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Recent and favorite writing from The Riverdale Press.

Biaggi drops Engel, endorses Bowman for Congress

The Riverdale Press, June 2020

““The world has changed, like, 180, practically overnight,” Biaggi told The Riverdale Press. “We would be remiss not to have leadership of the future to represent this district.”'

https://riverdalepress.com/stories/biaggi-drops-engel-endorses-bowman-congress,71949

FEMA to open 200-bed hospital at Van Cortlandt Park

The Riverdale Press, April 2020

“I think it’s a sign of how serious and widespread this is going to be,” Cohen said. “And how difficult the upcoming weeks are going to be.”

Taking a stand for mental health on MLK Day

The Riverdale Press, February 2020

“On the wider scale, as New Yorkers, we need to be having more ownership of what public safety means,” the VOCAL-NY coordinator said. “And creating a conversation about investing in the community’s group problems that actually lead to these encounters happening.”


Huge crowds protest off-hour service cuts

The Riverdale Press, Nov. 2019

“You still have people that work in the city. I have doormen who take the bus. They say, ‘I’m making it late, but at least I’m making it faster than the train.”


Nursing homes: Numbers don’t tell whole story

The Riverdale Press,

“However, that only does so much, because sometimes people are asymptomatic, they don’t have fevers, and they can be carrying the virus,” Pomeranz said. “It’s as much as we can do. We’d like to do more.”

Emergency workers help out essential workers

The Riverdale Press, April 2020

“We are trying our best,” Garg said. “To say that nobody is stressed out would be a big lie. Everybody is stressed. Everybody is concerned about their own health and safety, their child’s health and safety, everybody’s safety at large.”

Stranger in a strange new land?

The Riverdale Press, Nov. 2019

“And out of the pickup truck comes an older man with a rifle, a German shepherd dog, and a video camera.”

Neighbors reach out to help, and to find help themselves

The Riverdale Press, March 2020

“If you are in an apartment building, which a lot of New Yorkers are, text a neighbor, someone you know,” Vargas said. “Come up with a plan. Say, ‘We’re trying to keep each other safe in this time of precarity and crisis. We want to know if you have any needs, or if you have any resources.’”

CUNY contract debate reveals larger adjunct struggle

The Riverdale Press, Nov. 2019

“The bottom should be coming way up, even above $7,000. This harms everyone. It harms students, it harms adjuncts.”

SAR struggles after enduring institution’s ‘hardest week’

The Riverdale Press, Sept. 2019

“I told them, actually, right now, I can’t tell you trust the adults.”