Jacob Riis addressed the problem of urban tenement buildings ... Ikeda isn’t slavish in organizing his book about Jane Jacobs and, so, produces a book of his own that efficiently re-states and ...

The diversity, equity, and inclusion movement (DEI) appears to be waning. The anti-ageism movement can possibly fill the ...

Like hundreds of others of anti-ageism activists, I’ve done what I could (in my case write books and blog ... era social reforms resulting from Jacob Riis’s 1890 expose on “how the other ...

Unlike other developments where NYCHA has held votes in recent years, residents at the Jacob Riis Houses will choose between only two options: the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) ...

When Mr. Lindsay took office, Mr. Friedberg had already designed an innovative park and playground for the Jacob Riis Houses, the public housing complex on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

In “Taking Manhattan,” Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center ...

I haven’t even left New York,” she wrote. When she made it to the ocean for the first time since 2019, at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, she wrote, it “felt cathartic and beautiful.” ...

In a show at the New York Historical, Arlene Gottfried carries on the tradition of Arbus and Winogrand in the ’70s and ’80s, but with unalloyed sympathy for her subjects. By Arthur Lubow ...

W hen our son Sam was six years old, he was assaulted in the boy’s bathroom at school. Sam was wearing khaki pants and a grey ...

Preorders for the standard version of the hardcover is the only option currently discounted on Amazon (30% off). The Kindle eBook version is cheaper than the hardcover at $18.99 and will be available ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In “The Fisherman’s Gift,” a man finds a lost child ...