The Museum of the City of New York presents Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, a one-of-a-kind retrospective of the city’s most famous social reformer and pioneer of photojournalism. Riis ...

Pictured above: Jacob Riis’s “ I Scrubs” — Little Katie from the West 52nd Street Industrial School,” 1891-1892. (Jacob Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Courtesy of Library of Congress) ...

In one of Jacob Riis' most famous photos, "Five Cents a Spot," 1888–89, lodgers crowd in a Bayard Street tenement. Jacob A. Riis Collection, Museum of the City of New York ...

The missing 16- and 17-year-old boys entered the water at Jacob Riis Park's Bay 2 around 6:30 p.m., according to the NYPD.

The legacy of Riis's work is rather sticky, and it's necessary to engage it correctly, so it's good to have detail and context. But the reproductions of his famous images are essentially obscured ...

Authorities are continuing the search on Saturday morning for two teenage boys who went missing while swimming in the waters off Jacob Riis Park in Queens on Friday evening.

The development team behind renovations planned for the historic Jacob Riis Park bathhouse, following the extensive damages it suffered during Superstorm Sandy, has landed $47.5 million in ...

Teddy Roosevelt, Jacob Riis, and the Little Dog Who Changed Homeless Policy in NYC. Janos Marton Feb 17, 2015. February 17 2015 3 min read Share. ... But before he was a famous social reformer, ...

Two friends, Victoria Cruz and Carlos Villacres, remember Osvaldo Gómez, known as Ms. Colombia, who was a fixture in Jacob Riis Park in Queens. She gave free legal advice to fellow Colombians.

I n 1878, Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune, stepped out of his office and into the squalor of New York’s Mulberry Street. A few years earlier, he had found his calling. ... The ...

Jacob Riis Park might have retro charm and sweeping ocean views, but for summer 2025, large swaths of this Queens beach will be off-limits—and not because of a new construction project or piping ...

Two friends, Victoria Cruz and Carlos Villacres, remember Osvaldo Gómez, known as Ms. Colombia, who dispensed legal advice at Jacob Riis Park -- one of New York's most-popular beaches.