ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) –More than 50 years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island was exposed for its horrific treatment of those with developmental disabilities. The documentary ...

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 ...

Staten Island Advance/Tony Caran ... and Brancaccio begin their searing documentary. They take us through the horror of what once was the infamous Willowbrook, from the crumbling abandoned mansion ...

Staten Island has a skeleton ... the legacy of Willowbrook lives on, partly serving as the inspiration for the second season of American Horror Story, Asylum. Yet, perhaps what happened on the ...

Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie. “Cropsey ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Barbara Blum -- the state ... and in that role oversaw the dissolution of warehouse-style asylum, Willowbrook State School, carrying out the decree that ordered the ...

These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the ... as commentator on a 57-minute documentary about the school called ...

If you're fascinated by stories of abandoned and rundown hospitals or asylums ... complicated healthcare history. Willowbrook was a large facility in Staten Island, New York.

When a group of friends and neighbors from Staten Island ventured into Manhattan last weekend to watch a hard-hitting crime documentary ... who had escaped from Willowbrook, the massive state ...

They gathered on Friday, May 2 at the College of Staten Island — built on the grounds where Willowbrook once stood — to describe not only how Willowbrook became emblematic of an era when ...