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 ...

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 ...

The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. In 1930, ...

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 ...

In a brazen early morning assault, suspected armed bandits abducted three residents of Marere Hausawa, a community located on the outskirts of Damba in Gusau Local Government Area, Zamfara State.

Several communities in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State came under attack late Saturday night as armed bandits reportedly raided and set homes ablaze, forcing scores of residents to ...

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 ...

Gunmen led by a notorious bandits’ kingpin, Bakin Malam, have invaded Makera community in Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. DAILY POST learnt that they kidnapped an unspecified ...