Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half Lives. Whether you’re in class, have gone to one of the Tenement Museum’s ...
EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York City Mayor's Office said Friday that the lab that originally found arsenic in the water at a NYCHA housing complex has issued a full retraction. The lab ...
Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn-of-the-Century New York, by Bonnie Yochelson and Daniel Czitrom, The New Press, $35. In his autobiography, Jacob Riis tells of ...
The water supply at the Riis Houses in Manhattan was declared free of arsenic late Wednesday — but the city is still discouraging residents at the public housing complex from using their taps because ...
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 12:40 ...
Image source: NPS – as the Jacob Riis bust was being installed originally After Hurricane Sandy, the children likely wondered, but did not ask about what had happened to the Riis bust, since Jacob ...
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