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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A crowd of Staten Island residents applauded as dozens of ... days after the FDNY declared the building a fire hazard. Some 200 asylum seekers were packed onto buses and taken to the Roosevelt ...

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 ...