BLACKWELL ISLAND – The New York City Lunatic Asylum

Destination Terror · Mar 5, 2025 · 49m

Blackwell Island was a narrow island in New York City's East River that housed several

notorious institutions in the 19th and early 20th centuries, including a

lunatic asylum, prison, and smallpox hospital, where society's unwanted were

isolated from the general population, before being renamed Roosevelt Island and

redeveloped for residential use.

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