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 ...

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 ...

The Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station was captured on film by Jacob A Riis in 1895. Riis's photographs of the New York slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society.