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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Jack the Ripper was so widely notorious even then that Thomas Byrnes ... reporter and social reformer Jacob Riis. Other exculpatory evidence surfaced only after the trial. Russell also recalled ...

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 ...

They are also uniquely American, with patriots ranging from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Nast using simple comics to communicate complex messages. This tradition was continued by Jerry Siegel and ...

Bobby Brown is sharing his real thoughts on Britney Spears remaking his biggest hit. The Grammy Award-winning R&B star revealed on Wednesday that he didn’t care for the pop sensation’s cover ...