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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hook-handed or ax-wielding, he was said to haunt the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook State ... overgrown school grounds. Densely wooded and shielding a warren of underground tunnels, the ...

The route will weave through the grounds that used to house the notorious, Willowbrook State School. That facility closed in the late 1980's after a series of tv reports exposed gruesome ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10)– More than fifty years ago, the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island was exposed for its horrific treatment of those with developmental disabilities by investigative ...

We look back at journalist Geraldo Rivera’s 1972 landmark investigation of Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School, an institution for the developmentally disabled. His expose forever changed ...