Riverdale (population 46,013) is a well-to-do residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx in New York City. It is bordered on the west by the Hudson River, on the north by Yonkers, New York, and on the east by a large hill separating Riverdale from the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. Wave Hill, a combination garden and outdoor art gallery, is in Riverdale. Two weekly newspapers, the Riverdale Press and the Riverdale Review, focus on news of interest to residents of the neighborhood. Fieldston, an even more upscale neighborhood, lies entirely within Riverdale's borders. Southern Riverdale is also known as Spuyten Duyvil, which was once considered a separate neighborhood in its own right, and has its own train station. Van Cortlandt Park touches the neigborhood. Neighbourhood is also a term in topology. ... The Bronx is one of the five boroughs of United States. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... View of the Hudson in the 1880s showing Jersey City The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk in Mahican, is a river running mainly through New York State but partly forming the boundary between the states of New York and New Jersey. ... Yonkers, bordering the New York City borough of the Bronx and just 2 miles north of Manhattan at the closest point of each, is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of New York, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). ... Kingsbridge is a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. ... Wave Hill is a 28 acre (113,000 m²) botanical garden in New York Citys Riverdale neighborhood, situated in the Bronx. ... Fieldston is an especially wealthy sub-neighborhood within the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York, New York. ... In modern usage, Spuyten Duyvil is the name of a subsection of the Riverdale section of the Bronx in New York City, named after Spuyten Duyvil Creek, a Dutch name meaning perhaps Devils Whirlpool, on its southern border. ... The Spuyten Duyvil train station serves the residents of the Spuyten Duyvil neighborhood in New York Citys borough of The Bronx via Metro-North Railroads Hudson Division line. ...

Riverdale contains three private schools (Horace Mann, Riverdale Country, and Fieldston), the public John F. Kennedy High School in nearby Marble Hill, and two private universities (Manhattan College and the College of Mount Saint Vincent). The public elementary schools are P.S. 24 and P.S. 81. Many Riverdale residents also attend Bronx Science. Riverdale is also home to SAR Academy, a Jewish day school near the Riverdale train station, and SAR High School. Horace Mann School Magna est veritas et prævalet (Great is the truth and it prevails)   Founded in 1887, the Horace Mann School is a prestigious college preparatory school located in New York City. ... JFK redirects here. ... Marble Hill is a place in the State of Missouri in the United States of America. ... Manhattan College is a Catholic college in New York City. ... The Bronx High School of Science, commonly called Bronx Science, is a public high school in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... The Riverdale train station serves the residents of the Riverdale neighborhood in New York Citys borough of The Bronx via Metro-North Railroads Hudson Division line. ...

The New York City Subway 1 line and the Hudson line of the Metro-North commuter railroad run through the neighborhood. Commuting time from the Spuyten Duyvil station to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan is around 25 minutes. Manhattan can also be easily reached by MTA Bus's express routes. By car, Riverdale is commonly reached via the Henry Hudson Parkway which bisects much of the neighborhood. This major thoroughfare connects it to Manhattan over the Henry Hudson Bridge to the south. The New York City Subway is a large rapid transit system in New York City, New York, United States. ... The 1 Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local and 9 Broadway-Seventh Avenue Local are two services of the New York City Subway. ... Marble Hill station The Metro-North Railroad (officially the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company, and usually abbreviated as Metro-North) is a suburban commuter railroad service between New York City to its northern suburbs in New York State and Connecticut. ... The clock in the Main Concourse © 2004 Metropolitan Transportation Authority Grand Central Terminal (often still called Grand Central Station, although technically that is the name of the nearby post office and New York City Subway station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line) is a train station at 15 Vanderbilt Avenue... View of Midtown from Empire State Building. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... MTA Bus, overseen by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (New York) is a company created to take over private bus lines in New York State. ... An Express bus is a bus service that is intended to run faster than normal bus lines. ... The Henry Hudson Parkway is a New York City parkway that stretches from West 72nd Street in Manhattan to the Bronx-Westchester County boundary, where it meets the Saw Mill River Parkway. ... Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ... The Henry Hudson Bridge The Henry Hudson Bridge is a toll bridge in New York City. ...

Many residents of Riverdale are reluctant to be associated with the Bronx, and use "Riverdale, New York" as an address. The U.S. postal service, though it once did not consider this to be an acceptable city name and hence letters addressed as such were often returned to the sender, now has no problem sending letters to Riverdale residents. Riverdale's zip codes are 10463 and 10471; while 10471 is entirely in Riverdale, 10463 largely covers the less prestigious neighborhoods of Kingsbridge and Marble Hill, leading many to mistakenly call those areas "Riverdale." Kingsbridge is a neighborhood in the Bronx, New York. ...

Riverdale is home to large Irish American and Jewish communities. Despite the claims by many in the New York area that Riverdale is not "really" part of the Bronx, many areas throughout the borough are actually very similar, or bear an even greater resemblance to nearby suburban areas. Irish Americans are residents or citizens of the United States who claim Irish ancestry. ... The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ...