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.

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 Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Collection" press preview in New York City on June 1, 2023. (AFP; Getty Images) The Jacob Riis Settlement has been helping New Yorkers for decades. Now some of ...

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 ...

Are you a tenant living at the Jacob Riis Houses? Share your thoughts about the upcoming ... which manages everything from maintenance to rent collection. Votes at other NYCHA campuses in recent years ...

Valerie has work forthcoming in an edited collection on Nigerian playwright Tess Onwueme ... focusing on the rapidly changing landscape of People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park in Neponsit, Queens. They ...

Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half Lives. Whether you’re in class, have gone to one of the Tenement ...

The grim discoveries came eight days after Elyjha and Christian Perkins, 17, vanished in the water off Jacob Riis Park on June 21. Cops found one body off Beach 114th St. and the Ocean Promenade ...

Erosion is rapidly washing away the shoreline of Jacob Riis Park in Rockaway — and the National Park Service says the ongoing problem has created “extremely hazardous” swimming conditions in ...