In his biography of a city bureaucrat, Robert Caro created a lasting portrait of American corruption by turning the craft of ...

NYC visitors have their work cut out for them ... suggesting visitors follow that experience up with a trip to Jacob Riis Park “for a few hours on the beach” and more birdwatching.

and we look forward to continuing this work in close partnership with the residents we serve." But residents say change isn't ...

August 23, 2024 • Two friends, Victoria Cruz and Carlos Villacres, remember Osvaldo Gómez, known as Ms. Colombia, who was a fixture in Jacob Riis Park in Queens. She gave free legal advice to ...

The United States Coast Guard and the FDNY have suspended their search for two teenage boys who went missing in the water at Jacob Riis Park Beach on Friday afternoon, officials announced Saturday.

Ultimately, the immigrant story should be humanizing, focusing on the individual and collective experiences of immigrants. It should be inclusive, representing the diversity of immigrant backgrounds ...

When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives ... If there is an abiding message in Riis’s work, it is to look closely where the smart crowd refuses to look. That is where one will find ...

Take a peek inside the abandoned Art Deco bathhouse in Jacob Riis Park on Rockaway Beach—a beautiful, mostly defunct former seaside idyll that opened in 1932. In an empty lot on Houston Street ...

He was the second of four children. He attended Jefferson, Fort Hill, and Jacob Riis high schools before dropping out to work at a variety of jobs. Padilla had a checkered record with the Los ...

The article by Jacob Riis entitled "Men or Money--Which ... and we should have ten years' work to do over again. And there is enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements in ...

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