The island is now used primarily as a potter’s field, but in its past it has housed a POW camp, a rehab facility, and a women’s insane asylum. New York City purchased Hart Island in 1869 ...

New York City is no stranger to abandoned buildings. Abandoned hospitals and asylums are some of the most well-worn destinations on the urban explorer path, and the areas just outside of the city ...

You don’t open a hotel in a giant abandoned asylum if you don’t want to embrace ... the second city of New York State, close to Niagara Falls. Its corridors – bathed in soft light and ...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Eric Adams says hundreds ... Meanwhile, Staten Island Assemblyman Sam Pirozzolo says 300 asylum seekers will be heading to the abandoned Hungerford School on Tompkins Avenue.

The grounds of Willard State Hospital, once the home of the largest mental institution in Upstate New York ... into the Willard Asylum for the Chronically Insane. Its residents were people ...

NEWARK, N.J., Jan. 21 -- James E. Baremore, a former diamond broker of New-York, but who of late years has spent much of his time in insane asylums, applied to Vice Chancellor Emery to-day to have ...

During the early morning hours on Wednesday, four-buses filled with asylum seeker families arrived at the Port Authority from Philadelphia after a plane from Texas to New York carrying them was ...

Rahim of Mauritania, right, stands outside of the Crossroads Hotel in Newburgh, N.Y. on May 30, 2023. The asylum process for immigrants is long and unwieldy. And even as it offers a roadmap of ...