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Riverdale is a residential neighborhood in the northwest portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.
Riverdale is a residential neighborhood in the northwest portion of the borough of the Bronx in New York City.
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Thousands march, celebrate Israel at NYC parade
Tens of thousands of supporters of Israel crowded New York's Fifth Avenue on Sunday as part of the annual parade celebrating the birth of the Jewish state in 1948. This year's parade also commemorated the centenary of the city of Tel Aviv. One...Tags: Barack Obama, David Paterson, Regional Authority, New York, Calendars, Days, and Months
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Bronx Synagogues To Get Security Upgrade Grants
Two Riverdale synagogues, targeted in a bombing plot earlier this month, are slated to receive federal grants from New York State in order to improve security in each institution.
Governor David Paterson, along with city lawmakers, announced Sunday...Tags: Bronx (New York City), Terrorism, WPIX-TV, David A. Paterson, New York
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Thomas Berry dies at 94; cultural historian became a leading thinker on religion and the environment
Thomas Berry, a cultural historian and specialist in Asian religions who in his later life became a leading thinker on religion and the environment, has died. He was 94. Berry died June 1 at the Well-Spring Retirement Community in Greensboro, N.C.,...Tags: North Carolina, Fordham University, Colleges and Universities, Woodbridge, History
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Program aids dementia patients at night
The New York TimesThe patients were on the loose again, moving their shrunken frames through the nursing home's shadowy halls, chattering and giggling like children sneaking out of camp. It was after midnight. Almost everyone inside the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, along the...Tags: Mott Haven, Medical Services, Diseases, Long Term Care, Behavioral Conditions
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Dorms get bit of class
Associated PressPROVIDENCE, R.I. — River views, granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, 9-foot ceilings. This is student housing? When classes start this fall — if all goes as planned — about 300 students at Johnson & Wales University will...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Columbia University, Jeffrey Dinowitz, Clubs and Associations, Condos
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Clergy show support for targets of alleged terror plot
Special to NewsdayDozens of rabbis, priests and imams showed support Friday for members of the two Riverdale Jewish sites that were targets of a foiled terrorist plot this week. "It's very important, because when these types of things happen, Muslim leaders can't be...Tags: New Jersey, Terrorism, Islam, Pennsylvania, New York
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Close-knit Riverdale shaken by plot to bomb synagogues
jennifer.barrios@newsday.comLen Morse lives in upstate Putnam Valley, but spends much of his time in the Bronx enclave of Riverdale, where he runs two businesses and has found a place he loves. "It's a little heaven," said Morse, 62, as he stood in Vacuum World, his business on...Tags: Henry Hudson, Islam, Salman Rushdie, Hudson River, Yom Kippur
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Kelly: 4 Arrested in Terror Plot 'Wanted to Commit Jihad'
Worshipers arriving Thursday at one of two Jewish synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx targeted in a terrorist plot foiled by police the night before were greeted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly in a...Tags: Police Arrests, Police, FBI, Guerrilla Activity, Bombings
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Feds: NY Bombing Suspects 'Eager to Bring Death to Jews'
NEW YORK -- A federal prosecutor says the men accused of a New York bombing plot were disappointed that the World Trade Center wasn't around any more to attack.
Four men are accused of planting what they thought were explosives near two Bronx synagogues....Tags: Police, Justice System, Defense, FBI, Military Equipment
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Four arrested in plot to bomb New York temple
NEW YORK - The FBI arrested four men Wednesday in what authorities called a plot to detonate a bomb outside a Jewish temple and to shoot military planes with guided missiles. Officials told the Associated Press the arrests came after a long-running...Tags: New York City, Bronx (New York City), FBI, Weaponry, New York
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Man, 27, arrested in Bronx arrow shooting
A man accidentally shot a woman in the stomach with a 30-inch arrow when he fired it at a fence and it went through to the property next door, police said Thursday. Eric Collins, 27, was arrested Thursday on charges of assault, reckless endangerment...Tags: Police Arrests, Bronx (New York City), Police, The Associated Press, Law Enforcement
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Members of Tuskegee airmen invited to inauguration
martin.evans@newsday.comIT WAS the 1926 lynching of a black family near his South Carolina home that positioned Spann Watson to become one of the nation's first black military pilots. It is recognition of the success of those pioneering aviators - the all-black Tuskegee...Tags: California, Armed Forces, Defense, Tickets, Wars and Interventions
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