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 ...

FILE – The waters off Jacob Riis Park Beach in Queens is pictured on Sunday, June 30, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News) When Rogers disappeared underwater, two bystanders ...

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.

An award-winning filmmaker drowned at Jacob Riis Park in Queens last week after his surfboard apparently got tangled in a decrepit wooden jetty, a deadly obstruction residents have begged the ...

Daniel Czitrom, co-author of the 2008 book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, believes that Damon’s affidavit was of primary importance to the governor. For his part, Dekle stresses the influence of ...

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis described the virus’s devastating effects in New York City’s tenement housing in the 1880s, where impoverished and starving people gathered in close ...

The so-called Roosevelt Reservation was created in the early 1900s by then President Theodore Roosevelt to stop ... Romero Ruiz reports. But this move goes further. “Trump’s ordered transfer ...

Mildred and Philip Sawyer Papers / New-York Historical Society Theodore Roosevelt was famously possessed of such formidable natural energy that he was known at Harvard as a “locomotive in human ...