Renee Minus White wore a Chanel-like soft pink and cream suit with a hem down to the knees at her latest talk. She spoke with precision and an air of sophistication as she promoted her book, …
The corner of 242nd Street and Broadway has seen businesses come and go. Riverdale’s only bike shop catered to the neighborhood for seven years before it closed in 2017 and the famous Shortstop …
05/15/2025
Student debt moratorium was lifted earlier this month. Looking to talk to people.
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. In the last few weeks, the community has been up in arms over the delayed return of the Riverdale Y’s Sunday market. Since 2011, the …
For their first edition, the Enders Project enlisted their very own spokesperson and liaison, Ivonne Sanchez. As a Bronx native and longtime Riverdalian, Sanchez has deep roots not only within …
When Henry Peck, a junior at Horace Mann, switched the text on the projector from English to Chinese using ChatGPT, the room let out an audible awe. Teaching older adults how to navigate …
05/07/2025
Doing a story on perimenopause for Women’s Health Month. Would anyone like to talk?
American cuisine is relatively new when compared to foods around the world. But when it started to develop its identity, it took cues from the French. (Think of those early Betty Crocker recipes …
The northwest Bronx has changed a lot in the last 50 years and with nearly 200 works, artist Daniel Hauben has immortalized its neighborhoods and people in paint. Hauben grew up in the …
Municipal retirees are fighting a city plan to shift their health coverage from traditional Medicare to a privately administered Medicare Advantage plan run by Aetna. In Riverdale, that fight is …
Over the years, torrential rains have resulted in dangerous flooding problems from Riverdale to Kingsbridge and beyond. In 2021, 2022 and 2024 heavy downpours left drivers stranded along the Major …
Despite not having heating or air conditioning, the Kingsbridge Historical Society held meetings year-round at Edgehill Church at 2570 Independence Ave. This spring, the building got a major upgrade. …
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The Riverdale Press, a nationally known award-winning community newspaper, serves one of New York City’s most interesting and affluent communities in the Bronx.
The Press provides comprehensive coverage of the Northwest Bronx — including Riverdale, Kingsbridge, Kingsbridge Heights, Marble Hill, Spuyten Duyvil, and Van Cortlandt Village. Each week it reaches 10,000 families with hard-hitting reporting, lively features, action-packed photographs, and crusading editorials.
The paper is written for and about the people who live in these Bronx communities. It brings them news they otherwise couldn’t get at all, or could learn only on the grapevine. And it offers advertisers a way to reach Bronxites where they live, in a newspaper they depend on and trust.
The Press reports news that residents need to know to make their lives better — news about schools, crime, parks, housing, hospitals, transportation, and politics. It carries stories every week about events and organizations that binds communities together, from the Boy Scouts to church suppers to civic associations. And it includes guides to entertainment, shopping, and eating out.
In 1989, the paper became world famous when its office was firebombed, apparently in retaliation for an editorial defending the right to read Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel The Satanic Verses. For their courage in continuing to publish without missing an issue, the Steins, former owners of The Riverdale Press, were given the prestigious First Amendment Award of the Society of Professional Journalists. Later in 1998, Bernard Stein was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his editorials.
In 2008, The Riverdale Press was bought by another award-winning group of newspapers, Herald Community Newspapers, owned by Clifford and Stuart Richner.
Today, under the editor Michael Hinman and his team of reporters, The Riverdale Press offers hyperlocal community coverage that is second to none.