Authorities on Saturday afternoon suspended their search for two teenagers who were reported missing in the waters off Jacob Riis Park in Queens, a shoreline notorious for rip currents that prove ...

Riis was a product of the Romantic Age, which the museum captures in its 22-minute mini-biopic by Saxofilm, one of the first stops in the museum experience. The film is in Danish, but English and ...

Jacob Riis died in 1914 at age 65, after spending more than 30 years as a voice for social reform. A park and a settlement house in New York City bear his name.