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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Mid-Island neighborhood of Willowbrook, like many other neighborhoods on the Island, was once all farmland, with a brook running through the area, hence the name ...
WILLOWBROOK -- The Margeann is what could ... One currently serves as a captain of the Staten Island Ferry fleet. This love also passed down to the following generation of Ferenczys.
Two wild turkeys in Staten Island are clearly upset that they only get one day a year to be in the spotlight. The bird duo was seen strolling through the Willowbrook section on Friday afternoon.
WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC) -- Neighbors are fed up over an eye sore in their neighborhood on Staten Island. They say the trash in front of one home is just too much -- and it's causing a ...
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 ...
Nicholas Ercolano has raised his children and now his six grandchildren in the quiet Willowbrook section of Staten Island but said ... it's a good thing for this neighborhood," Frank Scellato ...
An idyllic-looking postcard from the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. Image from the New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons It was Rivera’s report that forced the public to ...
Staten Island Advance ... detectives and neighborhood activists, particularly Donna Cutagno (who has led hundreds of volunteer searchers through the horrifying remains of Willowbrook), managed ...
With a booming real estate market in Williamsburg pricing them out of Brooklyn, members of the Orthodox Jewish community have set their sights on two new neighborhoods on Staten Island. NY1's ...
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 ...