An island long known for its hospitals, prison and Lunatic Asylum is getting its first hotel. Located in the middle of New York City’s East River, between Queens and Manhattan, Roosevelt ...

The purpose of Roosevelt Island has changed as drastically as the surrounding ... And of course, there was the New York City Insane Asylum where the journalist Bly exposed foul treatment of the Big ...

“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island [now Roosevelt Island] is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there, it is impossible to get out,” Bly wrote of her experience inside ...

“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human ... A view of the Smallpox Hospital inside Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. Remnants from the gothic structure of the Renwick ...

4. The Ruins of a Smallpox Hospital Remains on Roosevelt Island If the lunatic asylum and prison weren’t enough, another former, creepy institution on Roosevelt Island can be added to the list ...

When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887 ... s covert operation exposing abuses at the asylum at Blackwell’s Island, now Roosevelt Island, pioneered a path for women ...

Roosevelt Island, a skinny strip of land in the East ... Patients in the yard of Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum in the 1860s. With joblessness itself a kind of crime, the indigent were ...

As Judith Berdy, president of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society ... acted her way into being committed to the Blackwell’s Island insane asylum to report on the conditions for Joseph ...

Asylum-seeking migrants from Latin America ... more than 100 adult migrants were waiting Wednesday afternoon outside the Roosevelt Hotel, which reopened in the spring as a city-run mass intake ...

NEW YORK --- The Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan opened ... including Rikers Island, for housing asylum seekers, as more arrive. Marcia Kramer joined CBS News New York in 1990 as an investigative ...

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) -- The line of migrants waiting for days outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown is finally gone, but the ongoing crisis to find shelter for the influx of asylum seekers ...