Journalist Nellie Bly will be honored with a memorial on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, the site of a notorious mental hospital she exposed in 1887, according to news outlet The City. Bly ...

Nellie Bly, the 19th-century journalist renowned for her six-part exposé on Blackwell’s Island’s asylum in New York City—which she infiltrated by feigning insanity—will soon be honored with a memorial ...

Thanks to Bly's efforts, conditions at the women's asylum greatly improved Public domain In September 1887, Nellie Bly assumed the persona of “insane girl” Nellie Brown to go under cover at the ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - The City of Lake Charles broke ground today on Nellie Lutcher Memorial Park on Enterprise Boulevard, part of the effort to revitalize the area as the Nellie Lutcher Cultural ...