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 ...

Lucia Frangione, a graduate of Rosebud Theatre, wrote Christmas on the Air in 1993, and this is the second time it has been ...

But the world caught on when Jacob August Riis, a Danish journalist and photographer, started documenting poverty using a recently invented flash magnesium powder. He later released a ...

The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development is legally required to make NYCHA apartment violations publicly ...

Jacob Riis has since been transferred to the National Park Service, and is, in effect, a continuation of neighboring Rockaway Beach. It draws the same eclectic mix of sun-seekers, but its shabbier ...

Jacob A. Riis går også hen og bliver bedste venner med Theodore ... Blandt de iranske sygeplejerske førte den usikre situation til, at 60 sidst i august demonstrerede på Rådhuspladsen i København. De ...

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In August 1943 he was picked up in the citywide ... He completed two years at Jacob Riis High School and worked at a variety of jobs. Ynostroza had been picked up by the Los Angeles police off ...

Three brothers who grew up in Queens are dishing up traditional Bolivian food with a New York twist. They also picked out a pretty unique name, Bolivian Llama Party. PIX11's Chris Cimino went to ...

One newspaper item, dated August, 1962, tells of a landlord from ... Nine is a large strip of low-income public housing (Jacob Riis and Lillian Wald projects) with a population total of ...

Meanwhile, on August 15, 1915, he had married Mary Louise ... was built in less than a year to give the city a Jones Beach type of resort at Jacob Riis Park. An additional mile and a half of ...