Aerial view of jacob riis park, with the section of the beach popular with the lgbt community at the center of the photo (in front of the neponsit hospital complex), 1956 Photo by and courtesy of the nyc department of parks and recreation. Nyc plans to demolish neponsit beach hospital, a former tuberculosis facility, on jacob riis beach in queens The city wants to create a park on the site, wiping out the decrepit structure facing. Named in 1914, jacob riis park receives its title from the muckraking journalist jacob riis More than merely a name bestowed to a beach, riis’s radical photography—compiled into how the other half lives—focused on exposing the massive wealth disparity in new york city
And true to the nature of his work, riis beach is a place for living. Jacob riis park, also called jacob a Riis park[2] and riis park, [3] is a seaside park on the southwestern portion of the rockaway peninsula in the new york city borough of queens Originally run by the new york city department of parks and recreation, it later. The former neponsit hospital has long shielded the people’s beach at jacob riis park in queens, from prying eyes As it crumbles, queer and nude communities there fear for the beach’s future.
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