Bloomingdale Insane Asylum
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"In December 1933, William Seabrook was committed at his own request and with the help of some of his friends to Bloomingdale, a mental institution in Westchester County, near New York City for treatment for acute alcoholism. He remained a patient of the institution until the following July and in 1935 published an account of his experience, written as if it were no more than another expedition to a foreign locale. The book, Asylum[1], became another best-seller. In the preface, he was careful to state that his books were not "fiction or embroidery."" --Sholem Stein |
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The Bloomingdale Insane Asylum (1821–1889) was a private hospital for the care of the mentally ill that was founded by New York Hospital. It occupied the land in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan where Columbia University is now located. It relocated to White Plains as the "Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic," now known as the "New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Westchester."
