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Bookmark or Share- Inside the Collyer brownstone: The story of Harlem’s hermits and their ...Turns out what they're seeing is actually the body of Langley Collyer. The 61-year-old hermit was found dead in his four-story brownstone under a pile of debris.
- The Collyer Brothers: The Original Hoarders Of The 1930s - All That's ...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.
- The Incredible History Behind The Collyer Brothers Park in HarlemCollyer 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.
- The Ghosty Men: The Story of the Collyer BrothersYou better clean your room or you’ll end up like the Collyer Brothers. New York City, a city crammed of 8.6 million people. It’s filled with stories of people who just want to be left alone – recluses, hermits, cloistering themselves from the public eye, closing themselves off from scrutiny.
- The Legendary Collyer Brothers Harlem NY 1881-1947 (Rare Video)A Collyer’s Mansion (also Collyer Mansion or just Collyer) is a modern firefighting term for a dwelling of hoarders that is so filled with trash and debris it becomes a serious danger to the occupants and emergency responders.
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