Riverdale
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Riverdale is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of the Bronx bordered by the Riverdale Park to the west and Van Cortland Park to the east and 254th Street and Palisade Avenues. The very northern tip of the Bronx, once you leave Riverdale you enter Yonkers. The neighborhood was a 19th century estate district where many of the Manhattan’s residents bought their country estates. By the time the railroad was built up north, this became a commuter’s neighborhood.
Like the Upper East and West Side who converted their mansions into apartment buildings, Riverdale has a rich history that led to the creation of the Riverdale Historic District.
Famous mansions in the neighborhood include the Greyston, Alderbrook, Stonehurst and Oaklawn. Apartment buildings went up in the 1950s and 60s and recently several high-rise condominium buildings have gone up. In August 2008 Columbia University purchased an apartment building by Henry Hudson Parkway to use as faculty housing.
Van Cortlandt Park, located in northwest Riverdale, is the largest park in New York City stretching 1,146 acres. This expansive park draws in cross-country runners, families and is a rest stop for the tour de Bronx bike tour. Van Cortlandt Park was once a grain plantation on the land purchased by Jacobus Van Cortlandt from John Barrett. In 1888 the Van Cortlandt family sold the land to the City of New York to convert it to a public park, and the home was converted into a museum. The Van Cortlandt house was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Riverdale’s population is about46,000 (2000 Census) most residents being middle and upper class. Also considered the most affluent neighborhood in the Bronx with large Irish American, Jewish and Puerto Rican communities. The creator of Archie Comics, John L. Goldwater, attended high school in Riverdale and he may have drawn the name for Archie’s Riverdale from his own home town.
