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Feb 8, 2011 · Discover Collyer Brothers Park in New York, New York: Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.
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Jul 23, 2021 · Collyer Brothers Park is located on 5th Avenue at 128th Street in Harlem. Here’s a piece of old New York for you ~ The Collyer brothers – Homer, born in 1881 and his brother Langley, born in 1885. They were the children of an eccentric gynecologist and a former opera singer.
Homer Lusk Collyer (November 6, 1881 – March 21, 1947) and Langley Wakeman Collyer (October 3, 1885 – c. March 9, 1947), known as the Collyer brothers, were two American brothers who became infamous for their bizarre natures and compulsive hoarding.
Jul 18, 2017 · New York City's Collyer brothers holed up inside their house for more than a decade, amassing 120 tons of junk that ultimately killed them.
- Gabe Paoletti
Nov 6, 2020 · Since the 1960s, the site of the former Collyer house has been a pocket park, named for the brothers. The Collyer brothers were sons of Herman Livingston Collyer (1857–1923), a Manhattan gynecologist who worked at Bellevue Hospital, and his first cousin, Susie Gage Frost (1856–1929), a former opera singer.
Oct 21, 2013 · Collyer Brothers Park. When the police broke down the door of a Harlem brownstone on March 21, 1947, they had no idea they would find what would be one of the most infamous examples of...
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