Monument Honoring Famed Journalist Nellie Bly Opens On Roosevelt Island

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A new monument honoring pioneering journalist Nellie Bly is open to the public on Roosevelt Island.

It's called "The Girl Puzzle" after Bly's first published work.

It features a representation of Bly as well as four other faces representing a variety of women.

Bly's most celebrated work, "Ten Days in a Mad-House," is considered the first piece of investigative journalism.

Bly pretended to be insane to get into the Blackwell Island Asylum on the island and expose its horrific conditions.

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