![]() Thanks to all who participated in tonight’s discussion Open City. ![]() ![]() Langley’s body was found a few weeks later he had been killed by a booby trap set for Navigating their way through the detritus before discovering Homer’s corpse covered in an old bathrobe. When the police learned in March 1947 that there might be a body buried inside, they headed to the house and spent two hours The brothers, Homer and Langley, occupied the house until they died in the 1940s. The site is now empty, a pocket park where New Yorkers might sit and think on the horrors of overeager acquisition. Of rubbish and memorabilia in a Harlem brownstone at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue. Doctorow’s 2009 novel, “Homer & Langley,” lived and died surrounded by more than 120 tons The Collyer Brothers, American history’s best known hoarders and the subject of E.L. The box overhead was set to topple if disturbed by intruders. ![]() Officials identified a booby trap waiting inside the Collyer Brothers' Harlem brownstone at 128th Street and Fifth Avenue in 1947. ![]()
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