While gilded ceilings and furnishings are coated in gold, appearing shiny and luxurious, they serve as a metaphor for the ...

Riis admits to paying children with cigarettes to get them to pose as lazy “Street Arabs” sleeping under an apartment stoop. He threatened a landlord with a complaint to the authorities to gain access ...

The museum perfectly packages Jacob A. Riis’ story into a biographic museum with an old-fashioned New York flavor. The museum’s exhibitions comprehensively portray Riis' life journey and its ...