Stacy Horn is the author of five nonfiction books, including Imperfect Harmony. Horn's commentaries have been heard on NPR's All Things Considered and she is the founder of the social network Echo. She lives in New York City. Her website is stacyhorn.com.
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Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital... SEE MORE