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 ...

It was the muckraker Jacob Riis who famously wrote about how the Lower East Side’s other half lived. Riis was given his due when, in 1949, a public housing complex by Walker & Gillette was named ...

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 premiere.

Zulay Velazquez has lived at the Jacob Riis NYCHA development in the East Village for more than 40 years. Velazquez, along with the roughly 3,600 other residents, has a big decision — to remain ...

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) ...

His book Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America won the Merle Curti Award Best Book in US Social History ... depicted for example in Jacob Riis' "Bandits' Roost ...

NEW YORK - Beach erosion may be contributing to dangerous swimming conditions at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, and experts say common solutions come with consequences. Bonnie Siegel knows Jacob Riis ...

ROCKAWAY BEACH, Queens (PIX11) — Rescuers were searching for two teenage boys who went missing in the water at Jacob Riis Park Beach in Queens Friday, according to police. The FDNY received a call for ...

Rescuers were searching for two teenage boys who went missing in the water at Jacob Riis Park Beach in Queens Friday, according to police. 14 Best Root Beers, Ranked I’m a Retired Boomer ...

“Now, it’s hard to trust them. I don’t believe them anymore,” Gloria Torres, who lives with her 15-year-old son at the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village, said. On Aug. 29 ...

New York City officials insist there's no water problem at NYCHA's Jacob Riis houses on the Lower East Side, just as they insisted there was no water poisoning two years ago. Eyewitness News got ...