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Riverdale

American  
[riv-er-deyl] / ˈrɪv ərˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. a city in NE Illinois.


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When I was 2, my family moved from Queens to Riverdale, in the Bronx.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 25, 2025

Her first venture was a small plot at Jardin del Rio on Riverdale Avenue in 2022.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2024

His brother-in-law Ary Freilich said that Mr. Lieberman’s fall occurred at his home in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and that he died at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Upper Manhattan.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2024

Those officers arranged for him to be returned to Riverdale - where he lived with a host family - out of concerns for his safety.

From BBC Jan. 2, 2024

Paralleling my mom’s insistence that I attend Riverdale because John F. Kennedy had once gone to school there, she was won over to Valley Forge when she heard that General Norman Schwarzkopf was a graduate.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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