Is there an iPhone app for this?

Sure I’m on a one-way ticket here. Wait, I know I am but that’s something my kids have plenty of years to joke about, and talk to their therapists about, later. My sister sent me this link that made me laugh and thought it also has use for when I chat with some of the [...]

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“Zipping” Around Riverdale

My husband is going away next weekend to visit one of his closest friends and he mentioned, offhandedly, that his friend was going to pick him up from the airport in a Zipcar. Zipcar!?!? I love Zipcar.
We were among the service’s first users in Manhattan and would use it for runs to Costco to buy [...]

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Talk It Out

I was not able to make it to Tuesday night’s debate between Councilman Oliver Koppell and his challenger Tony Cassino, sponsored by Riverdale’s association of co-op and condo boards, but I hear from friends who attended that the platform and atmosphere was what was to be expected. They tackled the usual topics, like: traffic, the [...]

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Paper Chase 2

Riverdale is one neighborhood with two newspapers with their own P.O.V. Here’s how they look this week:
Riverdale Press
Front page:
“Riverdale breathes a sigh of relief after synagogue bomb plot is foiled” by Kevin Deutsch
“Muslims are quick to condemn terrorist attempt” by Kate Pastor
“Patrol officers on horseback are hot to trot” by Kevin Deutsch
“Costs force students [...]

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Yahoo Serious

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RiverdaleNYfamilies/
It pains me to say this: I’m finding it difficult to keep up with the RiverdaleNYfamilies Yahoo Group. Perhaps we’re settled into our Riverdale lives? Or maybe it’s that the online bulletin board is the most useful for mothers of newborns and toddlers and now being a parent of school age children there’s not as much [...]

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Pita Art

A neighbor let me in on a little secret the other day, the pita bread at M & M Kosher Bakery is the newest Riverdale must-have. But get there early, she says, they usually sell out by 10:30 a.m.
I leaned in and listened a little closer as when M & M opened on Johnson Avenue [...]

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Taxi!

I love seeing yellow taxis driving around Riverdale (does it seem like they’re around more often, or is it just me?). Sometimes you feel like a slave to train schedules, bus routes, West Side Highway gridlock and bus-to-subway transfers that it’s nice to see a yellow cab and consider “I can jump in here and [...]

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Sweet Staycation

I’ve been agonizing over what I should do with my children this summer. What is there to do in Riverdale? What are their friends doing? What’s for their mind, their body? How much is too much? How much is too little? And, how much can we afford?
Opening day at our pool took away all of [...]

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–it Happens

Sometimes, I feel like all the crap (literally) on Riverdale’s streets is a mess (literally and figuratively) that no one knows what to do with. I feel like every time the family takes a walk around the neighborhood, we’re not looking up to see what’s around us, but down to make sure no one steps [...]

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Thankful Thursday

While three of the four men who targeted attacks on our area learned they’d be kept in Federal jail until their June 5 hearing, Riverdale moved on with life Thursday.
Quiet. Peaceful. Solemnity about “what could have been.”And thankful. Such is the atmosphere on Riverdale’s streets. Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly gave a [...]

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