The Strange but True Story of the Collyer Brothers, New York's Greatest Hoarders, An Urban Historical
by
Franz Lidz
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
A true tale of changing New York by Franz Lidz, whose Unstrung Heroes is a classic of hoarder lore.
Homer and Langley Collyer moved into their handsome brownstone in white, upper-class Harlem in 1909. By 1947, however, when the fire department had to carry Homer's body out of the house he hadn't left...