Unlike other developments where NYCHA has held votes in recent years, residents at the Jacob Riis Houses will choose between only two options: the Permanent Affordability Commitment Together (PACT) ...
He made his mark as a designer of experimental playgrounds in New York City and then used the same ideas to reinvent urban ...
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 ...
New York City officials insist there's no water problem at NYCHA's Jacob Riis houses on the Lower East Side, just as they insisted there was no water poisoning two years ago. Eyewitness News got ...
Residents are saying "enough is enough." Outside the Jacob Riis Houses on the Lower East Side, residents protested with a ...
In 1890, muckraking journalist Jacob A. Riis forced New Yorkers to face the ugly underside of their otherwise thriving society. Riis's "How the Other Half Lives," a classic in photojournalism ...