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 ...

The Pavilion building of New York's rarely-visited Hart Island has housed not only a narcotic rehab facility in the 70s, but a 19th-century women's asylum.

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 ...

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 ...

One fall day in 1887, the New York police were contacted by the worried inhabitants of a women’s boarding house. The cops soon arrived and picked up a disturbed young woman named Nellie Brown ...

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 ...

She recovered, but in 1931 was committed to an asylum in Ogdensburg, NY. The model lived there until her death in 1996 at age 104. All but forgotten, she was buried in an unmarked grave.

In 1816, The New York State Hospital acquired rights to land in Bloomingdale, ... much like how journalist Nellie Bly infiltrated the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Roosevelt Island.

The Octagon on Roosevelt Island, formerly the New York Lunatic Asylum made infamous by journalist Nellie Bly ... The echoes of women screaming for help burned in her ears as she tried to sleep. 5.

Although more men than women were admitted to New York State insane asylums last year, the percentage of new cases was less for women than for men, because—the State Department of Mental ...