Jacob Riis, who died 100 years ago this month ... 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 ...

The stretch of Jacob Riis beach, deemed “extremely hazardous,” has suffered erosion for years, exposing dangerous wooden ...

Mamet satirizes a growing sense that certain politicians have no idea of how real life works. It’s funny that Mamet can’t tell a credit card from a library card, but not so funny that the president of ...

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 ...

Jacob Riis Park might have retro charm and sweeping ... east of the 92-year-old bathhouse has stalled out, leaving the path half-done and new benches without seats. Sand now spills across parts ...

Two teenage boys at the beach with their parents went missing while swimming in the waters of Jacob Riis Park in Queens on Friday night, police said. Divers with the FDNY and NYPD spent the last ...

Contemporary accounts point to other factors in the governor’s decision. Daniel Czitrom, co-author of the 2008 book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, believes that Damon’s affidavit was of primary ...