Together with former Staten Island Advance reporter Jane Kurtin, Aerts in 1971 walked through the doors of Willowbrook State School and photographed shocking images of children and adults with ...

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 ...

The horrors endured at the Willowbrook State School will never be forgotten. Built for developmentally disabled children and adults in the 1930s, the school became an institution where the borough ...

at Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. In the 1960s, Bobby Kennedy called it a snake pit. In the ’70s, Geraldo Rivera exposed it as a real-life horror story. Tamsen Fadal speaks with ...

Geraldo Rivera, award-winning journalist whose reporting helped lead to the closure of Willowbrook State School, speaks at the College of Staten Island on May 2. He is pictured with advocate ...

Discover the shocking story of Willowbrook State School and Geraldo Rivera's exposé. Explore the dark history of Willowbrook State School and Geraldo Rivera's groundbreaking exposé. Learn about ...

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 ...