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 ...

In the late 1880s, a New York City police reporter named Jacob Riis took pictures that way in lower Manhattan. '5 Cents A Spot' One of Riis' most famous photos was taken on Bayard Street.

He was heralded with pioneering a particularly stark and revealing brand of photojournalism, but Jacob Riis never even considered himself a photographer. Toiling in New York’s Lower East Side ...

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.