Following the conclusion to a landmark vote this week, Jacob Riis Houses will stay public. NYCHA residents there have voted ...

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 ... been featured at SXSW and many other festivals and published ...

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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 ...

An award-winning filmmaker drowned at Jacob Riis Park ... with half of it sticking upright out of the water. They unsuccessfully tried to revive Rogers. Riis Park has been the scene of at least ...

Contemporary accounts point to other factors in the governor’s decision. Daniel Czitrom, co-author of the 2008 book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, believes that Damon’s affidavit was of primary ...