Mamet satirizes a growing sense that certain politicians have no idea of how real life works. It’s funny that Mamet can’t tell a credit card from a library card, but not so funny that the president of ...

Daniel Czitrom, co-author of the 2008 book Rediscovering Jacob Riis, believes that Damon’s affidavit was of primary importance to the governor. For his part, Dekle stresses the influence of ...

An award-winning filmmaker drowned at Jacob Riis Park in Queens last week after his surfboard apparently got tangled in a decrepit wooden jetty, a deadly obstruction residents have begged the ...

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 ...

A drowning surfer who died after being carried out of the ocean by good Samaritans at Queens’ Jacob Riis Park was a rising documentary filmmaker whose first feature is about to have its US premiere.

It was the muckraker Jacob Riis who famously wrote about how the Lower East Side’s other half lived. Riis was given his due when, in 1949, a public housing complex by Walker & Gillette was named ...