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You are a saint, I'm not sure I could have watched those kids act like that without saying something to their parents! I remember I was on a dinner train when our kids were like 5 and 8 and the waiter was very complimentary about how our children behaved. I thought that odd, I mean we were on a $25/plate dinner train (back then that was the most I'd ever spent on a meal in my life), why wouldn't they be well-behaved? As the dinner progressed I saw what he was talking about. The people sitting down the dining car from us were sitting at a separate table from their children, and their children were not behaving well... why would they? Their parents were at another table from them?? :-). We are very happy to report that our children's children are also very well-behaved, or maybe they know Grandma and Grandpa won't be taking them anywhere if they aren't well-behaved.

That music in the background was absolutely horrible. Half of it sounded like what you would hear in the background of the price is right while they're talking about a showcase and half of it sounded like a horrible impression of Renaissance music.

Good documentary, but please slow down it's hard to keep up and take in the information

thank you for doing this my dad worked there for 35 years. he has dementia now and loved the video

When will part 2 be available? Thanks 😊

Interesting (would have been better w/o the music). As pleasant as your train experience was, you can't really replicate the past. The passengers would have been dressed very differently: men in suits; women in dresses. And there, unfortunately, would have been a lot of smoking! Staff would have been different too -- no waitresses, for one. The menu? Was it the same that was served in the 1940s? Tastes have changed, so probably not. You are right that standards of behavior have dropped. There really are NO standards. People look and act like brutes. About Moynihan: I think the hall is actually beautiful, as close to the old station as is possible. It does lack a focal point, however. There is no central indicator displaying train arrivals/departures. You enter the Hall and have no idea if your train is on time or what track it will be on. And there is the limited public seating which is hidden away to one side (obviously to discourage the homeless).

I worked at Greystone from 1986 to 1989 I was in accounts payable in the administration building. It was heartbreaking for me to see it come down. R.I.P Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, you were once beautiful, now you only exist in photographs.

The background music and the AI voice are irritating

I worked here for 6 years. Its a crime that they destroyed it. Patients were very well and content there. They were also well cared for, at least when I was there. The "new" Greystone had and has many problems. Just horrible.

Would have liked to see MUCH MORE of the interior of the car. Did you mention cost??

Letchworth Village was a horror story. My ex-wife worked as a nurse at Letchworth in the 1970s. I would occasionally take something to her at work. When I went to one of the cottages to meet her, the antiseptic/bodily excrement odors were distressing. You could hear the patients screaming and yelling in the buildings from the parking lot. The patients would attack staff members and had to be restrained for hours or days at a time. The pain and suffering at Letchworth experienced by the staff and the patients reminded me of something out of Dante's Inferno...

it´s sad the full consist is now gone

Nice video. People these days are reluctant to discipline their children in public as there are so many busybodies out there, they are helpless.

I think the Moynihan station is not a recreation of the old Penn Station but it certainly is better by far than what we have had recently. NYC is far far nicer than it was in the 70's and 80's.

We’re young ladies sent to this hospital to deliver newborns and adopt the baby for a price?

Its always great to see this series.

I'm glad I found this video. Super interesting and well put together! Keep up the good work :)

hey! Really nice video, im so glad I found it randomly through my recommendeds. I apprecuate your indepth research and live footage of how the buildings look today, which to me makes this a proper mini documentary. looking forward to more videos from you

This is so sad. I’m afraid it isn’t much better today 😭

Surprised this series didn't die! Legitimately the only series of it's kind on the site. Closest are UrBex channels who tend to be far more sensationalist. Also always very telling about the nations attitude towards mental illness when these facilities ask for more funding, and are vilified because of it. Shit still happens to this day with state run treatment centers.

My friends and I snuck into greystone in 2007 through a hole in the fence that had been put up around it and broken basement window. We wanted to make a video for our film class in HS. It was surreal being in there (and also dangerous…we were oblivious 17yos). We were there for hours and now seeing this timeline I guess we were in the administration building? There were a lot of patient rooms and old equipment, but seeing old wheel chairs and the paint peeling off the walls was wild to see in person. We came back years later after college and had no idea it had been torn down. It was so sad to see.

And the crazy part is that these buildings were already here. Just repurposed into their makings. Ever background story of these robber barons is always a lie.

Many people share this sentiment. Yet very few seem to actually have an answer on why things changed so much for the worse. If we want the good aspects of the recent past to return we have to ask the real questions and not be afraid to push the overton window. Great video!

It's so sad that the powers that be don't see the significance of such beautiful architecture that is our history as humans. It's like archeology almost. We'll never see amazing Victorian design like on these state hospitals ever again. Now we only have sterile, boring looking glass and steel structures. It's sad.

Amazing video, great research. Nicely done!

Multi-culturalism has ruined CIVILITY !!!

Update: they turned the old Greystone hospital into a big field which is used as the start and finish area of the cross-country course. I was just there for the Morris County Championship Meet.

What happened?

Nursing homes or long term care.facilities took.the place of the asylums.

I go to Marist and always wondered what the gothic architecture across the street was. Now I know! Thanks :) also there’s a shopping center there now called “Hudson heritage”. I wonder what the correlation is.

He was so happy smile on his face said he had a great time at the place ❤.

My boyfriend was at the 2006 fire, working the fire as a firemen. He is actually seen in that picture!

Glad that guy made his triumphant return.

Never thought i would live to see anyone with that much passion for Danvers institution. Thank you so much for the extensive history lesson.

Yo you stole the name of my podcast you hack, lawyer up!

I came looking for copper and have found gold.

Tartaria.... inherited building.

Interesting

👍

IM ready to watch tape two.

We have lost so much of the class and decency of the past. Obviously, there were the horrors of racism, but we could have class and decency without prejudice and racism. We do expect so little of ourselves.

I delivered pizza there everyday from 1985 to 1990 I been in every building there never the underground area just heard stories

I find these old institutions so interesting! I’ve got 3 old asylums in my city (U.K.) one of which is still open!

A year late but for the record. My voice didn't exist for 2 days after doing all these voices

I do cross country and I used to run there the idea that we were all running at an old mental hospital always wasn brought up

You never mentioned the most beautiful and meticulously restored station on the run since GCT is no longer on the route - Yonkers station by the same architects that designed the terminal. Kind of makes Hudson look like a barn by comparison. 🤠

Where is the Greystone cemetery ? I've tried to look for signs along the road, but can't locate it. Is the cemetery still maintained? I believe the hospital still takes patients somewhere on the property.

Sadly JC was not in this one.

Excellent, Excellent video! Truly! Your account of Danvers State Hospital is the most accurate one I've seen. Trivia: Two motion pictures were filmed there: "Home Before Dark" (1958) and "Session 9" (2001).

Audio sounds like a walkie talkie.