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

The article by Jacob Riis entitled "Men or Money--Which ... Among his books are "The Making of an American," "How the Other Half Lives," "The Children of the Poor," "The Battle of the Slum ...

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 ...

An award-winning 35-year-old filmmaker drowned surfing after his board apparently got tangled in wooden jetties along ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...