The speakers were Jacob A. Riis, Dr. E.R.L. Gould, Roger Foster, and Richard Watson Gilder. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Emma Barash met Mitchell Schwartz when she brought a sensitive issue to his attention while they worked at New York City Hall.

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 ...

The exhibition Documentary Genealogies. Photography 1848-1917 explores, throughout seven rooms, the historical background of documentary photography between the revolutions of 1848 and 1917. In 1930, ...

Jacob Riis, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement, 1889. Today for the Washington Monthly I argued that Joe Biden should abandon his opposition to Japanese-owned Nippon Steel taking over ...