CH – Please don’t play us for fools. Avi weiss doesn’t come to the toenails of any Rabbonim in Riverdale and he wasn’t the greatest lamdin in RJJ either.
As far as the numbers game goes, you certainly know that there are many variables that make statistics lie; such as:
Even if we take HIR at their word concerning the 500 dues paying families; the size of an HIR family is far smaller than that of the Riverdale shuls and institutions you list. There are a lot of dues paying singles attached to HIR who are counted as families. And the percentage of shul attendance and learning at these other Riverdale shuls is far greater than the dues payers at HIR.