The victim was Carrie Brown, a self-styled actor (an undated photo). The evidence implicating ... reporter and social reformer Jacob Riis. Other exculpatory evidence surfaced only after the ...

Photos from the late 19th century and early ... The cramped conditions also led to many fires in major cities. Jacob Riis' "How The Other Half Lives," a photojournalism book documenting the ...

(Photo by Michelle Vivian-Jamison ... (AFP; Getty Images) The Jacob Riis Settlement has been helping New Yorkers for decades. Now some of those boys are old men and they are helping the next ...

Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers, 35, was pulled out of the ocean and rushed from the Rockaways to Coney Island Hospital, where he ...

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 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 ...