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?

some lost family members while the institution was still operating. Pediatrician Debra Weissbach’s brother Robert was sent to Willowbrook in 1958, when he was 5 years old. Photos of her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

although he was not mentally impaired. Carabello was released from Willowbrook following Rivera's exposé of the institution's practices.