reporter and social reformer Jacob Riis. Other exculpatory evidence surfaced only after the trial. Russell also recalled that the Herald received a letter from a seaman who said a shipmate of his ...

A Queens surfer died after he was carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at the beach in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, the Daily News has learned. Police responding to a 911 call about 12 ...