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

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

Three people residing in NYCHA apartments have filed a lawsuit against the development for not disclosing violations.

When Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives in 1890, New York City’s Lower East Side was the epicenter of American tenement life. At one point, almost three hundred thousand people were ...

Residents are saying "enough is enough." Outside the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, residents protested with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The article by Jacob Riis entitled "Men or Money--Which?", published below, is the first of a series written for the Intercollegiate Civic League by men of both political parties who are prominent ...

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 journalist Jacob Riis brought important attention to the urban poor, but the reactions he inspired were not always helpful, says a recent book The Poor Side of Town: And Why We Need It ...