Manhattan College

[Marist Mike]

I'm thinking of transferring from where I'm at now. There are many reasons I want to get away from Rider and I won't get into them right now. One of the colleges that came to my mind was Manhattan. They guy I talked to on the phone told me it's in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Anyone know anything about that area that could be useful for me if I decided to transfer.

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[MissGradenko]

It's in a blue state.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Riverdale is a really nice area of the Bronx. You'll be safe. (I went to Fordham which is south of there. I never had a problem.) I'm not sure if you're close to a subway but you'll be close to NYC which is always a plus.

It's a good school, but Fordham will whoop you're butt in basketball. :p

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[hurlmon]

I went to Manhattan and know the area well. It's in the north west section of the Bronx at the top of the 1 and 9 train. right by Van Cortland park (242nd st). Pretty decent neighborhood. (I never left)

I graduated over 10 years ago but I really enjoyed it when I went. The classes were small, teachers seemed to care and there were 5 or 6 bars within a 3 block walk. Just about all of the bars have closed but they've done improvements on the college over the years since been there. A new large dorm and they expanded the library are two things that I can think of.

Below is a link for a newspaper in the neighborhood if you want to check it out once in a while to see the goins on.


Riverdale Review (http://www.riverdalereview.com/)

another neighborhood paper is called The Riverdale Press but they don't have a web site.

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This message was edited by hurlmon on 2-12-05 @ 9:10 AM

[BoondockSaint]

Since they closed The Terminal I have had no reason to go to that neighborhood.

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[Marist Mike]

It's in a blue state.


So is the college I'm in now.....lol

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[hurlmon]

The Terminal


Aahhhh the times I can't remember there...



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[Donnielimes]

Isn't manhattan college run by priests? Jesuit education rules. I didn't benefit from it but never argue with a jesuit trained mind just change the subject. it's in the bronx but closer to washington hieghts actually for all reasonable purposes of being in college your more in the north of manhattan. The nearest subway is the #1 train and thats the westside local. The business school is topnotch I know a few people who went there they doing quite well. your also near the norwood section of the bronx. Heavily IRISH from IRELAND if that sort of thing makes any difference to you. Riverdale is really jewish if that makes any difference to you. try it out you should enjoy it.

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[spunkee]

i went to manhattan too. dont expect any campus life, but if you are there for class and to go home its good. the teachers are pretty decent. i was there for the last days of the terminal... i can still smell the stale beer and puke and see the underage drinkers in my mind.... and what about the pinewood?

[saveopieanthony.net]

Pinewood, Characters, Terminal, Dorneys

I went to college in Riverdale and know the area well.

At one time they had $5 cover, all you can drink keg beers (in keg cups no less) until midnight and we would pile on a pyramid of beer, get trashed and stumble around under the elevated subway train.

Underage drinking, date rape and puking in the street.

Oh, the good old days.

Oh, "Broadway Joe's" pizza on 242 and Broadway is the best pizza in the Bronx. Get it in there because the slices are like 1 1/2 times as big.

Van Courtland Park is huge and get for flag football games....it's HUGE....like bigger than central park

The best "steakhouse" in the area is a $6 cab ride from MC (there is a school bus that will get you to the CMSV, the other college in the area @ 263rd)
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You can read the school newspaper here:
http://www.mcquadrangle.org/news/827816.html

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[BoondockSaint]

The Pinewood was such a toilet. I loved it.

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[ChickenHawk]

I've lived in Riverdale my whole life. Nice neighborhood. Relatively quiet, safe... The Manhattan College area is a nice college area, right by the 1-9 line that takes you right into the city. Lately though, like within the last 3 years, they've really been making a huge push to sell real estate in Riverdale. So lots of small wooded areas and old single-family homes are being plowed over to build cheap shitty 5-flight apartment buildings. It's kinda ruining the appeal of the neaighborhood... but that's really not something I think you'd care too much about.

Oh yeah, the people... Riverdale is a pretty heavily Jewish neighborhood, but like Donnielimes said, the region around Manhattan College and Northern Kingsbridge has a lot of Irish folks. There's a sweet-ass joint right on 238th St. next to one of the dorms called "An Beal Bacht"... I'm not even really sure how to pronounce it, but the Irishest of Irish go hang out and drink there and there's regular live entertainment.

Oh, and no, Van Cortlandt Park is not bigger than Central Park.

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This message was edited by ChickenHawk on 2-23-05 @ 5:39 PM

[hurlmon]

I've lived in Riverdale my whole life....

Oh, and no, Van Cortlandt Park is not bigger than Central Park.

I too live in Riverdale (16 yrs now) and yes Vanny is larger than central park. Central park has more usable area but is smaller over all.

Top Ten Largest Parks:

1. Pelham Bay Park, Bronx 2,765 acres
2. Greeenbelt, Staten Island 1,778 acres
3. Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens 1,255 acres
4. Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx 1,146 acres
5. Central Park, Manhattan 843 acres
6. Fresh Kills Park, Staten Island 813 acres
7. Marine Park, Brooklyn 798 acres
8. Bronx Park, Bronx 718 acres
9.. Alley Pond Park, Queens 655 acres
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk, South and Midland Beaches, Staten Island 638 acres

Info from here (http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_faqs/park_faqs.html#g4)

Manhattan used to have a great campus life many moons ago but all the bars have since been shut down. The only bar down on 242nd is Dorney & Malone's and one up along van cort park.

Oh yeah just wondering for those who said they went to college at Manhattan or in the area, when did you graduate?

Me, spring 92 Manhattan.



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[reeshy]

That's my old Alma Mater!!!!! God bless the Pinewood...I did a lot of "studying" there!!!!!!!!!

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[Teenweek]

Since they closed The Terminal I have had no reason to go to that neighborhood.



I got my ass kicked outside of there in 1991 when I was a freshman by the gang called the Illy Boyz. I was fighting someone out in the street. Got a bottle cracked over my head, woke up and remember my face being dragged across the street. 2 of my friends (one junior and one senior and my other friends kicked the crap out of them than. They had locked the pinewood and none of my friends could get out.


Broadway Joes has the greatest pizza known to man.

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[Doogie]

They guy I talked to on the phone told me it's in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Anyone know anything about that area that could be useful for me if I decided to transfer.


I was born there and lived there for the first few years of my life. And we would always be down that area like everyother weekend when my grandma was still alive. It is a good neighborhood, especially considering that it is the Bronx. My mother swears up and down that Van Cortland went downhill once they put the pool in, but it still isnt that bad.

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[jafter]

Since they closed The Terminal I have had no reason to go to that neighborhood


Holy shit they closed all of the bars near Manhattan. I think my brother worked at all of those bars Terminal, Pinewood, and Characters. That was from 81 to early 90s. God the stories he would tell me about the fights, $5 pitchers of LI ice teas, drinking games, and yes broadway joes has great pizza.

I think he said that Characters used to sell the most cider in the city and was second in guiness sales.

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[ThePointer]

I went to Manhattan for a year as an engineering major . stayed on campus too the life there was good at the time. Sorry hearing that all the old time bars are closed there. Pinewood used to have 5cent beers and hot dogd for the first half of Monday night football. when I was there, the only coed dorm was the apartment building down the block from campus. but then what do you want? Those were the good ole days.

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