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New political feud: It’s Klein vs. Koppell By the RIVERDALE REVIEW STAFF POLITICAL ANALYSIS The huge defeat of Clifford Stanton in last week’s Democratic Primary and the selection of Andrew Cohen as the Democratic nominee, in these parts considered tantamount to final election, marks the end of a political machine that once held sway over important community institutions – despite never having met with any success at the polls. The Democratic party faction led by attorney Anthony Perez Cassino, of which Mr. Stanton was a key member finally seems to have run out of gas – although in truth, the group never won so much as a single election, not presenting candidates even for minor party offices that often control the levers of local political power. The group once controlled the local community board, with the connivance of then borough president Adolfo Carrion. Carrion packed the board with his supporters, who managed to sneak their putative leader, Mr. Cassino in as chair. Cassino doubled as Carrion’s campaign treasurer, leading to charges of possible conflicts of interest, and finally to the resignation of Mr. Cassino from his campaign post. When Carrion left to take a short-lived post with the Obama administration, the Cassino/Stanton group

was left with few political allies. In 2009, Cassino was defeated by incumbent Councilman G. Oliver Koppell. The bid to unseat the fading incumbent failed by an impressive two-to-one margin. Cassino and his loyalists blamed the Riverdale Review for what they alone saw as the inevitability of Cassino’s victory, they started a four-year campaign to put the Riverdale Review out of business. This year, with Clifford Stanton, who headed and financed those efforts to end free speech in this community, running for office against a total unknown candidate, Andrew Cohen, prospects looked bright for the Cassino/Stanton group. But Stanton inexplicably allowed a Manhattan businessman Robert Gans, to make large contributions to his campaign. And once again, it was the independent voice of the Riverdale Review that revealed that Gans was the owner of the infamous Scores strip club chain. This instantly became the top issue in the campaign, exploited by an independent group, Jobs New York, that was backing Cohen in a series of mailings. Hampered by concerns over potential conflicts and by the pro-censorship efforts of the last four years, Stanton did marginally worse at the polls against the neophyte Cohen, than Cassino did against Koppell four years ago.

So conditions would suggest that this group’s political day is done. What appears more likely to dominate news over the coming months is a possible struggle within the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club between Koppell, about to leave public office, and State Senator Jeff Klein, who has former an alliance between a number of breakaway Democrats and Republicans in the State Senate, forming a unique bi-partisan majority faction. Democratic power brokers in Albany are said to be recruiting Koppell as the best – perhaps only hope of defeating the popular Klein, entreaties that Koppell, about to leave office, is only too glad to receive. But this will put club leaders in the hot seat. Klein has emerged as a supporter and ally, while Koppell is clearly at the end of his long career, capping a largely unproductive twelve years in the City Council. Klein supported the club choice for Council, Mr. Cohen, at a crucial time. So as the sun sets on the failed political careers of Anthony Perez Cassino and Clifford Stanton, those who defeated them are now entering a new phase, fighting against each other for control of the local political scene, and huge influence in the state capital of Albany.

Interfaith ‘peacemaker’ launches lectures at Manhattan College By PAULETTE SCHNEIDER Renowned border crosser Ruth Broyde Sharone offered a mantra—strangers are people we haven’t yet met—to set the tone for her interactive lecture last week at Manhattan College. “My job is to encourage and cultivate border crossers around the world because that’s the next stage of where we have to go as a people, as a civilization,” she said. The talk was the first in a series offered by the college’s Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center. “Around 9/11, I usually have a program on interfaith understanding and peace,” said Dr. Mehnaz Afridi, the center’s director. Broyde Sharone, who has travelled the world to implement her message through deeds, has published “Minefields and Miracles: Why God and Allah Need to Talk,” an enjoyable account of her cultural exploration throughout Latin America. The voyage was spurred by her own first exposure to interfaith minefields—a school administrator excluded her from a college dorm, ostensibly “for dietary reasons,” although she had expressed no problem observing

the Jewish dietary laws while living happily with her Christian roommates. She also had a calling to create a documentary, provoked by a roadside billboard in California stating nothing more than “God and Allah Need to Talk.” The 2003 film describes a giant interfaith Passover seder that changed lives. The background music in the film was played by a band led by a Christian Arab violinist from Nazareth. Broyde Sharone first heard him play at a Yom Kippur Kol Nidre service, where he wove the tune of the Muslim call to prayer within the Hebrew liturgical melody. “I understood what he was doing,” she explained. “He was saying, ‘brothers and sisters, we’re not that far apart. The call to prayer is the call to prayer—it doesn’t matter who is being called to pray or what language it’s in. We know what the call to prayer is.” “You did musically what we as people can’t do humanly yet,” she told the musician at the time. “You made it clear to me that it’s possible.” Broyde Sharone’s goal was to Continued on Page 3

A TRIBUTE TO THE VICTIMS OF 9/11 was heard above the Henry Hudson Parkway traffic outside the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale last Wednesday. It was a clear, bright, sunny morning, just as it was on September 11, 2001. A solemn group, led by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbi Asher Lopatin, began chanting a memorial prayer at 9:59 a.m., the same time as the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed as the result of a terrorist attack on our nation twelve years ago. Rabba Sara Hurwitz and YCT staff member Ruthie Simon read biographies from “Portraits: 9/11/01: The Collected ‘Portraits of Grief’ from The New York Times.” Rabbi Steven Exler sang Rabbi Irwin Kula’s heartbreaking commemorative chant—victims’ final voicemail messages to their loved ones set to the cantillations for the Book of Lamentations. “Let love that defies the rule overpower hatred that defies the rule,” Rabbi Avi Weiss said, leading in the singing of “Because of My Brothers and Friends” (Psalm 122) and “God Bless America.”

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Continued from Page 1 get students thinking about small ways they could make a difference in the world. She pointed out the physical law that even the tiniest gesture, like moving a pinkie finger, causes “the molecules in the entire rest of the world to accommodate themselves around that movement.” “It’s also a spiritual law,” she continued. “Even the smallest act that you do in your life has an effect on the rest of the world.” “What is the one small profound act that you could do to bring greater harmony and peace to your world—with your family, with your siblings, with your

parents, with your schoolmates, with your community?” she asked. “If there’s one thing we can all do for each other, it’s just to care for one another,” one student said. An engineering student committed to greeting other students—instead of avoiding them—while walking back to campus from Leo Hall during less popular hours. Another suggested a chain of kindness— leaving kind messages on people’s cars “to make someone smile.” When a student said she’d report on the talk so that others who weren’t present could learn about it, Broyde Sharone said she was glad to have the press report on

good events as well as bad ones. She was reminded of Neve Shalom, a community outside Jerusalem where Jews and Muslims have been raising their families together for the past 30 years. “On the 25th year of living together successfully, the American representative of Neve Shalom wrote letters to CNN, NBC, ABC, all the major news networks and said, ‘come and help us celebrate 25 years of peaceful coexistence.’ No one came,” she said. NBC did write a response. “If you see any moments of violence or unrest or uneasiness, let us know,” they wrote in a letter, she said. “But they weren’t willing to publish that for 25 difficult, challenging years, these families had raised their kids together, teaching them Hebrew and Arabic, watching Al Jazeera and then Israeli television

alternately, talking about what was happening in their community and making a successful life together.” An outcome of the talk will be the formation of an interfaith club where students of various backgrounds will explore each other’s religions and possibly engage together in social service projects. “Since this is right before the Day of Atonement, I would like to apologize for my generation for bringing the world to this point and more peaceful for you,”Broyde Sharone said. “We had good intentions, but we blew it. You’re going to do a better job….You have skills that we never had. You have opportunities to reach out across the globe that we never had. You are going to make the difference.” She ended with a second mantra: Be interfaithful and multiply.

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Around the schools... TACHS exam for Catholic high schools

Registration is ongoing for the Test for Admission into Catholic High Schools, a requirement for admission to most high schools affiliated with the Archdiocese of New York. The test is designed to measure school aptitude and scholastic achievement in reading, mathematics and language. Registration is open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. by phone at 866-618-2247 or online at tachsinfo.com. Students are encouraged to register soon in order to be assigned to the test site of their choice. Paper registration forms are available at all Catholic schools and at some public schools and libraries. The registration deadline is October 21 for phone and online registration and October 9 for paper registration. The $52 registration fee covers materials, a handbook and reporting of scores to three selected high schools. The exam itself is scheduled for Friday, November 8. Informational high school fairs will be held at four nearby locations. In The Bronx: Cardinal Hayes High School, 650 Grand Concourse, on Thursday, September 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. and Cardinal Spellman High School, One Cardinal Spellman Place, on Tuesday, September 24, from 6 to 8 p.m. In Manhattan: Xavier High School, 30 West 16th Street, on Sunday, September 29, from noon to 3 p.m. In Westchester: St. Joseph Seminary, 201 Seminary Avenue, on Thursday, October 3, from 4 to 7 p.m.

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The school has partnered with the Riverdale Y for a wide array of afterschool enrichment classes. Descriptions, schedules, fees and a registration form are available at ps24school.org.

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Get Acquainted Meetings are scheduled for next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, September 23 through 25. These meetings allow parents to see their children’s classrooms and meet their teachers, who will discuss curriculum, describe the flow of the day and answer questions. Fall Fun Day, the school year’s first major parents association event, will take place on Sunday, September 29, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Participants can look forward to bouncy inflatables, games, prizes, food and a lots more.

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Back to School Night is this Thursday, September 19, at 6:30 p.m. Parents of stu-

dents in grades 6 through 12 are invited to experience an abbreviated version of their own child’s school day and to meet the teachers. The parents association will be there to sell School Spirit items. The PA will hold its first event, the PA Car Wash, on Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Independence Avenue side of the school. The suggested donation is $10. The first 100 customers will receive a complimentary RKA bumper magnet.

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Eighth-graders invite the community to their annual Car Wash Fundraiser on Saturday, September 28, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the schoolyard. The entrance is on West 235th Street between Arlington and Netherland avenues. All proceeds are earmarked for graduation expenses.

Manhattan College

The community is invited to hear a discussion by the acclaimed novelist and short story writer Mary Gaitskill at the college’s first Major Authors Reading Series (M.A.R.S.) of the year next Monday, September 23. Gaitskill’s “Veronica” was nominated for several literary awards. Other works are “Two Girls,” “Fat and Thin” and the story collections “Bad Behavior,” “Because They Wanted To” and “Don’t Cry.” Following Gaitskill, memoirist, novelist, poet and editor Jill Bialosky, best known for her best-selling memoir “History of a Suicide: My Sister’s Unfinished Life,” will speak on October 8 at 4:30 p.m. The series closes on November 14 with readings by the distinguished poet and critic Alicia Ostriker. The M.A.R.S. series, now in its eighth consecutive semester, is designed to engage and expose students to contemporary literature. All M.A.R.S. events are held in Hayden Hall, room 100. For more information, contact Adam Koehler (718-862-7546; adam. koehler@manhattan.edu) or Dominika Wrozynski (718-862-7921; dominika. wrozynski@manhattan.edu).

The college was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a Phillip Noyce Teachers Scholarship program for students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM). The aim of the scholarship is to help these students become teachers in New York’s high-need schools. The program continues for a fiveyear period starting January, 2014. This is the Mount’s second NSF grant for STEM

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Getting to City Island City Island is located at the edge of Long Island Sound off the coast of the mainland Bronx. Visitors and residents must cross the City Island Channel to get there. During most of the colonial period, the journey was difficult, but it eased over the course of several decades. The island, initially called Minneford by the English, was part of the Pell family’s manor of Pelham in colonial times. The Pells had no qualms about dividing up their legacy and selling property within their manor to others. Thus, several family farms were established there. The big question was how were these farmers to get to the island and to bring their grain, produce and livestock to market on the mainland? The only answer was to use boats. Each resident had his own and plied it back and forth from the island to his destination. When a consortium of 30 investors assembled by Benjamin Palmer of Throgg’s Neck purchased the island, they envisioned creating a commercial city that would rival New York. They renamed it City Island. In 1763, they established a ferry service from the island to Rodman’s Neck (now in Pelham Bay Park) on the mainland. Prospective ferry owners bid for the contract and were

permitted to charge fees for the crossing. Three years later, another ferry service was established linking the southern point of the island to Long Island, but this did not last long. The American Revolution dashed the plan for a great city on the island. Benjamin Palmer, however, never gave up his dream. Older and poorer, in the late 1790s, he became the first to urge the erection of a bridge to link the island to the mainland. When construction was approved by the State Legislature in 1804, it had to be financed by private subscription. The attempt failed because the funds could not be raised. It was not until 1873 that a private company opened a 1000-foot long wooden toll bridge on the site Palmer had originally proposed. Its draw once had been part of the long destroyed 1797 Harlem Bridge on the site of today’s Third Avenue Bridge. Other materials were salvaged from the decommissioned naval frigate USS North Carolina. When New York City annexed City Island in 1895, this bridge became toll free. Almost immediately, a new steel bridge was planned to take its place. Opened in 1901, it is still getting visitors and residents to City Island.

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Bill on recycling plastic bags introduced

A bill, sponsored by Council Member Oliver Koppell, establishing a deposit and refund program for plastic carryout bags was introduced in the City Council at its meeting on Thursday, September 12, 2013. The bill is co-sponsored by Council Member Leticia James, Chair of the Sanitation Committee. ‘’Plastic bags that go into the waste stream have a toxic effect on the environment. My bill would encourage consumers to return these bags for recycling rather than throw them out, which would have many beneficial effects,’ Koppell said. Customers who receive a plastic carryout bag to bring goods from a store will be required to leave a 5-cent deposit that will be refunded when the bag is returned to the store for recycling. The stores covered by the bill are those who sell personal, consumer or household items and provide or sell a plastic bag to carry items purchased at the store. These include drug stores, hardware stores, pharmacies, grocery stores, supermarkets, convenience food stores and food marts. The bill is modeled on the New York State Returnable Container Act or ‘Bottle Bill’ that Oliver Koppell sponsored in 1982 when he was a member of the NYS Assembly. The original bill required a deposit of 5 cents on beer and soda, and has since been amended to include bottled water. Since its passage, the ‘Bottle Bill’ has had a significant impact in creating a cleaner and healthier New York. The measure has: • Reduced roadside container litter by 70 percent;

• Recycled 90 billion containers, equal to 6 million tons of materials: • Saved more than 52 million barrels of oil; • Eliminated 200,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases each year. ‘The ‘Bottle Bill’ was successful, in large part, because the deposit was refundable and did not cost the consumer anything. I expect that the bill I have introduced for plastic bags would be equally successful with consumers and would have a similarly positive effect on the environment,’ Koppell said.

Bronx “Life Chain” set for Sunday, October 6th

The 8th Annual Bronx “Life Chain” is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 6th, between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., on Broadway. The event is co-sponsored by the St. Margaret’s “Respect Life Committee” and the Bronx Right-to-Life Committee. In making the announcement, Barbara Meara (who is president of both groups), said, “Our demonstration is always a peaceful, prayerful event. We line up from West 254th St. to West 262nd St. with signs and placards calling for an end to abortion. The public is invited to join in. Event Captains will be available at even-numbered streets to provide signs and posters for participants.” The Life Chain phenomenon started up 26 years ago in California with one event. Over the years, it has flourished to the point where there are now several hundred Life Chains in cities big and small in the United States and Canada. The event is held on the first Sunday

in October each year, which has been designated “Respect Life Sunday” by the Roman Catholic Church, and various other religious groups. “Let me point out,” Mrs. Meara stated, “that the demonstration is open to anyone who opposes abortion. It is not limited to religious people.” Anyone seeking further information may contact Mrs. Meara at 718-543-5091.

Riverdale Sunday Market to offer interactive series

The Riverdale Sunday market will have the Urban Park Rangers teaching your children different topics from 11:00am12:00pm. On Sunday, September 22, the topic will be ‘Urban Raptors: Masters of the Sky’. These interactive series are for children 10 years and under. Registration is required. Please contact Cynthia Galik at CGalik@RiverdaleY.org. Space is limited and the event is free. The Riverdale Y Sunday Market is located at MS/HS 141, 236-237 St and Independence Avenue.

Benefit concert to fight hunger

On Sunday, Oct. 6, at 2:30 p.m., a Benefit Concert for the Kingsbridge-Riverdale-Marble Hill Food and Hunger Project, Inc. will take place at the Riverdale-Yonkers Society for Ethical Culture, 4450 Fieldston Road. The concert will feature the Haitian Jazz Konbit Music of Buyu Ambroise Jazz Quartet, and local vocalist Laura Gourdine, accompanied by pianist George Dunbar. KRMH Food and Hunger Project, Inc.

maintains a food pantry at the Church of the Mediator and works with the Riverdale Y to provide kosher groceries for homebound seniors. Tickets are $15 or sponsors $25 and up (names will be listed in program). Send checks to KRMH Food and Hunger Project, P.O. Box 25, Bronx, NY 10471.

Schervier Center sponsors trip to Atlantic City

On Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013 Schervier Home will sponsor a Day trip to SHOWBOAT CASINO at Atlantic City. Cost is $30.00 per seat, with casino cash back of $25.00. The bus picks up from Schervier Apartments at 2995 Independence Avenue, Riverdale @ 8:55amand Knolls Crescent @ 9:00am. Returns at 8:30pm with drop offs at 230th st. & Kingsbridge Ave.; 232nd st. & Henry Hudson Parkway; Knolls Crescent and Schervier Apartments. For reservations please call NELLIE KENNY @646-269-4906.

South Riverdale Merchants Fall 2013 Block Festival

Please join the South Riverdale Avenue Merchants Association and the KRVC Development Corp. for their upcoming Fall 2013 Block Festival. It will take place on Sunday, September 29, 2013 from 12 noon to 4 pm on South Riverdale Avenue, between 236th and 238th Streets in Riverdale. The day will feature live music, pony rides, clowns, the Bronx Culture Trolley, face painting, delicious food, business exhibits and much more!! The South Riverdale Avenue Merchants Association and the KRVC would like to thank all of their sponsors for their support and still need more. Please contact them if you are interested in sponsoring this great event! For more details about this festival, go to their website: www.krvcdc.org

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Cara Lynch’s ‘House Work’ on view at Poe Park Center

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Center will offer guidance on how families can prepare for this important transition by taking into account the medical, psychosocial and educational needs of patients. The event also will include information on the latest pain management therapies, clinical research trials and self-care strategies; a patient panel featuring adults, teens and adolescents with sickle cell; refreshments and arts and crafts for children. To pre-register and for more information, call 718-741-2342. Sickle cell disease is an inherited blood disorder that affects about 1,000 Bronx residents and up to 100,000 people nationwide. It is an inherited, lifelong condition for which no cure is widely available. Sickle cell primarily affects African Americans but also has a significant impact on the Latino community. Acute pain is the hallmark of the disease, and severe cases of sickle cell can lead to life-threatening complications including stroke and kidney failure.

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BABY LAPSIT 10:30 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Stories, songs, puppets, and flannelboard stories for birth-18 months for parents/caregivers. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

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OPEN COMPUTER LAB 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Attention new computer users: Come to the Riverdale Library and get assistance on using the computers. Do you need to learn how to open a free e-mail account or practice going online and exploring the Internet? How about learning how to save a document or copy and paste text? Come to this open lab and ask questions and learn from doing. First come, first served. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

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GAME ON 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Come have some fun playing Xbox and Xbox Kinect games at the Kingsbridge Library! For ages 12-18. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Friday, September 20 Spuyten Duyvil

MANGA DRAWING 3:30 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Do you have the next manga series lurking in your head? Join Ivan Velez and learn how to draw your characters, plot your stories, and more. All materials will be provided. For ages 12 to 18. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

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TEEN ADVISORY GROUP 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street What’s happening in your world? What’s the hottest book, movie, or cd right now? What programs does the library need? Let us know, and you can earn community service credit for your school. For ages 13 to 18 years. For info, call 718-548-5656.

Saturday, September 21 Kingsbridge

INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION 10:30 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Join us for an intermediate meditation class. This session is open to those who’ve been regularly attending the weekday beginner’s class for a couple of months. Learn to go into a deeper meditation and learn new techniques that will help your spiritual ascent. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

Monday, September 23 Spuyten Duyvil

BOOK TALK 11 a.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street Each participant briefly describes & shares thoughts about a book recently read. Discussion & recommendations are the happy result of this sharing. For more info, call 718-796-1202.

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KNITTING CIRCLE 2 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Gather with other knitters, and perhaps pick up a few tips and tricks as you work on your own creations. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

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ART EXHIBIT 5:30 p.m. Spuyten Duyvil Branch Library 650 West 235th Street ‘Reclaimed’ reveals the remarkable legacy of Jacques Goudstikker, a preeminent art dealer in Amsterdam whose vast collection of masterpieces was almost lost forever to the Nazi practice of looting cultural properties. This exhibition presented by a docent from the Jewish Museum will show through slides rarely-seen Old Master paintings--including Dutch Old Master works & Italian & Northern Renaissance paintings-recently restituted to Goudstikker’s family. For more information, call 718-796-1202.

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MEDITATION 6 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street If you’re having trouble juggling the challenges in your life, Sahaja Meditation can help you manage stress, master your emotions and find solutions to your problems. For more information, call 718-548-5656.

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LECTURE 7:30 p.m. St. Margaret of Cortona Rectory Meeting Room The Adult Education Committee of Saint Margaret of Cortona Parish will sponsor a lecture paying tribute to this year’s 50th Anniversary of Vatican II. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. For further information please contact Bob Stauf, Chair of the Adult Education Committee at 914 476-2284.

Tuesday, September 24 Van Cortlandt

COMPUTER CLASS 9 a.m. Van Cortlandt Branch Library 3874 Sedgwick Avenue Do you know how to get on the internet but can’t get to a website? If so this is the class for you. Designed for users with some prexisiting computer experience, our intermidiate class teaches you how to navigate to a website, how to use a search engine. How to create an email account and basic microsoft word instruction. For more information, call 718-543-5150.

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GOOGLE SERIES 10 a.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Learn how to create, edit and share online documents using Google’s ever-evolving word processing, spreadsheet, presentation and calendar programs. Space is limited, please register by phone or in person. For more info, call 718-548-5656.

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e-READER HELP 11 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Learn how to download free e-books from the New York Public Library. Get help on using your iPad, Kindle or other tablet or e-reader. First come, first served. Tuesdays @ 11:00 a.m. (some exceptions, please check the online calendar or branch calendar) Wednesdays between 2 and 4 p.m. by appointment only. Please call Lynda at 718-549-1212 to make an appointment.

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TODDLER STORY TIME 11:30 a.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue Toddlers from 18 months to 3 years old and their parents/ caregivers can enjoy interactive stories, action songs, and fingerplays, and spend time with other toddlers in the neighborhood. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

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SCRABBLE 2 p.m. Riverdale Branch Library 5540 Mosholu Avenue If words work you up and crossword puzzles keep you going, come to Riverdale and share your passion with friends every Tuesday afternoon for a lively game of Scrabble. Pre-registration required. For more information, call 718-549-1212.

Wednesday, September 25 Kingsbridge

GAME ON 1:30 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Got the gaming moves? Show off your skills with the controller and challenge your friends and neighbors to a game of Wii Bowling in the library. For more info, call 718-548-5656.

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TEEN MOVIES 4 p.m. Kingsbridge Branch Library 291 West 231st Street Come join in for this monthly program showing great feature films selected by the Teen Advisory Group! This month the featured movie is Oz the Great & Powerful, starring James Franco and Mila Kunis. For ages 13 to 18 years. For info, call 718-548-5656.

Thursday, September 26 Van Cortlandt

COMPUTER BASICS 9 a.m. Van Cortlandt Branch Library 3874 Sedgwick Avenue Learn how to turn a pc on and off, how to use a keyboard/ mouse, what the internet is and many other early tools to become comfortable using a computer. For info, call 718-543-5150.

Spuyten Duyvil

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The Adult Education Committee of Saint Margaret of Cortona Parish in Riverdale, Bronx, New York will sponsor a lecture paying tribute to this year’s 50th Anniversary of Vatican II. The event will take place on Monday, September 23 at 7:30 PM in the parish rectory meeting room located at 6000 Riverdale Avenue. Featured panel speakers will include: Brother John Blaso a Maryknoll brother who will discuss the event from the views of a former missioner in Latin American countries, Rabbi Shumel Hain who serves as rabbi at Young Israel Ohab Zedek a local Riverdale synagogue in Riverdale who will address his comments as “Vatican II and

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Nostra Aetate: Reflections after 50 years” and Sister Eileen Fagan SC, who presently serves as the Chairperson of the Religious Studies Department at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale. Sister will speak on the role of religious women fifty years after Vatican II. Admission is free and light refreshments will be served. For further information please contact Bob Stauf, Chair of the Adult Education Committee at 914 476-2284.

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The Riverdale Y Senior center, located at 5625 Arlington Avenue, is going on a guided tour to the estate of John D. Rockefeller in Sleepy Hollow, New York on Wednesday, October 23, 2013. The cost for the tour and bus trip is $45, if the reservation is made before Oct 2; after Oct. 2 the fee will be $50. All seniors (over 60+) in the community are invited to attend. The bus will depart at the Y at 12:45pm. For more information or to reserve a seat, please contact Vicki at (718) 548-8200, ext. 224.

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Gotham’s Democratic Dilemma

When it comes to electing the chief executive of the City of New York, voters here are prone to abandon their usual voting preferences and turn to others to run the city, even with an overwhelmingly Democratic base of enrollees. It has been 24 years since voters have selected a Democrat as mayor. Arguably this dearth of Democrats has led to something of a municipal renaissance. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, it appeared as if New York was doomed to succumb to a wave of uncontrolled crime and the faltering economy to which such a plague inevitably leads. The last Democrat to win election was David Dinkins, a courtly, affable gentleman whose administration, to most New Yorkers, was stunningly unsuccessful. Elected in 1989 to restore racial peace to a tense city, Mr. Dinkins accomplished the opposite: the last and perhaps most tragic race riot the city has every experienced, which occurred in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights, and an ill-advised boycott of a Korean grocery store led by one of the city’s most noxious racial flamethrowers, the late Sonny Carson. Crime was at such uncontrolled levels, that parents in some neighborhoods were advised to have their young children sleep in the bathtub, lest they be caught in the crossfire of feuding drug dealers. The sign of the times was the hand scrawled warning “No Radio” that thousands of New Yorkers placed in car windows to advise would be thieves that they were simply too late, someone had beaten them to it. One newspaper pleaded with the mayor to address the crime wave: “Do Something, Dave!” This was the reason that voters turned to Republican candidate Rudolph Giuliani, who promised new tough tactics. The “broken windows” approach signaled zero tolerance for even the most petty of crimes, which were to be tracked with comprehensive statistical analysis. Even the squeegee-men, operating the most petty of shakedown scams were banished from city streets and highways. Amazingly, it worked. The murder rate plummeted to rates simply unimaginable at the height of the city’s travails. After eight years of Mr. Giuliani, in the height of the concerns following the terrorist attack on 9/11/2001, voters turned to businessman Michael Bloomberg, a lapsed Democrat who ran first as a Republican, than as an independent. He vowed to continue Mr. Giuliani’s policies, which he did with some success. But lacking a true crime wave to fight, the mayor turned his attention to other aspects of municipal life, such as promoting bicycle lanes on city streets, and mandating behavioral controls on our notably independent citizens, such as imposing controls on the size of sugary soft drinks. The mayor’s gambit to scuttle the term limits twice approved by voter referenda, is now looked upon as an attack on democratic values. Seizing the opportunity to restore their party’s primacy, a number of prominent Democratic officials presented themselves to voters in the primary held last week. While all vowed to roll back some of the anti-crime initiatives, particularly the stop, search and frisk program which was seen to be an attack on city minorities. The most strident opposition to the city’s public safety initiatives came from candidate Bill DeBlasio, whom has served the past four years as the city’s Public Advocate. Mr. DeBlasio was able to exploit his photogenic bi-racial family and position himself as a Dinkins Redux, promising a return to “progressive” values, which is shorthand for programs that seek to solve urban problems by raising taxes. Thus a reasonable plan to expand the city’s universal pre-kindergarten program becomes an excuse for a tax increase, rather than a reason for more prudent allocation of resources (the city now fails to spend its full state allocation for Pre-K under the current program). It isn’t too surprising that Mr. DeBlasio looks fondly on the Dinkins years. He served under the former mayor as did his then soon-to-be wife, Chirline McCray. For a short time, it appeared that Mr. DeBlasio would have to face a tough run-off in order to become the official Democratic nominee. Runoffs are designed to bring candidates to a centrist position more palatable to the majority. But party leaders put intense pressures on the number-two finisher, the more moderate former Comptroller Bill Thompson to concede. Mr. Thompson is a serious and competent man with a long track record of achievement in government. Thompson caved to the pressure, which notably included efforts by Governor Andrew Cuomo, who up until then had been aloof from the campaign. Continued on Page 15

BCA calls for SPARC applications

Fresh off another successful season of Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide (SPARC), the program is back for 20132014 and is now accepting artist applications. SPARC places artists-in-residence at senior centers across New York City. If you’re an artist of ANY genre who would like to inspire creativity at a local senior center, this program is just for you. Artists receive a stipend and access to workspace in senior centers in exchange for the creation and delivery of arts programming for seniors. Selected artists will engage seniors in an art project or series of cultural programs during the residency, which must also include a public program component that will be open to the surrounding community. To get a better idea of what SPARC is about, click here for photo and video highlights of the 2012-2013 program in the Bronx. Each of the borough’s nine projects brought joy to seniors and unleashed their artistic talents. Every year, many Bronx centers also present an opportunity for Spanish-speaking artists to conduct projects of Latin culture. Bronx Council on the Arts is

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seeking applications from NYC residents (of any borough) who want to work with a Bronx senior center. Artists are selected through a competitive application process. See www.bronxarts.org/sparc. asp for the Guidelines, Application, and details on the September 12th Q&A session. Apply by September 30, 2013 and help us put a “SPARC” in the lives of Bronx seniors!

Neighborhood Resource Center In addition, the Delegation allocated funds to MFY Legal and Legal Services -Bronx, who serve immigrants living in all sections of the Bronx. ‘I am pleased that a portion of my discretionary Council funds are being used to help recent immigrants learn English and obtain the services they need to become successfully integrated into society,’ Koppell said.

Funds allocated for immigrant services

Riv. Y to exhibit photographs by Dianne Sposito

The Bronx Council Delegation has allocated funds to organizations in Council Member Oliver Koppell’s district that provide services to recent immigrants. The services offered include instruction in English and help with issues related to citizenship, housing, work-related situations, and other matters that require legal assistance: The following organizations received this support: • Kingsbridge Heights Community Center; • Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center • Neighborhood Initiatives Development Corporation; • Emerald Isle Immigration Center; • West Bronx Housing and

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Gallery 18 at the Riverdale YM-YWHA will exhibit ‘Thou, Nature, art my goddess,’ photographs by Dianne Sposito on October 1st - 31st, 2013 According to the artist, ‘The world’s greatest dramatist, William Shakespeare has something to say about every single moment of our lives. He uses the natural world to illuminate our humanity in its myriad facets. In this series of photographs, I marry his words with my images. I hope to slow things down, bring the viewer deeply in, face to face with the glorious cast of characters in Nature’s compelling play, to listen to what they have to say.’ Dianne Sposito is a creative artist who expresses her artistry principally through playwriting, but also works in photography. A 2011 Bronx Council for the Arts BRIO Award winner in playwriting, her plays have been produced in New York City and throughout the USA. She considers William Shakespeare her lifelong friend and companion, and has studied, enjoyed and loved his plays and poetry for decades.

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CRAFTS FESTIVAL 10 a.m. Lyndhurst Estate 635 South Broadway Spend inspiring and fun-filled days at the Northeast’s most exciting arts festival! Discover hundreds of artists and craftspeople as they exhibit, sell and talk about their work while enjoying specialty foods, wine, live music, demonstrations, children’s activities & more! Sept. 20, 21, 22. Visit www.artrider. com for more information.

FARMERS MARKET 10 a.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Over 20 vendors will be selling great food, meats, produce, pasta, dressings, pickles, jams, baked goods and more, every Sunday through October. For more information, call 914-864-7282.

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HORTICULTURE FOR CHILDREN 10:30 a.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 Adventures in Horticulture for Children Ages 3 - 6. Learn the joys of gardening with your child/grandchild through nature walks and horticultural activities. Fee $6; pre-registration required at (914) 886-5108.

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RIVERLOVERS POTLUCK 6:30 p.m. Croton Point Park Croton Point Avenue 6:30 p.m. Pot Luck Supper -- all are welcome. 7:30 p.m. “The Pre-History of Croton Point Park” presented by naturalist John Phillips. For more information, call 914-862-5297 or www.riverlovers.org.

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BASKETMAKERS GUILD 10 a.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Ninth Annual Basket Guild’s Make-and-Take. Join members of Westchester Area Basketmakers Guilf for this annual event. For more information, call 914-864-7282 or visit www. muscootfarm.org.

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HAWK WATCH 10 a.m. Lenoir Preserve Dudley Street Co-sponsored by Hudson River Audubon Society. Watch the majesty of migrating raptors over the Hudson. For more information, call 914-968-5851.

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NATURE GAMES FOR KIDS 10 a.m. Trailside Nature Museum Ward Pound Ridge Reservation Kids can learn about nature while having fun with games. For more information, call 914-864-7322.

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INCENSE MAKING 10:30 a.m. Lasdon Park Route 35 Explore the art of aromatherapy as you make your own incense and dream pillow. Fee $15 per person; pre-registration required at 914-886-5108.

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ART EXHIBIT 12 p.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Paintings by artist Carolyn Vann Ness and members of the Westchester Watercolor Group on display through September. For more information, call 914-864-7282 or visit www.muscootfarm.org.

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NATURE HIKE 1 p.m. Cranberry Lake Preserve 1609 Old Orchard Street Quarry Makers. A hike to re-visualize stone of the landscape as it once was before it was transformed into structures in New York City. For more information, call 914-428-1005.

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NATURE HIKE 2 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Fall Foliage Find. Join the staff for a hike to observe and study the leaves of a variety of trees. For info, call 914-835-4466.

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ART EXHIBIT 12 p.m. Muscoot Farm Route 100 Paintings by artist Carolyn VannNess and members of the Westchester Watercolor Group on display weekend through September. For more information, call 914-864-7282 or visit www.muscootfarm.org

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MEET THE ANIMALS 1 p.m. Greenburgh Nature Center 99 Dromore Road Our naturalist presents an informative program that allows you to get up close and hands-on with some of the Nature Center’s live animals! Members $5, Non-Members $8. For more information, call 914-723-3470.

Do you know a great doorman, porter or handyman where you live? Is there an office cleaner, security officer or maintenance worker who helps make life a little easier at work? How about a school, theater, event or stadium cleaner who deserves recognition? Join Our Town, The West Side Spirit, Our Town Downtown and 32BJ SEIU, the property workers union, in honoring the people who keep our homes, offices, schools and public buildings clean and running smoothly. We’ll be selecting the people you nominate and vote for at a special awards ceremony in October, and be writing about them in New York’s leading community newspaper. So tell us, who’s gone above and beyond to make residents’, tenants’ and New Yorkers’ lives better?

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FALL SHELTER BUILDING 2 p.m. Marshlands Conservancy Route 1 Learn how to construct a life-size shelter using materials only found in nature. For more information, call 914-835-4466.

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BIRD WALK 8:30 a.m. Croton Point Park Croton Point Avenue Fourth Monday Bird Walk. Join members of Saw Mill River Audubon for a hike to sight local birds and migrants. For more information, call 914-862-5290 or visit www.sawmillriveraudubon.org.

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Democratic dilemma

Continued from Page 14 The Democrats now have a candidate, one that happily occupies the far left of the local political spectrum. This may well be seen as a mistake come November. This spells opportunity for the Republican candidate Joseph Lhota, a Deputy Mayor under Mr. Giuliani. Mr. Lhota won kudos for his stewardship of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and is well-regarded as a manager. If he prevails in the November general election, it will be because Mr. DeBlasio, in promising change, is seen as unable to protect the real gains of the past twenty years. It will be hard for a man as firm in his “progressive” beliefs as Mr. DeBlasio to move to the center. That is the Democratic dilemma. How can you balance the desire to do more for the people, in a softer way, with the realities of municipal governance in the twenty-first century? One former city official that we respect, and has every reason to be skeptical of Mr. Lhota, warns that Mr. DeBlasio could well take New York on the road to becoming the next Detroit. So stay tuned. Don’t be too surprised if this moment of Democratic unity becomes yet another moment of regret as voters look to future with the clear knowledge of what they have painfully learned in the past.

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The Riverdale Y Sunday Market Every Sunday from 9am to 2pm Now until Nov. 24, 2013 at MS/HS 141 in the arcade Independence Ave. & West 237 Street

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THIS WEEK AT THE MARKET- SEPT 22 Urban Park Rangers - 11-12pm, ages 10 yrs and under.

Urban Raptors: Masters of the Sky Please register with CGalik@RiverdaleY.org. The market is supported by a grant from the UJA-Federation of NY Advertising sponsored by The Riverdale Review