-heart. During their exchange, Fat Joe said Lighty gave no indication that he was depressed or going through a rough patch. “He was telling me how proud he was of me and that I was doing really well,” he said. “He was a beautiful, handsome and lovely person. He was a legend. This is shocking. Nobody can believe it. “These are weird times in America. Who knows what’s going on behind the scenes.” Lighty got his start in the industry by schlepping records for DJ Red Alert in the 1980s and by working under Russell Simmons and Lyor Cohen at Rush Management. He founded his own company, Violator Management, and merged it with Primary Wave Talent Management to form Primary Violator Management last fall. At the time of his death, he was the chief operating ofﬁcer of Primary Violator—a management company and record label whose roster includes artists such as 50 Cent, Sean “Diddy” Combs, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes and Mariah Carey. According to Forbes, Lighty was extremely selective about whom he worked with, but he was extremely dedicated to those he selected. “I only work with artists I love, people I’d leave my vacation for or get out of bed at 3 a.m. to clean up a mess for,” he reportedly told the publication in 2006.

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