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How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York (1890) is an early publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. The photographs served as a basis for future "muckraking" journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle classes. They ...
Riis took several pictures of these children, during the journalistic and photographic work that led to the publication of his landmark book How the Other Half Lives (1890), where they were published with the title of Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters. [1]
Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street (1888) by Jacob Riis. Bandits' Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street is a black and white photograph produced by Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer Jacob Riis in 1888.
The apartment was one of three in two adjoining buildings we had found, within half an hour, similarly crowded. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Even sometimes with controversial methods, his photographic and journalistic work helped to create legislation that would allow better sanitary life conditions for the poorest classes.
The New York City Half Marathon (branded as the United Airlines NYC Half) is an annual half marathon road running race from Brooklyn's Prospect Park to Manhattan's Central Park via the Manhattan Bridge, held since 2006. [a] It passes through or by Times Square, Grand Central, and both Grand Army Plazas. New York Road Runners (NYRR) administers ...
More than half of the 60 participants (from over 25 countries) are New-York based; all are showing a cross-section of the most sought-after names in contemporary art today.
A flag flies at half mast in honor of Queen Elizabeth II at Brooklyn Borough Hall in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. (Gardiner Anderson/)
New York City, like other large cities, has a high degree of income disparity, as indicated by its Gini coefficient of 0.55 as of 2017. [107] In the first quarter of 2014, [needs update] the average weekly wage in New York County (Manhattan) was $2,749, representing the highest total among large counties in the United States. [108]