The New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has accused the city’s housing authority of breaking state laws last summer after a contractor disturbed potentially toxic soil at the Jacob ...

NEW YORK - Beach erosion may be contributing to dangerous swimming conditions at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, and experts say common solutions come with consequences. Bonnie Siegel knows Jacob Riis ...

EAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The New York City Mayor's Office said Friday that the lab that originally found arsenic in the water at a NYCHA housing complex has issued a full retraction. The lab ...

Any student and enthusiast of New York City’s urban development knows Jacob A. Riis, author of the book How The Other Half Lives. Whether you’re in class, have gone to one of the Tenement Museum’s ...

The bodies found in the waters off the Rockaways over the weekend were officially identified Wednesday as teens Elyjha Chandler and Christian Perkins, officials said. Elyjha, 16, and Christian, 17, ...

Zulay Velazquez has lived at the Jacob Riis NYCHA development in the East Village for more than 40 years. Velazquez, along with the roughly 3,600 other residents, has a big decision — to remain as a ...

The boardwalk at Jacob Riis Beach will get a facelift this fall. The National Park Service, which runs the federally owned portion of Rockaway, announced the $2.7 million refurbishment of the ...

Time now for StoryCorps. Today, memories of a character on one of New York City's most popular beaches. Oswaldo Gomez, better known as Ms. Colombia, was a fixture in Jacob Riis Park. You couldn't miss ...

A Queens surfer died after he was carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at the beach in Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, the Daily News has learned. Police responding to a 911 call about 12:40 ...

Image source: NPS – as the Jacob Riis bust was being installed originally After Hurricane Sandy, the children likely wondered, but did not ask about what had happened to the Riis bust, since Jacob ...