CROPSEY 1 (ba) Filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, like many in Staten Island, grew up with the legend of “Cropsey,” a local Boogeyman who allegedly lived in the woods, and killed ...

In a new documentary, "Cropsey," filmmakers and former borough residents Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio ask two questions burned in Staten Island's collective psyche that may never be ...

It touched the filmmakers, too. Like most every kid growing up on Staten Island at the time, “Cropsey” co-directors Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio were well-versed in the details of the ...

Or strolling around the grounds of the abandoned Willowbrook mental institution on Staten Island. Josh Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio chose to take the walk. The outcome was a movie. “Cropsey ...

According to the documentary “Cropsey,” the borough is home to ... revisit troubling events from their years growing up on Staten Island: the disappearance of five local kids in the 1980s ...

Growing up on Staten Island, Zeman and Brancaccio had often heard the legend of "Cropsey" - the escaped mental patient who lived in the abandoned tunnels of the Willowbrook mental hospital and ...

In 1987, on Staten Island in New York City, a 13-year-old girl with Down syndrome disappeared. There were others — mentally handicapped children who disappeared on Staten Island in the ’70s ...

On Friday night, ID premieres “Cropsey,” a film made by Staten Island natives Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio, who grew up with the urban legend that was born after Geraldo’s series ran ...

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Zeman and Brancaccio grew up in separate areas of the borough, hearing tales of “Cropsey,” an ax-wielding escaped mental patient who roamed Staten Island in search of kids. But what began as ...

the New Brighton-based historian who is director emeritus of Historic Richmond Town and an advisor to the Staten Island Museum. The spot where Jasper Cropsey created his "Looking Oceanward ...

Many dark stories are associated with The Staten Island Farm Colony: Bank robber, Willie Sutton, was once a city worker at the complex, and serial killer, Cropsey, was blamed for a 1920s abduction ...