This asylum was run inside Octagon Building which still stands on Roosevelt Island. The asylum opened in 1838, and rumors quickly spread about its brutal abuse of the inmates. In her expose ...

“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island [now Roosevelt Island] is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there, it is impossible to get out,” Bly wrote of her experience inside ...

“The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human ... A view of the Smallpox Hospital inside Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. Remnants from the gothic structure of the Renwick ...

The first floor contains images of other historic Roosevelt Island structures like the Smallpox Hospital, asylum, and the Strecker Laboratory—the first lab in the country devoted exclusively to ...

a pioneer in investigative journalism who went undercover to expose mistreatment at an asylum on the island. Therefore, a trip to Roosevelt Island will bring you history, nature and a high-flying ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid ... Many of the ruins from its asylum, hospital and prison facilities have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Much of Roosevelt Island is vast patches of grass ... The long strip of land in New York’s East River formerly housed a mental hospital, penitentiary, and housing for the poor in its early ...