Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half ...

These people were America’s “other half,” as the social reformer Jacob Riis called them in 1890 ... making it illegal to ...

To one man on Long Island, the hurricane which devastated Fire Island and the continuing strip of seabeach that runs as far east as Southampton (TIME, Oct. 3) spelled Opportunity as well ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Jacob Riis did a generation earlier ... the only degree he ever earned was an FFM degree because he had to go to work at the Fulton Fish Market when his father died. Smith emerged from Tammany ...

In these settlement houses Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, Jenkin Lloyd Jones ... and it is therefore doubly hard to prove to them that their work is done, that the task is now one of engineering ...

He soon found himself collecting concrete towers, particularly the buildings of the brutalist movement of the 1960s and ’70s, ...

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

This work sets forth the basic political philosophy ... 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 ocean ...

Anthony's work resulted in passage of the 1860 Married ... Coppin State College in Baltimore is named in her honor. Jacob "Jake" Riis, the Danish-born journalist and photographer, was among ...