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.

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 ...

Daniel Czitrom, co-author of the 2008 book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, believes that Damon’s affidavit was of primary importance to the governor. For his part, Dekle stresses the influence of ...

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the virus’s devastating effects in New York City’s tenement housing in the 1880s, where impoverished and starving people gathered in close ...

Jacob Couch, 32, was sitting on a bus stop bench with his wife, Kristen, in Tucson, Arizona when 25-year-old Daniel Michael confronted the pair on April 5. Michael was allegedly carrying a hatchet ...

British No.2 Jacob Fearnley defeated Spain’s Roberto Carballes Baena to advance to the round of 16 of the Barcelona Open. In his first-ever main draw match on clay at an ATP 500 tournament ...

A hatchet-wielding suspect nearly decapitated 32-year-old Jacob Couch at a Tuscon, Arizona, bus stop earlier this month while he was traveling with his wife back home to their native Alabama.

BELOIT, Wis. — When the Quad Cities River Bandits weren’t striking out Thursday evening against the hosting Beloit Sky Carp, they were doing plenty of good things – offensively, defensively ...

The Newport Jazz Festival will feature Janelle Monáe, the Roots and Jacob Collier as its headliners for its 71st edition this August, with Raye, Jorja Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Willow ...

Bobby Brown is sharing his real thoughts on Britney Spears remaking his biggest hit. The Grammy Award-winning R&B star revealed on Wednesday that he didn’t care for the pop sensation’s cover ...