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Homer and Langley Collyer were an extraordinary pair of brothers. They were born into one of New York Cityâs oldest families (Homer in 1881 ...

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E.L. Doctorow talks to Jane Ciabattari about his astounding new novel, Homer & Langley, and making New York’s strangest pair of brothers come alive.

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New York City fire fighters still use the term "a Collyer's mansion situation" as code for a hoarder's house fire. It usually means it's not safe for them to enter the building. In 1947, it took police five hours to plough through the junk and find the first Collyer brother's body. It took them thre

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The ultimate hoarders: Extraordinary story of the two reclusive brothers found dead side by side under tons of junk in New York mansion in 1947

Homer and Langley Collyer were killed by one of their own junk booby traps but their bodies were hidden by tons of garbage and were not found for weeks in their Manhattan house.

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On another one of my Internet Adventures, I stumbled across a tidbit: whenever an East Coast fire department is sent out to do a rescue f...

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Collyer brothers brownstone, 1947 Front page news on June 13, 1927 was Charles Lindbergh's New York welcome home from his trans-Atlantic flight. The Collyers probably never suspected they'd be front page news 20 years later.

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Located at 2807 Fifth Avenue in Harlem, the home of the Collyer brothers was constantly the subject neighborhood mysteries.

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