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What’s Left of Abandoned Willowbrook State School Now on Staten Island
The library at the College of Staten Island houses the Willowbrook Archives in which ... sign that once denoted the location of Building Number 19, a men’s dormitory known for its zoo-like ...
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'Willowbrook Mile' a place to learn from an ugly history, build progress
WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC) -- The new Willowbrook Mile on the College of Staten Island campus is a place to learn from an ugly history and to build on the progress. Fifty years ago ...
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Revisiting the atrocities that once consumed the halls of Willowbrook State School in Staten Island – WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
The early years Young patients sleep, curled up in carts, in Building #29 at Willowbrook State School, Staten Island, New York, January 1972. The facility that would later become the Willowbrook ...
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Owner of trendy NYC pediatric practice opens second Staten Island office in ‘Lego building’
His first Staten Island office opened at 1735 Richmond Ave. in Willowbrook in March. The physician running the Grant City location is Dr. Mohamed Elzalata. The doctors running the Willowbrook ...
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Revisiting Willowbrook 50 years later with reporter Geraldo Rivera
NEW YORK (WABC) -- It's been 50 years since the WABC-TV documentary that blew the cover off of the horrible living conditions of disabled children and adults at a facility on Staten Island called ...