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

Staten Island has ... 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 site of ...

These are just a few of the atrocities behind the furtive walls of the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island from the early 1950s until the late 1970s. Hepatitis was injected into patients and ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a darkened room, the boy stares out a frost-covered window. "I have this plan for what I could do if I could control the weather," he thinks. "I'd grow the tree in the ...

The former Willowbrook State School on Staten Island was once synonymous with patient abuse. The last patient moved out 40 years ago this year, and to mark that milestone, we're taking a look back ...

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 ...

The Ramada Inn in Willowbrook, Staten Island was converted to emergency housing for asylum seekers in May. GoogleMaps Police are investigating who had access to the room where the meth was found.

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 ...

NEW YORK -- There was a major turn of events Friday in a legal battle on Staten Island. Asylum seekers that were kicked out of a shelter were later allowed to stay. That prompted protesters to ...

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 ...