The CUNY Institute for Irish-American Studies presents Irish Musicians and Dancers, performing at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $50 ($5 off with student ID). For more information, call (212) 864-5400. (Listing courtesy of http://www.bronxmall.com/)

Published by BoogieDowner on October 10, 2008.

THE KINGSBRIDGE Heights Community Center, at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace, is offering free ESL classes (English as a Second Language) as well as preparation courses for the citizenship exam. For further information or to get dates and times, call 718-884-0700 ext. 194.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Mr. Fernandez recently amended his plans for the embattled property at 3882 Cannon Place, and according to city records, intends to build a two-story, 10-unit supportive housing...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

THE VAN Cortlandt Library, located at 3874 Sedgwick Ave., presents “Fall Book Club,” a reading and book discussion group for ages 6 and older, on Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 4 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 718-543-5150.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Lehman Center for the Performing Arts will host “An Evening of New York City Salsa,” at 8 p.m. The event will be held in the Concert Hall, which has a newly installed state-of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Lehman College’s Theatre Program will open the new season with a production of French playwright Jean Anouilh’s adaptation of the Greek tragedy Medea, at 3:30 p.m., in the Studio Theatre, on campus, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

JASA, VAN Cortlandt Senior Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave., features the following activities for seniors: daily exercise, painting, discussion groups, knitting, line dancing, movies and more. Case assistance services are available. Kosher lunch is served at noon. Call 718-549-4700.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The boy was walking at the southeast corner of West Kingsbridge Road and Kingsbridge Terrace at around 8 p.m. on Sunday when two men approached him, brandishing guns and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

Citing the existing noise and air pollution near his home at West Kingsbridge Road and University Avenue, Michael Murphy, a member of the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance and Our Lady of Angels...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The JASA Van Cortlandt Senior Center, located at 3880 Sedgwick Ave., will host keyboard player Alex Epelman, at 1 p.m.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

On Friday, Oct. 10, there will be stops from 9:30 to 11 a.m., at 3880 Sedgwick Ave.; and from 10 a.m. to noon, at 21 Knolls Crescent.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

THE FORT Independence Senior Center, at 3350 Bailey Ave., West 234th Street level, offers a wide array of activities, including music, exercise, crocheting, dancing...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

JASA VAN Cortlandt Senior Center, located at 3880 Sedgwick Ave., will host a live concert of big band, ballroom and popular dance standards, featuring talented...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The developer, Paris Gianopolous, argued that he got a shovel in the ground at 3333 Giles Place before the rules went into effect, although neighborhood advocates contend the plans outlining that construction were incorrect, and the building was never in compliance with regulations.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

...of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West. This special concert will feature a live performance by nine-time GRAMMY Award winner and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

The man was counting his cash in the hallway at 2840 Sedgwick Ave. on Sunday, at 9 p.m., when a stranger attacked him, stabbing him three times with a knife - under his left arm, on the left side of his back and on his right forearm.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 9, 2008.

...will perform a free concert of classical works in Lehman’s Music Building Recital Hall, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. W., on Sunday, Oct. 5 at 2 p.m. Featured performers include cellist Andre Emelianoff and...

Published by BoogieDowner on October 3, 2008.

The victim allegedly ran after Mr. Ortiz, chasing him for about two blocks, until he saw Mr. Ortiz toss the phone into a cluster of garbage cans behind 95 W. 195th St.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

Members of the Fort Independence Park Neighborhood Association and residents of 3850 Sedgwick Ave., many of whose windows abut the park’s basketball courts, are inching closer to a compromise on whether or not to close the park at night.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

THE KINGSBRIDGE Heights Community Center, at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace, is offering free ESL classes (English as a Second Language) as well as preparation courses for the citizenship exam. For further information or to get dates and times, call 718-884-0700 ext. 194

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

THE FORT Independence Senior Center, at 3350 Bailey Ave., West 234th Street level, offers a wide array of activities, including music, exercise, crocheting, dancing...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

The Lehman Chamber Players will open the musical season at Lehman College with a performance of works by Schumann, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Brahms, at 2 p.m., in the Music Building Recital Hall, on campus, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

The Ampark Neighborhood School, located at 3990 Hillman Ave., has a few available spaces in its second- and third-grade classes.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

The 29-year-old victim was near Jerome Avenue and 195th Street at around 11:20 p.m. on Sept. 22 when Mr. Ortiz, a 17-year-old from Amsterdam, N.Y., snatched the T-Mobile Sidekick from his hands and fled, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s Office.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

When employees of C-Town at 2891 Sedgwick Ave. came in to open the store early on the morning of Sept. 22, they found that the store’s safe had been damaged during the night, but nothing was taken.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

A 41-year-old man reported someone attempted to break into his home, at 3018 Heath Ave., on Sept. 26. When he came back from work that day, he found his front door was damaged, but nothing was taken.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

JASA, VAN Cortlandt Senior Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave., features the following activities for seniors: daily exercise, painting, discussion groups, knitting, line dancing, movies and more. Case assistance services are available. Kosher lunch is served at noon. Call 718-549-4700.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

Lehman College Art Gallery will hold a reception for the opening of an exhibition of paintings by Tony Bechara, called “Grand Canyon,” from 6 to 7:30 p.m., at the gallery, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West.

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

...of-the-art sound system and is located on the campus of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West. This special concert will feature a live performance by nine-time Grammy Award winner and...

Published by Riverdale Press on October 2, 2008.

JASA, VAN Cortlandt Senior Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave., features the following activities for seniors: daily exercise, painting, discussion groups, knitting, line dancing, movies and more. Case assistance services are available. Kosher lunch is served at noon. Call 718-549-4700.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

An employee of Stat Portable X-ray, Inc., who parked a commercial vehicle in front of 3400 Cannon Place last week, returned to find the company laptop, which had been on the back seat, missing, police said.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

Just before midnight on Sept. 16, 50th Precinct Officer Kevin Casey says he noticed Mr. Sierra and his accomplice — whose name was withheld because of his age — hovering with hands bleeding from broken glass, around a Dodge minivan parked at the northeast corner of Sedgwick and Reservoir avenues.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

3880 Sedgwick Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

THE VAN Cortlandt Library, located at 3874 Sedgwick Ave., presents “Fall Book Club,” a reading and book discussion group for ages 6 and older, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 4 p.m. This program is free and open to the public. For more information, call 718-543-5150.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

THE FORT Independence Senior Center, at 3350 Bailey Ave., West 234th Street level, offers a wide array of activities, including music, exercise, crocheting, dancing...

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

THE KINGSBRIDGE Heights Community Center, at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace, is offering free ESL classes (English as a Second Language) as well as preparation courses for the citizenship exam. For further information or to get dates and times, call 718-884-0700 ext. 194.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

Michael Spierman, director of the Bronx Opera Company and conductor of the Orchestra of the Bronx, will lead a series of lectures on “The Life and Works of Beethoven,” starting Thursday, Oct. 2, at 2:30 p.m., in the Towers’ Community Room, 3975 Sedgwick Ave.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

A 28-year-old woman parked her 2007 Honda Civic at the southeast corner of 197th Street and Reservoir Avenue overnight on Sept. 14, and returned at around 2 p.m. the next day to find it gone.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 25, 2008.

De la Cruz hosts the weekday morning talk show "Conexion Hispana" at WESX-AM in Chelsea, Mass., near Boston. He was visiting his children in the Fordham section of the Bronx. Police are looking for his attacker.

Published by WNBC on September 22, 2008.

According to police, the pair brutally beat De La Cruz, who was visiting his children in the Fordham section of the Bronx the weekend before last.

Published by CBS News (Channel 2) on September 22, 2008.

Gavin Scott is taken from the 52nd Precinct to Bronx Central Booking after his arrest.

Published by New York Daily News on September 22, 2008.

.“The visual is almost like heart surgery,” said Tony Perez Cassino, a member of Community Board 8 who, like many others, opposed the route of the project from its inception because it cuts through the center of Riverdale.

Published by New York Times on September 19, 2008.

THE KINGSBRIDGE Heights Community Center, at 3101 Kingsbridge Terrace, is offering free ESL classes (English as a Second Language) as well as preparation courses for the citizenship exam. For further information or to get dates and times, call 718-884-0700 ext. 194.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

The number of jobs in Kingsbridge and southern Riverdale has soared in the past decade, according to a report by a New York City-based think tank.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

But something is happening within the Marrero family. Eddie Marrero, who lives West 238th Street and Bailey Avenue, is among the workers who have been off the job for weeks now. He has never before had to take out a student loan for his son’s education, but that just changed.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

Folksbeine, the National Yiddish Theater troupe, will hold a special concert at the Lovinger Theater of Lehman College, at 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, at 2 p.m.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

The Friends of Van Cortlandt Park will hold a community forum to discuss improvements to the park, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Amalgamated Houses’ Vladeck Hall, 74 Van Cortlandt Park South, near Hillman Avenue.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

JASA, VAN Cortlandt Senior Center, 3880 Sedgwick Ave., features the following activities for seniors: daily exercise, painting, discussion groups, knitting, line dancing, movies and more. Case assistance services are available. Kosher lunch is served at noon. Call 718-549-4700.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

Police initially stopped Mr. Hendricks for urinating on the sidewalk, at the Perot Street and Sedgwick Avenue, at around 4:15 p.m., on Sept. 12. When he could not present a valid ID, he was arrested.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.

THE FORT Independence Senior Center, at 3350 Bailey Ave., West 234th Street level, offers a wide array of activities, including music, exercise, crocheting, dancing, pokeno, arts & crafts, cards, dominos, pool, trips and speakers. A complete lunch is served Monday through Friday at noon. A social worker is available on Thursdays. Registration is free. For more information, call 718-796-2950.

Published by Riverdale Press on September 18, 2008.