When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

When she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum; Annual Report. ... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 11, 1869, Page 5 Buy Reprints. View on timesmachine.

Today, we’re rounding up some of New York City’s former asylums. Some are extremely creepy; others you would never expect to have once housed the clinically insane. 5.

People wanting to wander around the former Willard Psychiatric State Hospital, ... New York State; Former New York insane asylum overrun with tourists . Published: May. 18, 2015, ...

Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, also known as the Richardson Olmsted Complex, is a psychiatric facility built by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1871 in mid upstate New York.

The island’s Octagon, formerly the New York Lunatic Asylum — made infamous by journalist Nellie Bly’s 1887 exposé “Inside the Madhouse” — was turned into a 500-unit rental building in ...

NEWBURG, N.Y., Oct. 21. -- An escape which was one of the most daring in the history of jail breaking in New York State occurred at the Matteawan State Hospital for Criminal Insane this evening ...

W hen she went undercover in a New York City insane asylum in 1887, Nellie Bly was surrounded by a world of grim horror. “Nearly all night long I listened to a woman cry about the cold and beg ...

Audrey Munson in 1915 Library of Congress. She was known as “the most perfect model,” and in her heyday, one headline proclaimed, “All New York Bows to the Real Miss Manhattan.” ...