NEW YORK - New York City says the water at Jacob Riis Houses is safe to drink. It comes after a stunning reversal from the city about recent testing that found arsenic in the water at a public housing ...

The City Museum celebrates and interprets New York City, connecting its past, present and future. The Museum of the City of New York presents Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half, a one-of-a ...

NEW YORK - Beach erosion may be contributing to dangerous swimming conditions at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, and experts say common solutions come with consequences. Bonnie Siegel knows Jacob Riis ...

Photo by Jacob A. Riis. Image via Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Roger William Riis Today, most people probably know of journalist and social reformer Jacob A. Riis through the photographic ...

Jacob A. Riis is known to many as the father of photojournalism and a muckraking reporter who exposed the plight of the urban poor in the late 19th century. Riis’ many published works drove a movement ...

Last month, we shared with you a curator walkthrough of the fascinating exhibit, Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York. Here are 10 highlights of the ...

Police say they found two bodies on the shore of the Rockaways over the weekend, and one of them has been identified by family members as a teen who went missing in the water at Jacob Riis Park late ...

Jacob Riis, the muckraking journalist who championed reforms for the poorest New Yorkers at the turn of the century, is still watching over Rockaway from his oceanfront perch. A bronze bust of Riis, ...

Mae Ngai’s “The Chinese Question” looks at an issue that has disturbed the Anglophone world for decades, and continues to produce divisions today. By Yunte Huang A look at one of the entries that ...