Jacob A. Riis’s New York A selection of haunting, late-19th-century photographs by Jacob A. Riis from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

The tap water at the Jacob Riis Houses is "clear for drinking again," the press secretary for Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday afternoon.

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 ...

An award-winning 35-year-old filmmaker drowned surfing after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along notoriously treacherous waters at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

A museum in Jacob Riis' hometown honors the urban photography he made in New York!

The boardwalk at Jacob Riis Beach will get a facelift this fall. The National Park Service, which runs the federally owned portion of Rockaway, announced the $2.7 million refurbishment of the ...

Two friends, Victoria Cruz and Carlos Villacres, remember Osvaldo Gómez, known as Ms. Colombia, who dispensed legal advice at Jacob Riis Park -- one of New York's most-popular beaches.