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16 unusual facts about Riverdale


Asher Lopatin

He is the President of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School, the leading modern and open Orthodox rabbinical school in America located in Riverdale, NY.

David Leonhardt

Born in New York, Leonhardt graduated from Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York in 1990, and then continued his studies at Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, graduating in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in applied mathematics.

Deni Elliott

She graduated from Parkdale High School, in Riverdale, MD in 1971, completed her B.A. in Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Maryland in 1974, finished the M.A. in Philosophy in 1982 and her D.Ed.

Is Anybody Home?

Scenes of the band playing were filmed in the basement of the Eastminster United Church on Danforth Ave. east of Broadview Ave. in the Riverdale neighborhood of Toronto.

Jay Feinberg

Ms. Faibisoff, whose marrow saved Feinberg’s life, now lives in Riverdale and teaches at SAR Academy.

Jim D. Cudaback

He was born on April 12, 1938, in Riverdale, Nebraska and graduated from Riverdale High School.

Jim D. Cudaback (born 1938) is a former Nebraska state senator from Riverdale, Nebraska in the Nebraska Legislature.

Jonathan Greenspun

Greenspun lives with wife Rosesara and their two sons in Riverdale.

Lynn Frazier

Frazier died in Riverdale, Maryland, on January 11, 1947, at the age of 72.

Marjorie Perloff

Faced with Nazi terror, her family emigrated in 1938 when she was six-and-a-half, going first to Zürich and then to the United States, settling in Riverdale, New York.

Pelham Bay, Bronx

Alongside Riverdale and Country Club, Pelham Bay is one of the top and safest neighborhoods in the Bronx.

Riverdale, Chicago

In Kensington, Saint Salomea Church, a vestige of European immigrants, now houses the Salem Baptist congregation.

Riverdale, Georgia

Riverdale is mentioned in Waka Flocka Flame's song, O Let's Do It and Grove St. Party.

Riverdale, Illinois

Betty Robinson, Olympic gold medalist in the 100 and 400 meter relays (1928 & 1936); born in Riverdale

Riverdale, New Jersey

Kris Foster (born 1974), former MLB pitcher who played for the Baltimore Orioles.

West Pullman, Chicago

It is bounded on the north by 115th Street, on the east by the former Illinois Central Railroad, on the south by the Calumet River and Riverdale, on the west by Calumet Park, Blue Island and Ashland Avenue.


Archie at Riverdale High

Archie at Riverdale High was a comic book title published by Archie Comics from August 1972 to February 1987, focusing on the Archie gang's day to day exploits at Riverdale High School.

Archie Marries Veronica/Archie Marries Betty

Dilton Doiley is going to M.I.T. for his doctorate in quantum mechanics, Reggie Mantle will fulfill his destiny as a used car salesman in Atlanta and Jughead Jones will stick around Riverdale grilling burgers at Pop Tate's Choklit Shoppe until he figures things out.

Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica

At New York Comic Con in 2013, Archie Comics announced that Betty and Veronica would leave Riverdale in Farewell, Betty and Veronica written by Michael Uslan with art by Dan Parent, and that two new female characters would replace them.

Article XV squadrons

The Air Training Agreement (sometimes known as the "Ottawa Agreement" or the "Riverdale Agreement", after the UK representative at the negotiations, Lord Riverdale) was officially signed on 17 December 1939.

Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale

CSAIR - The Conservative Synagogue Adath Israel of Riverdale is a Conservative, egalitarian congregation and a member of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.

Dave Liddell

Liddell was a 4th round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs in 1984 - the 83rd overall pick in the draft - after attending Rubidoux High School in Riverdale, California.

Derfner Judaica Museum

Also included under the umbrella of the Home is The Art Collection at The Hebrew Home at Riverdale which comprises over 4,500 paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture ranging from contemporary works by such artists as Alex Katz, Ben Shahn, and Andy Warhol to Native American ceremonial art and African sculpture.

Ferdinand Gottlieb

He is best known for his interior design of the original Rizzoli International Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City (1964), and for his landmark Saul Victor House in the Riverdale section of New York City (1967), noted in the American Institute of Architects' AIA Guide to New York City as a "formal modernist design in now-grayed redwood siding".

Hobby Club

The Fifth Dinner was on October 31, 1912 in the home of Professor Bashford Dean and his presentation on "Ancient Armor" in Riverdale, New York.

Jose Bibiano

Bibiano grew up in Riverdale, Maryland and attended Parkdale High School, playing on their varsity soccer team for several seasons.

Joseph McNamara

A quarter-century later, he attempted to return to politics by contesting Riverdale in the 1948 provincial election as a Liberal but placed third behind the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Progressive Conservative candidates.

Little Archie

The Perilous Pike: A pike that lives in Logger’s Pond, a large pond near Riverdale.

Mississippi Athletic Conference

The Illinois teams are Moline, United Township (of East Moline), Rock Island, Rock Island Alleman, and Galesburg, all representing the Western Big 6 Conference; the other participating teams are Geneseo and Riverdale of Port Byron, Illinois.

Myrna Summers

Her parents were members of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and she performed in services at the Refreshing Spring Church in Riverdale, Maryland from a very early age.

Riverdale Academy

Salanter Akiba Riverdale Academy – a coeducational, private Orthodox Jewish day school in Riverdale, The Bronx, New York City

Rosalie Stier Calvert

Also known as Baltimore House, Calvert Mansion or Riversdale Mansion, it is located at 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park, Maryland.

Spuyten Duyvil

Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, the name of a subsection of the Riverdale section in New York City

William Peyton Hubbard

Losing an election in 1915, Hubbard retired to the Riverdale area of the city, building a home in which he would spend his remaining days until his death at the age of 93.