The area was one of the Staten Island's most countrified settings until the Willowbrook State School opened in 1951, an institution that ... Do you have vintage photos of Staten Island?

Rivera's gripping TV coverage of conditions at Willowbrook not only helped shutter the institution, but also changed the way people were treated at such places nationwide. Willowbrook has been ...

“It was like living in hell.” So recalls Bernard of his 18 years at Willowbrook, a state institution for the developmentally disabled on New York’s Staten Island. Mistakenly ...

That's why you'll find markers for a so-called "Willowbrook Mile" on a walking path around campus, each with facts about the old institution and what can be learned from it. Today, nearly all of ...

The merger of these two colleges resulted in the only public four-year institution ... former Willowbrook State School, was completed. Take a look back at the college through vintage photos ...

Geraldo Rivera broke down in tears Tuesday on an episode of Fox Nation's "Deep Dive" as he recalled the sickening neglect and abuse he exposed at New York's Willowbrook State School back in 1972.

Willowbrook State School was the largest institution in the world for people with disabilities. When Geraldo Rivera’s ‘TV Expose’ revealed the inner workings of the institution to a national ...