in particular the photographer, 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 ...

He was the official photographer for the Department of Bridges ... "He was a great chronicler of the city, in the tradition of Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Stieglitz and Berenice Abbott," says Mellins.

An award-winning 35-year-old filmmaker drowned surfing after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along ...

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 ...

For years, Timmy Reen tried to hide his compulsions and rituals from everyone at his New York City firehouse — until his ...

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s high-stakes defamation lawsuit against The Times is about “more than words on a page” — it’s ...

“It’s a bit of a shock.” Photos of Trachtenberg on social media appearing frail and gaunt drew concerns from fans that she was in ill health or battling addiction. In January, she responded ...

At the Chicago Comic Con and Entertainment Expo, over the weekend of April 12, original Starship Troopers cast members Dina ...

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 ...

The WNBA general managers made their choices. One specific prospect didn’t get called. TCU center Sedona Prince went undrafted in Monday’s WNBA Draft after being the subject of several sexual ...