Riis’s 1890 treatise of social criticism How the Other Half Lives was written in the belief “that every man’s experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it ...

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Jacob A. Riis was a social reformer who advocated for change among New York City’s poorest. Museum of the City of New York. Now that Riis lives on in the name of a public housing project in a ...

A stretch of Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways remains too dangerous to use just ahead of beach season, and officials have no immediate plans to fix the area. Erosion has continued to eat away at ...

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.

NEW YORK -- A 19-year-old man has died after he was pulled from the water at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. The beach was packed with people relaxing when the chaos erupted just before 8 p.m. Friday.

A drowning surfer who died after being carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at Queens’ Jacob Riis Park was a rising documentary filmmaker whose first feature is about to have its US ...

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 ...

Riis’s 1890 treatise of social criticism How the Other Half Lives was written in the belief “that every man’s experience ought to be worth something to the community from which he drew it ...