WILLOWBROOK, Staten Island (WABC) -- The new Willowbrook Mile on the College of Staten Island campus is a place to learn from ... institution that was called a school. It was anything but that.

The event was organized by community advocates, including Diane Buglioli, co-founder and board member of A Very Special Place. Buglioli is a former employee of the Willowbrook State School who was ...

THAT WAS THE WILLOWBROOK STATE SCHOOL ON STATEN ISLAND ... THE WORLD MY PARENTS WOULD HAVE SENT THEIR SON TO THIS HORRIBLE PLACE AND HAD PRETTY MUCH DESERTED HIM. AND I SPENT YEARS BEING ANGRY.

That demand 50 years ago made Willowbrook become the birthplace ... who let Rivera and his news crew into the school to expose the treatment taking place, was awarded the Bernard Carabello Self ...

THAT WAS THE WILLOWBROOK STATE SCHOOL ON STATEN ISLAND ... IS JUST TOO SMALL TO DO ANYTHING MORE THAN JUST TRY AND KEEP THE PLACE CLEAN. NO REHABILITATION, NO TRAINING, NOTHING." ...

Renovations are underway for a new medical school building at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Willowbrook. University administration says it's so much more than a new building.