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Were you ever a patient?

Sad that much of beautiful Long Island is pretty much a dump.

Springfield Boulevard!!!

You didn't mention the infamous gay bar KISS

Thats accurate. Always a weedwhacker in the background

I remember going to Raynor's in the late '50s and early '60s as a young kid. We would have family get together picnics inside where there were picnic tables and a bar set up for refreshments,then go change into bathing suits in the dark changing cabana type rooms outside.There were the big slides and a floating dive platform about seventy or so feet from shore.The old wood of Raynor's had a very distinctive pleasing aroma inside that is something that just sticks in my mind as I remember the good times we had there.

Father Insane!

I grew up in the area till the 1970s. There were many interesting legends told about the lake.

Several teenagers died in Edgewood Hospital after it was closed....Teenagers would hang out and drink in the building, and start fooling around and a few fell down the elevator shaft where they died. NYS received a lot of complaints by the local community to tear the building down, which they eventually did....www.youtube.com/@surfer19541

Such an awesome video! Thank you

My grandmother worked at Edgewood and my mother and father worked at Pilgrim state. I love the old 1932 map. The Pt.Jeff train line extended all the way to wading river.

I used 2 live on motor parkway in early 70's. Used 2 go 2 the lake all the time. There used 2 b a German restaurant on the lake. A friend drowned in the lake. So that's really sad 4 me.

Now the sanitariums are closed and the former residents are living on the street. When you see a disheveled person wandering around pushing a supermarket cart with all their belongings these were the kind of people who used to live in these hospitals. Tell me what is worse: The conditions they had in these hospitals or living on the street?

I am doing a Movie about My life Living Steps away from The Lake. My Husband was killed there. My family owned the hotel. And the rentals on the Lake. The Burkes My family. Loud Laura of the Lake. Watch for my Movie of my life at the Lake

Clinton road is in Garden City. That tollhouse came from there.

All of the tollhouses were not the same looking. Also where you were on jericho turnpike was an underpass under jericho turnpike for motor parkway and that is not in garden city.

you can Try and explain away the drownings by talking about the depth of the lake, but it only hits that depth in a handful of spots WAY out where most people don't go. ALSO, the depth does Not account for the lop sided statistics in terms men and women drownings----157 male to 3 women

I was always led to believe that the northern state was the Vanderbilt motor Pkwy.

Vanderbilt parkway was not the first paved road in the U S. The advent of the bicycle brought the first paved roads.

our family would swim there in the 1960"s

Abuse there

The abuse at that hospital was tragic

Our presenter here is confused with his vocabulary, and he says things that don't make sense. He refers to the residents (patients) at Kings Park Hospital as criminals, but in the next breath he mentions they are here not by having committed any crime. Well, the definition of a criminal is one who has broken the law and this is guilty of a crime. He means well, however. I can tell that much. He just refers to these human beings wrongly.

The bridge Paul Revere warned the soldiers?

OMG! 2:45 seconds into this and I am dazed by the camera action! Hold yourself still! I can’t do this!

She was such a beautiful and tragic soul. I hope that she now has found peace.

This link will take you to a Chicago Tribune newspaper cartoon about the Pulaski versus Crawford controversy. www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-crawford-vs-pulaski-car/143730739/

Great video, Tim!

Great video, I wonder what Lake Ronkonkoma resident Maude Adams would've thought of the area now?

A favorite hangout for us in the 80s & 90s. Great nostalgia.. from the old bookstore to the old Hallock House, this area captivated our imaginations.

The Vanderbilt Museum is NOT in Northport but rather in Centerport.

Very informative video thank you. They used to have a museum in the park district building but decided to get rid of it to make it a rental room unfortunately

THIS GUY HAS NO IDEA ABOUT WHAT HE'S TAIKING ABOUT HE'S TAKEING OUT THE WRONG END I GREW UP IN LONG ISLAND THE END THAT YOU SIT ON . IT USED TO COUST 10 CENTS TO DRIVE ON THE SUTHEM STATE PARKWAY . IT A ASS H_________L

That bookstore lasted into the early 00's, i remember the building being there as late as 2004..

Very interesting topic. Can you share some of your sources you used? I am writing a research paper on this topic.

dude... actually a interesting video. but get a selfie stick so ur face isn't covering 90% of the screen.

So sorry to see the field and buildings in such disrepair. I used to fly C-119's out of here with the NYANG in the 60's. The Navy flew FJ Fury aircraft from the other side of the field. The old Ambrose lightship moored out in Jamaica Bay had an NDB that served as the final fix for the instrument approach. I currently fly out of Floyd Bennett Memorial field in the Adirondacks.

These were awesome

Thanks for this video I'm going to explore deeper in lake ronkonkoma because im there allot

Great video. Give up the comb over. It’s not working

Psychiatry is all but extinct, replaced by Social Workers. All Psychiatrists do is write prescriptions. Psychologists are still prevalent but cannot write prescriptions. The large hospitals closed down due to the warehousing of patients and subsequent lawsuits and state investigations of patient abuse and neglect. New ones are more supervised and much smaller.

Given all of debt Stanford White incurred, how did the family keep the home?

I had no idea so many of these locations connected to Nesbit, White & Thaw still existed. And Stanford White paid Evelyn’s mother for her trust. Thank you for the interesting video.

i lived in a drug rehab in kings park for like 9 months. it was fun living there. i always walked around for hours just looking at all the old buildings

is anyone around from the 50's on this page?...... m dad has so many stories of this

Enjoyed your video. As an FYI by the time I worked there, in the mid to late 60;s the Doctor’s prescribed medications like Thorazine. Back then we also still used straight jackets and some schizophrenic patients received shock therapy.

I was employed there as a Psychiatric Aide. Worked many buildings including 7, 21, 22, group 5, 93 (the large multi-story building at the beginning of your video), the storehouse, York Hall and others. Have many memories of those days from the mid to late 1960’s.

Correction: the closeup photo labeled Margherita (on the right) is actually Isabella Virga holding my Grandma Anna (Virga) Mangione. I have the photo in a locket and it is labeled by Anna as "me as a baby and my mother Isabella." I speculate that Margaret is on the left as a little girl (Anna's older sister). I am Donna (Fred is my husband)

It’s beautiful learning the history behind a great city. Thank you!

It seems that we are related on the Virga side of our families, and that we share the same great, great grandfather. I would love to see Part One of this video and would be happy to share the written history I've obtained, as well as photographs circa 1929.