BLACKWELL ISLAND – The New York City Lunatic Asylum

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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