Composer Morton Gould, writer Jack Kerouac, the Marx Brothers and Phil Rizzuto are a few of the prominent people who have called Richmond Hill home. But of all the celebrated people to live there, Richmond Hill is proudest of Jacob Riis, the noted journalist, photographer and reformer of late 19th and early 20th century America. Riis made his home on Beech Street south of Division (84th) Avenue. In the years since his passing in 1914, much has changed. Beech Street was renamed 120th Street; his house was torn down in 1968 to make way for a multiple dwelling; and people who live on that block now call it Kew Gardens.