Europe’s impressionists and old masters have been claiming high prices for years, but the most recent success story in the art market deals with a contingent of sleepers who, like Rip Van Winkle ...

The legend of Cropsey originated in New York City ... who worked at the Willowbrook State School on Staten Island and lived in nearby campsites, was convicted for kidnapping multiple children.

What it’s about: According to local lore, Cropsey was an escaped patient from a nearby abandoned mental institution who would snatch children off the streets on Staten Island, New York.

Cropsey lives on in the imaginations and under the beds of the people of Staten Island. Zeman and Bracaccio's film is as much about the nature of fear in a societal setting and the unseen scars ...

Long told to spook children on Staten Island, according to local lore, Cropsey was an escaped patient from a nearby abandoned mental institution who would snatch children off the streets.

“You know, there’s 60 million tourists that visit New York every year. Millions of them get on the Staten Island ferry. We want them to get off on Staten Island,” Andrew Kimball, president ...

Cropsey is an urban legend centered in Staten Island, N.Y., but spreading throughout the Eastern seaboard. According to tales told mostly around the campfire, Cropsey was the name of a mental patient ...

Children in Staten Island grew up hearing spooky stories about a child-snatching boogeyman named "Cropsey" — and when Andre Rand started kidnapping and allegedly murdering local children, it seemed as ...

STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- Staten Island will join New Jersey in filing a lawsuit against the proposed controversial congestion pricing plan. Many Staten Islanders who commute to Manhattan take the ...

STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- On Oct. 24, 1978, Ethel Louise Atwell of Newark, went to work on Staten Island and never returned home. It was dark -- around 6 a.m. -- when she arrived at her job as a ...