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Here's the first page of a manuscript draft for Riis's book How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York.

The vandals scrawled 'heil Hitler' and 'gas chamber' all over the walls of a club building.

Peala Jimenez and a 26-year-old man were reportedly swimming after lifeguards went off duty.

The primary concern at our local beaches is enterococci.

Now's the time!

The Bay 9 pavilion will house Wildfeast Foods for the winter, offering fresh seafood, local meats and vegetables and lots of fun events.

Here are some handy tips and profound insights into our area beaches, which officially reopen this Saturday.

Back in the late 19th century, parts of Lower Manhattan were crime-ridden cesspools filled with tough looking blokes in intimidating bowler hats.

"There is a lot of debris in the sand, from protruding metal and chunks of concrete to just general trash."

Check out North Brother Island right after it became inhabited in the late 1800s.