There is nothing more impactful – or heartbreaking – than reading the original Staten Island Advance reporting, which first brought average Staten Islanders inside the institution. We are ...

The birth of the “Snake Pit” Mentally handicapped patients sleep in chairs at Willowbrook State School, Staten Island ... conducted an investigation inside Willowbrook to determine living ...

An idyllic-looking postcard from the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island ... and parents were not allowed inside much of the facilities apart from the official room where they would visit ...

In the upcoming short narrative " ," a young pediatrician arrives at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island in 1964 to begin his residency. He finds that the institution is taking part in a ...

Staten Island Advance/Tony Caran In the 1970s, young reporter Geraldo Rivera, looking to make his bones as an investigative journalist, took cameras inside the Willowbrook State School on Staten ...

Along with a camera crew, he filmed the gruesome inside ... of Staten Island. They are surrounded by a memorial walking trail named the Willowbrook Mile, put in place by the school and the Office ...

In 1972, ABC aired an exposé on the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island ... reporter named Geraldo Rivera took a camera crew inside the institution, and gave the country a firsthand ...

Fifty years ago this month, the legacy of Willowbrook State School sparked ... of children and adults who lived at the state school on Staten Island. Outraged parents became activists determined ...

When Migdalia was 7 years old, in 1964, her parents placed her at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island ... Rivera aired graphic footage from inside the children’s ward.

WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC ... Fifty years ago, the world got a glimpse inside the walls of an institution that was called a school. It was anything but that. Children and adults with ...