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 patients were committed to the Willard Asylum for the Insane in Upstate New York, they arrived with a suitcase packed with all of the possessions they thought they needed for their time inside.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Thousands of people wanting an inside look at the Willard Psychiatric State Hospital were turned ... children's center -- inside the former insane asylum. For the past eight ...

The displacement of the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum exemplifies how mental health facilities struggled, and continue to struggle, in New York’s competitive real estate market. This post contains ...

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 ...

A Bronx high school student from Venezuela was detained by federal immigration officials last week following a court ...

The New York Hospital, founded as the first hospital in New York City in 1771, established the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum in 1821 as an extension with the advocacy of New York Hospital board member ...

To the Editor of The New York Times: It is impossible for one who has been an "incurably insane" inmate of a Connecticut sanitarium to give an adequate expression of pleasure at seeing a newspaper ...