The Museum of the City of New York recently announced that next month Elisabeth Sherman will become the institution’s chief curator and deputy director. The museum is well beloved by locals for ...

A tenement apartment photographed by Jacob Riis. Bettmann Archive/Contributor/Getty Images The poor hygiene, sanitation, and ventilation in tenement dwellings made disease outbreaks spread quickly.

A tenement apartment photographed by Jacob Riis. Bettmann Archive/Contributor/Getty Images The poor hygiene, sanitation, and ventilation in tenement dwellings made disease outbreaks spread quickly.

Photographer Jacob Riis documented the squalid conditions in slums and tenements in New York City, which he published in a book titled "How the Other Half Lives" in 1890.

The cost of housing segregation, first and foremost, is moral. It shrinks social trust, polarizes our people and limits our future.

Among the usually moderate public housing voters who helped power Eric Adams to the mayoralty, Zohran Mamdani outperformed expectations.

Jacob A. Riis’s New York A selection of haunting, late-19th-century photographs by Jacob A. Riis from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

Noble told the Gothamist that they had spent a beach day at Jacob Riis Park in Queens, N.Y. But as they were riding home in the bicycle lane, Noble and her friend rode into the string.