collyer's mansion
Firefighter term 'Collyers' Mansion' coined for hoarding Harlem brothers. A cop lifts a box of rubbish on second floor of the decaying Collyer mansion on the corner of Fifth Ave. and 128th St., where brothers Homer and Langley Collyer were found dead among trash in 1947. Collyersâ Mansion is a term every firefighter fears. The phrase was coined in 1947 after two wealthy brothers, Homer and Langley Collyer, were discovered dead among a mound of newspapers, books, tin cans, rotting trash and a phony two-headed baby in formaldehyde in their Harlem home.