Joan Paul Alcivar De La Cruz fled persecution in Ecuador and was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at his ...

Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum; Annual Report. ... THE LUNATIC ASYLUM.; Annual Report of the New-York City Aslyum--Interesting Facts and Figures. Share full article. April 11, 1869.

DANVERS, Mass. — In real estate, not even spooky trumps location. Across the nation, former state hospitals for the mentally ill -- with dated names like “lunatic asylum” -- are being ...

I recently stayed in New York City on a skinny island in the middle of the East River, not far from the old New York City Lunatic Asylum, which is what that institution was called in the 1840s ...

NYC sees new surge in asylum seekers ahead of court battle 02:54. NEW YORK -- With New York City and New York state headed for a high-stakes court battle Wednesday over the right to shelter, the ...

Since the spring of 2022, New York City has stood up a sprawling system of emergency shelters and makeshift tent cities to house the tens of thousands of asylum-seekers who have come through the ...

New York City will open the city’s first asylum-seeker arrival center next week, as hundreds of migrants continue to arrive in the city each day, following the expiration of a pandemic-era ...