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.

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 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 ...

The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. In 1930, ...

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.

It’s been that way since the mid-1800s. In addition to these two totem animals, the man who thought them up — political cartoonist Thomas Nast — also thought up the characters of Uncle Sam ...

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 ...

Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas ranted Friday about the level of "professionalism" in the NBA, saying it "has diminished so much." "I just totally, 100% object to this," Thomas said as they ...