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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

drowned surfing April 12 after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along notoriously treacherous waters at Jacob Riis Park in Queens. Nearby residents have been demanding for years ...

A Bend man was arrested early this morning in connection with a drive-by shooting that took place Thursday night on NE ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS – Jacob Fatu proved Saturday night in the first WrestleMania match of his career that he is an unstoppable force and there are no forces that could even come close to stopping him.