The New York Tribune press office at 301 Mulberry Street. Photo by Jacob A. Riis, Museum of the City of New York Collection The wood-framed buildings of Cat Alley and the vicinity photographed by Riis ...

Jacob Riis beach is a space beloved by many in New York City. The “People’s Beach” was notably named after the famed Progressive Era journalist and photographer Jacob Riis, author of How the Other ...

Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young girl holding a baby sits in a doorway in New York City, circa 1890.Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City of New York/Getty ...

Photos of late 19th century Lower East Side life like this one by Jacob Riis helped convince America that private companies could not build decent homes for the poor. Jacob A. Riis/Museum of the City ...

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 ...

The bathhouse at Jacob Riis Park has been sitting so long it could’ve legally collected Social Security. But after 54 years of being boarded up, battered, and basically treated like an abandoned movie ...

Some crises never seem to change, and in New York, it’s our housing crisis. For those of low income, there simply isn’t enough that’s affordable. We declared a housing emergency after World War II — ...