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I was one of the project managers on the renovation of 13 of these smaller buildings on the northern side of NYIT in 2020-21, there was still one maintenance guy named Andrew that kept an eye on the property and let us inside these to look around. There’s a part of the basement in the oldest building (southernmost building just north of the courthouse) where the patients worked, I guess it was acceptable at the time to use them for labor. Most of the really old creepy shit is gone because of the college but that one building was pretty much untouched. Our project was on the “sunburst” buildings, a tuberculosis ward where every room had its own solarium, since sun exposure was pretty much the go-to treatment for tb in the 30s when they were built. There are miles of patient and steam tunnels connecting all the buildings and even extending off the property to other locations. Lots of impressive masonry you don’t see anymore. Edit-just finished the video and I appreciate that you found the creepy room with the made bed and open book on top, walking into that room was very weird
I absolutely LOVE seeing comments from people that have had something to do with the site these guys have explored, and adding some back story etc. Thanks for your comment!
the farm and work shops were for therapy and job training, it was all non-profit - what they made went back into the institution (my mother was an administrator in one of these in Canada, part of the wave that shut them all down).
I have wonderful photos of the buildings and grounds and have been asked by police to leave the property several times while I photographed at different times of day. I left NY 10 years ago and didn’t know the school has left the buildings. It was strange to see some being used while right beside them were breathtakingly abandoned and damaged buildings. I worked professionally with a lot of people who were here and at Pilgrim or Kings Park - many for most of their lives. I remember them all - heavily institutionalized but still responsive and so very interesting. I’d like to remember and give life to the name of dear Anna Plotsky while I’m here. She’s long gone but hers was the purest love I’ve ever known. Thanks for sharing your work.
I used to work there. Before most of the structures were demolished and housing was put up. The entire grounds, were connected with tunnels. It was massive, leading to every building. There was a larger hospital to the north east, the main building with severl floors, and an old firehouse. You could travel from building to building with out ever touching the surface streets. The Starburst building, whis still stands and has been converted to apartments, housed many padded rooms, wheelchairs and beds with restraining devices still connected to them. Creepy place.
Omg those B-roll tapes...I never take stuff, but that's as tempted as I'd ever be. Nice explore, dudes. Love seeing the working vintage tech. Nice to hear the place is being reused.
Same, I always follow the "leave only footprints, take only pictures" rule for exploration but some nice vintage tech like that, I dunno, I'd be REALLY tempted. Old working tech like that is becoming rarer and rarer, it'd be shame if it was all chucked in a dumpster when they start to refurbish these buildings.
10:00 or so... that looks like a distillation unit of some sort. The reason you'd have thermometers on the stock and in the vapor column is to make sure you have the right temperature for the product coming over. Yup, looked it up... Technovate fractional distillation column.
been urban exploring this place most of my childhood, so stoked you guys made it before its gone. (edit) its very wierd to see it on video all these years later, and we never thought to plug stuff in.....although my friends possibly did when they went in, not sure about that. gonna hit them up now
It drives me crazy to see all of that cool equipment just sit and rot in an abandoned facility. As I told Urban Exploring with Kappy: I understand the practical and legal reasons why urbexers might not want to be seen taking something from an abandoned building, but if nobody else wants this stuff, at least you'd be preserving it.
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I always enjoy your explores of these abandoned places. Been going through some rough times lately personally and your videos always provide some much needed escape and entertainment. Thanks and keep up the great work!
It could have been a stipulation upon permission with them going through the place. I'm sure they had to sign an agreement. There's lots of liability going into older buildings. I bet there's lots of asbestos.
@@SergeantExtremeI'm pretty certain that Urbexers are aware of that with their passion for documenting historic and old locations. Hell some are more prepared than others, like we see with The Proper People.
Its nice to see the building get repurposed, rather than torn down. Breaks my heart to see buildings, and the technology inside them go to waste. That old lab scope you guys found is worth its weight in gold. Might need a new set of capacitors at some point, but better than anything sold these days.
10:40 " JUST TURN IT OFF." ME AND MY ANXIETY WERE LIKE... YEAH PLZ and THX. Also I love you guys so much. You were what got me through 2017-2018 and even though that was a long time ago and I ended up getting into the garbage side of RUclips, I'll always be a supporter of your work. You are videographers & documentarians through and through.
I absolutely love the work y’all put into these videos and finding these places, I’ve always wanted to do that kind of thing, I wish you the best of luck
for reference, the 9"x9" tiles are almost always made with asbestos, the 12"x12" tiles typically don't. its undisturbed in the tile so its not harmful to your health at all, if asbestos is left alone (and in good condition) it poses no health risks to us! tho keep wearing your masks since you dont know if the decaying plaster/steam pipe insulation was made with asbestos fiber. better to be safe than sorry! always love your vids, only urbex people i watch, keep on just chillin ❤
Too often these cool, old, historic buildings are either torn down or just left to rot. I am glad to hear that these will be turned into housing. The need is so great anywhere you go.
A really nice documentary. I'm surprised that no one is pointing out that NYIT's Computer Graphics Lab was the birthplace of computer animation and 3D movies. To quote an article, Pixar was probably founded in 1979, "when George Lucas hired Ed Catmull away from NYIT to start the Lucasfilm Computer Division". Also available on the web are short snippets of a fully computer-animated film called "The Works" which was begun in 1979 but unfortunately never finished. Who knows what early works by now world-renowned artists are slumbering in the old storyboards and videotapes?
Well I just learned that the places I stayed in 2015 was an asylum. In 2015 I went to New York with the Baptist Disaster Relief to help with the hurricane sandy relief. We stayed in the empty buildings that the New York institute of technology was not using. When I saw the outside of the building I was like wait a minute…
Fun fact, one of the original Long Island Rail Road Central Islip State Hospital passenger stations is a diagonal “long curb” on the east side of Carlton Avenue back when the rails used to go through the property in that direction. It was a low level platform and it’s still easily made out to this day. You can even see it on Google earth. There are still running rails on the west side of Lowell Avenue also which were a part of the spur track that freight freight and coal to the power plant
The “broadcast cassettes” you were looking at are referred to as either three quarter (the width of the tape) or U-matic (referring to the shape of the tape path in the record/ playback machine). Hard (but not impossible) to find a deck to play back those tapes these days.
There still one at my workplace and it's used about once every 1-2 year(s). It makes an awful screeching noise when you fast forward/rewind a tape, always bringing the coworkers in nearby rooms to come check out wtf is going on 😆
@@recklessdecadence We don’t have any working ones (anymore) where I work, but I know the sound you’re talking about. They are not the quietest format ever. I used them in college, and in duplication in the mid nineties. They were big and cumbersome (the record deck was separate from the camera, making for a cumbersome portable setup). I’m not nostalgic for the videotape days at all.
I’m glad to see some of the real thing, rot & all. I recently read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which is even darker than the movie. I can see how people in the 60s were so mesmerized & shocked by the book & the mystery of these asylum campuses.
I know it's a rule that you don't take stuff from these abandon places. But when you find something cool like those tapes you might aswell take some that might be something neat. Otherwise it just sits there and rots
8:22 Those are U-Matic cassettes they were a popular commercial format used for video production. Completely incompatible with consumer video formats like VHS or Beta.
yeah i would have taken every single piece of film and those cassettes, everything that has ever been shot deserves to be preserved and archived. it would have been crazy to see the city shots from '88 new footage of the WTC is always a good thing
Those "Broadcast Cassettes" are a videotape format known as Umatic. Sony introduced it in 1971 (I have both 1st year model decks and a couple of newer ones) it was initially intended to be a consumer format, but it was less successful in that space than Sony's later Betamax format...However it became popular in the prosumer space...Colleges that taught film, companies that wanted to distribute training material on video instead of film, and TV stations used it...Though it initially was not quite good enough for broadcast grade...It basically broke into broadcast as it was the first practical portable tape format for ENG (Electronic News Gathering) and finally displaced film cameras from that role ending the news phrase "Film at 11" (if you've ever watched the comedy Kentucky Fried Movie which parodies TV they had that as a running gag). It was easier to excuse sync deviations and low quality for 0.5-15 minutes of serious news than in house made content. Umatic got better with time and was basically still in use until the end of analog TV (usually for commercials, promos and similar content). Umatic decks can still be found cheap used as can most analog video gear that isn't in a dumpster or museum. That oscilloscope is an HP from the era when HPs were bullet proof and essentially the world standard.
my dad worked at nyit when i was younger so i spent a lot of time on this campus. i remember the hallways were always so creepy and the elevators freaked me out. my dad never saw any ghosts or anything but some of his students and coworkers did. he also told me about the tunnels underneath the buildings and ive always wondered what they looked like.
The "Hospial Grounds" were mine and my friends playground inthe early 80's. My Nana was a pharmacist there and retired from C.I. I rememberseeing step by step lobotomy pictures and even helped with the creation of the museummy Nana started when no one else cared about thehistory any longer. I even got tosit in the shock treatment chair. The tunnels were everywhere. Used to use them for TB patients back in the day. I miss my hometown and the memories.
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God, please tell me you tried to reach out to different schools, museums, etc about that cache of storyboards, film, broadcast cassettes, etc. I know there's a whole thing about "leave no trace" when it comes to urban exploration; but that's how lost episodes, movies, albums, songs, etc get found. They're found in places like the one you were just exploring. Please tell me you reached out to people about it. The computers, oscilloscope, terminals, etc could be something that museums would trip over themselves to get their hands on. Like, this stuff has the potential to be *extremely* valuable. Some of the computer stuff is from the 1960s.
another nice video back in time where did the time go at the sight of this old equipment all those old computers and old monitors amezing great to see things from the past. just like old houses from the 70s and 80s I love it 👍❤💯
Had definite "Fallout" vibes at the beginning. Very creepy. Odd that they left the electricity on to the buildings. Love watching you guys. You find some of the most interesting and beautiful decaying buildings. Keep up the great work.
It always irritates me when there are rooms FULL of either really useful (maybe even recyclable) and really cool items that are just sitting there rotting. I agree, I'd love to see what is on those casettes, but someone somewhere decided it wasn't worth anything along with all of the other machinery and treasures hoarded on this estate. Another commenter also pointed out that land that sits abandoned like this (for non-toxic reasons) could be reestablished and turned into housing. I know that's easier said than done, but it all just seems like a waste. Intriguing to watch and walk through, but overall disappointing if that makes sense.
Stuff is often left behind b/c the folks assessing the "value" of the place are looking at the accounting books. Things have either depreciated to zero value, or have so little value left the cost of auctioning it off wouldn't offset the gain. It's all spreadsheets and number crunching at that point. So, stuff that's left behind, like all those bed frames that could get hosed off and used at a homeless shelter, are left behind. All that tech that old-school tech junkies on ebay would go ga-ga over is left behind. Ideally, they'd let everyone know when the place would be demolished, and let folks just rumage through for 2 wks picking the place clean of anything they wanted. (EG: let the copper scrappers go nuts). But, due to injury liability, they don't want to risk someone suing them if they got injured / killed on the property. So, it's all just left behind until it's bulldozed over. There may be a records management company that's called into make sure old records or such are disposed of (shredded) properly. But, other than that, most of it will just get demolished, and shipped to a dump as construction debris. Maybe some metal salvage will get pulled from it. I think modern construction tries to grind down old concrete / rock to create aggregate to build new building / roads from. But, most of that stuff will just get turned into rubble that goes to the dump due to how modern business plays out.
If this was in Sweden everything in that building would have gone straight to a recycling facility as Sweden is basically amongs the top 5 in the world on recycling. But America... Yeah that's a different story
I can just imagine moving into a newly renovated apartment there and then stumbling across this video and seeing the nasty creepyness that your living room used to be like.
if anybody is interested, at 9min it is a water still for making distilled water. Large cylinder is the still, small one to the right is water supply and the black hose top left on the big on is the outlet.
All these years of Adventures, I'm finally glad to see you guys wearing some filtered masks! Thanks for every awesome decaying place you guys of ever visit, as a subscriber since 2017❤
You should definitely go back and get all of those tapes and show em to RUclips before they get destroyed alongside the building. Nobody is going to be mad at you guys for taking em I see so many comments saying they agree.
With the scopes, turn down the brightness (or intensity) a little so it doesn't burn itself; then turn up the time control to get it to do something, if it can. If you still get nothing, try vertical and horizontal position controls. Some of them have wave generators you can play with. Some of them will be broken in interesting ways. Don't leave them plugged in. That one had fully working high voltage and so did that monitor! Monitor must be a "dum-terminal" if it had only keyboard and I/O network. Likely connected to a mainframe somewhere in that place. Looked like it was working perfectly, that's exactly what it should do!! I don't know what that fluid heating device was for. It will likely burn up if run without fluid running through it. If it were for film processing that would be cool.
Abandoned asylums are my favorite type of urban exploration. Abandoned Kirkbride style asylums are my favorite followed by pre-World War II asylums in general. I would love to see modern buildings in general emulate the beauty and craftmanship of the old Kirkbrides.
Just so you know that on a napco alarm system "?? OUT OF SYSTEM" just means that the keypad is not communicating with the panel or is not addressed properly, this means the alarm might still be active.
My grandpa use to work in a State Hospital in Michigan, almost all these types of “hospitals” had a tunnel system for mainly two reasons, one for staff to get to and from buildings quickly and two to move the bodies of the deceased without other residents seeing. I
HI guys, I worked in CIPC for a year and a half as a part time food service worker in High School. Buildings (Since razed) 182-183, right side, 4th ward. Oh the memories.
It's probably a service hatch to enter a maintenance space filled with electric conduits, pipes and valves to cut off flow to certain parts of the building. It may have had clasps with padlocks fitted that they torched off due to losing the keys
As someone who has lived in a old hospital its creepy as fuck, my grandparents ran a rehab and we took over the old grace hospital building here in tga NZ me and my mother and siblings moved in before everyone else and I saw movement on the sensors the first night may have been homeless people but by the time I got there with a bat there was no one, the gym we set up was in the scrub room and I feel like at least one person was always watching from operation rooms
Believe it or not, I actually have a working U-matic video cassette recorder. If they aren't ruined from all of the moisture and mildew, I am sure I could play back the tapes found at the beginning of this episode: 07:30.
Those are Beta Max tapes. I was an editor a long long time ago, A/B roll, before digital editing. You need a Beta player. Love y'all. Ya keep this older lady intrigued.
Yes, imagine that joint @ night, during the early 80’s, we would go to Byberry in Philly, in the nighttime , creepy as all get out, totally different during the day, of course! Good job man!
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I was one of the project managers on the renovation of 13 of these smaller buildings on the northern side of NYIT in 2020-21, there was still one maintenance guy named Andrew that kept an eye on the property and let us inside these to look around. There’s a part of the basement in the oldest building (southernmost building just north of the courthouse) where the patients worked, I guess it was acceptable at the time to use them for labor. Most of the really old creepy shit is gone because of the college but that one building was pretty much untouched. Our project was on the “sunburst” buildings, a tuberculosis ward where every room had its own solarium, since sun exposure was pretty much the go-to treatment for tb in the 30s when they were built. There are miles of patient and steam tunnels connecting all the buildings and even extending off the property to other locations. Lots of impressive masonry you don’t see anymore.
Edit-just finished the video and I appreciate that you found the creepy room with the made bed and open book on top, walking into that room was very weird
I absolutely LOVE seeing comments from people that have had something to do with the site these guys have explored, and adding some back story etc. Thanks for your comment!
It was an impressive place. I worked there back in 2004.
the farm and work shops were for therapy and job training, it was all non-profit - what they made went back into the institution (my mother was an administrator in one of these in Canada, part of the wave that shut them all down).
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I don't think the clients were used for cheap labour. It was considered therapeutic to help keep the mind occupied.
Being able to see some of this old tech turn on is absolutely incredible!
Totally agree! It’s very cool
They sure don't make them like that anymore
It was hopefully saved. Hope they reached out to donate it to a museum or something
@@MrCarGuy I'd bet it wasn't.
I’m surprised there’s this much undeveloped land on Long Island that hasn’t become housing.
This is apartments now.
Somebody didn't watch to the end LOL
Ahh transplants. Civilization ends at RT 112. There are still tons of golf courses and estates to build on.
At the end they mention it's being redeveloped into apartments.
Dude, you watch like all of the same channels that I watch, haha.
I have wonderful photos of the buildings and grounds and have been asked by police to leave the property several times while I photographed at different times of day. I left NY 10 years ago and didn’t know the school has left the buildings. It was strange to see some being used while right beside them were breathtakingly abandoned and damaged buildings. I worked professionally with a lot of people who were here and at Pilgrim or Kings Park - many for most of their lives. I remember them all - heavily institutionalized but still responsive and so very interesting. I’d like to remember and give life to the name of dear Anna Plotsky while I’m here. She’s long gone but hers was the purest love I’ve ever known. Thanks for sharing your work.
❤❤AnnaPlotsky🥂❤❤ She must've been wonderful 😍🙌
Sounds like praising of an addict...
I used to work there. Before most of the structures were demolished and housing was put up. The entire grounds, were connected with tunnels. It was massive, leading to every building. There was a larger hospital to the north east, the main building with severl floors, and an old firehouse. You could travel from building to building with out ever touching the surface streets. The Starburst building, whis still stands and has been converted to apartments, housed many padded rooms, wheelchairs and beds with restraining devices still connected to them. Creepy place.
Omg those B-roll tapes...I never take stuff, but that's as tempted as I'd ever be. Nice explore, dudes. Love seeing the working vintage tech. Nice to hear the place is being reused.
Same, I always follow the "leave only footprints, take only pictures" rule for exploration but some nice vintage tech like that, I dunno, I'd be REALLY tempted. Old working tech like that is becoming rarer and rarer, it'd be shame if it was all chucked in a dumpster when they start to refurbish these buildings.
Just take it! If not it will end up in the landfill. lol.
Those broadcast video tape boxes….just the boxes. haven’t seen them in years. Always thought they were the coolest looking boxes
@@JounLord1 you could argue that those tapes fall into the "pictures" category
@@JK061996 Rules lawyering huh? I can respect that.
Blows my mind that an abandoned place like that, in such clear state of decay, still has any power going to it.
Well on that climate and without heat pipes freezing...floods...etc...that's one main reason to keep the power on...
10:00 or so... that looks like a distillation unit of some sort. The reason you'd have thermometers on the stock and in the vapor column is to make sure you have the right temperature for the product coming over.
Yup, looked it up... Technovate fractional distillation column.
Thank you! I tried digging for info on it but couldn't find anything. The curiosity was killing me
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been urban exploring this place most of my childhood, so stoked you guys made it before its gone. (edit) its very wierd to see it on video all these years later, and we never thought to plug stuff in.....although my friends possibly did when they went in, not sure about that. gonna hit them up now
Is it still there or gone now
@@cursedfox4942 im not sure, i moved to florida in 2016. im assuming it hasnt been razed yet, but i dont know when they shot the video either.
@@savageoldman It was mentioned in the video what happened to the buildings?
@@fiverZ i dont recall them mentioning it in the video, but a quick google search says they are still standing as of now
@@savageoldman at the end of the video it was mentioned that the remaining buildings are being renovated to be converted into apartments.
It drives me crazy to see all of that cool equipment just sit and rot in an abandoned facility. As I told Urban Exploring with Kappy: I understand the practical and legal reasons why urbexers might not want to be seen taking something from an abandoned building, but if nobody else wants this stuff, at least you'd be preserving it.
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I always enjoy your explores of these abandoned places. Been going through some rough times lately personally and your videos always provide some much needed escape and entertainment. Thanks and keep up the great work!
The fact the power is still on is amazing! I’ve been to a old prison in similar condition to this. Also with power turned on in parts of the building
I’m so glad to see that you’re protecting yourselves with respirators. So many urban explorers don’t take precautions.
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Lol this is like one of the very few times they actually wear them
It could have been a stipulation upon permission with them going through the place. I'm sure they had to sign an agreement. There's lots of liability going into older buildings. I bet there's lots of asbestos.
@@peachyrider9987 They rarely get permission. 99% of their videos are straight up trespassing.
@@SergeantExtremeI'm pretty certain that Urbexers are aware of that with their passion for documenting historic and old locations. Hell some are more prepared than others, like we see with The Proper People.
Awesome to see you guys back on Long Island.
Its nice to see the building get repurposed, rather than torn down. Breaks my heart to see buildings, and the technology inside them go to waste. That old lab scope you guys found is worth its weight in gold. Might need a new set of capacitors at some point, but better than anything sold these days.
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so glad you found this great channel I have been watching for 6 years so happy when they upload.
Recently? You have A LOT of quality urbex content to binge ahead of you. 👍🏻
you guys are so cool i love the history you guys give us as well as the exploration
I agree. I can turn on my old walkman, but that's it 😄.
I’m so glad you guys wear respirators while exploring. ❤
The sheer Amount of walking to get around that size of buildings...endless corridors
..huge amount of power needed just unreal...
10:40 " JUST TURN IT OFF." ME AND MY ANXIETY WERE LIKE... YEAH PLZ and THX. Also I love you guys so much. You were what got me through 2017-2018 and even though that was a long time ago and I ended up getting into the garbage side of RUclips, I'll always be a supporter of your work. You are videographers & documentarians through and through.
I live right around the corner from this, some of the old buildings still stand and I always wondered what it looked like in there - thanks guys!
I love when you guys turn on old tech it makes me feel good, because after all this time they still work.
I absolutely love the work y’all put into these videos and finding these places, I’ve always wanted to do that kind of thing, I wish you the best of luck
for reference, the 9"x9" tiles are almost always made with asbestos, the 12"x12" tiles typically don't. its undisturbed in the tile so its not harmful to your health at all, if asbestos is left alone (and in good condition) it poses no health risks to us! tho keep wearing your masks since you dont know if the decaying plaster/steam pipe insulation was made with asbestos fiber. better to be safe than sorry! always love your vids, only urbex people i watch, keep on just chillin ❤
Too often these cool, old, historic buildings are either torn down or just left to rot. I am glad to hear that these will be turned into housing. The need is so great anywhere you go.
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It's not easy job to save building like this. And then you have still asbestos building.
Thank you for your videos, they help distract me in my dark days. < 3
2:22 Aww, cute tuxedo kitty. Reminds me of my family's cat growing up.
It's crazy to see such updated parts of the building sitting over the top of the decaying ones.
A really nice documentary. I'm surprised that no one is pointing out that NYIT's Computer Graphics Lab was the birthplace of computer animation and 3D movies. To quote an article, Pixar was probably founded in 1979, "when George Lucas hired Ed Catmull away from NYIT to start the Lucasfilm Computer Division". Also available on the web are short snippets of a fully computer-animated film called "The Works" which was begun in 1979 but unfortunately never finished. Who knows what early works by now world-renowned artists are slumbering in the old storyboards and videotapes?
That stuff shouldn't be there like that, but this happens. Someone should... you know...
I’m going to miss this place so much
Well I just learned that the places I stayed in 2015 was an asylum. In 2015 I went to New York with the Baptist Disaster Relief to help with the hurricane sandy relief. We stayed in the empty buildings that the New York institute of technology was not using. When I saw the outside of the building I was like wait a minute…
Someone should really save and archive all of those films. Imagine what could be hidden in there
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Those flashing lights at 17:20-17:28 are very much like the flickering lights of some kinda Hollywood Horror Blockbuster movie almost.
It was the ghosts of the old patients talking, but as usual no one listens. 💀
@@kimatlastlooks2915 nice one. Eeeeeeeeeeeeexcellent analogy, Kim at Last Locks!
Fun fact, one of the original Long Island Rail Road Central Islip State Hospital passenger stations is a diagonal “long curb” on the east side of Carlton Avenue back when the rails used to go through the property in that direction. It was a low level platform and it’s still easily made out to this day. You can even see it on Google earth. There are still running rails on the west side of Lowell Avenue also which were a part of the spur track that freight freight and coal to the power plant
The “broadcast cassettes” you were looking at are referred to as either three quarter (the width of the tape) or U-matic (referring to the shape of the tape path in the record/ playback machine). Hard (but not impossible) to find a deck to play back those tapes these days.
There still one at my workplace and it's used about once every 1-2 year(s). It makes an awful screeching noise when you fast forward/rewind a tape, always bringing the coworkers in nearby rooms to come check out wtf is going on 😆
@@recklessdecadence We don’t have any working ones (anymore) where I work, but I know the sound you’re talking about. They are not the quietest format ever. I used them in college, and in duplication in the mid nineties. They were big and cumbersome (the record deck was separate from the camera, making for a cumbersome portable setup). I’m not nostalgic for the videotape days at all.
I’m glad to see some of the real thing, rot & all. I recently read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which is even darker than the movie. I can see how people in the 60s were so mesmerized & shocked by the book & the mystery of these asylum campuses.
I know it's a rule that you don't take stuff from these abandon places. But when you find something cool like those tapes you might aswell take some that might be something neat. Otherwise it just sits there and rots
8:22 Those are U-Matic cassettes they were a popular commercial format used for video production.
Completely incompatible with consumer video formats like VHS or Beta.
yeah i would have taken every single piece of film and those cassettes, everything that has ever been shot deserves to be preserved and archived. it would have been crazy to see the city shots from '88 new footage of the WTC is always a good thing
Those "Broadcast Cassettes" are a videotape format known as Umatic. Sony introduced it in 1971 (I have both 1st year model decks and a couple of newer ones) it was initially intended to be a consumer format, but it was less successful in that space than Sony's later Betamax format...However it became popular in the prosumer space...Colleges that taught film, companies that wanted to distribute training material on video instead of film, and TV stations used it...Though it initially was not quite good enough for broadcast grade...It basically broke into broadcast as it was the first practical portable tape format for ENG (Electronic News Gathering) and finally displaced film cameras from that role ending the news phrase "Film at 11" (if you've ever watched the comedy Kentucky Fried Movie which parodies TV they had that as a running gag). It was easier to excuse sync deviations and low quality for 0.5-15 minutes of serious news than in house made content. Umatic got better with time and was basically still in use until the end of analog TV (usually for commercials, promos and similar content). Umatic decks can still be found cheap used as can most analog video gear that isn't in a dumpster or museum.
That oscilloscope is an HP from the era when HPs were bullet proof and essentially the world standard.
It is crazy how much IT stuff is there. If you are enthusiastic about server stuff, it really hurts to see how that stuff gets wasted
Yes, id get those hdds and sell them (not reallu)
my dad worked at nyit when i was younger so i spent a lot of time on this campus. i remember the hallways were always so creepy and the elevators freaked me out. my dad never saw any ghosts or anything but some of his students and coworkers did. he also told me about the tunnels underneath the buildings and ive always wondered what they looked like.
Really like the exploration of asylums. They have that uncanny vibe and you are not always ready what to expect.
The "Hospial Grounds" were mine and my friends playground inthe early 80's. My Nana was a pharmacist there and retired from C.I. I rememberseeing step by step lobotomy pictures and even helped with the creation of the museummy Nana started when no one else cared about thehistory any longer. I even got tosit in the shock treatment chair. The tunnels were everywhere. Used to use them for TB patients back in the day. I miss my hometown and the memories.
I didn’t get the notification of when y’all posted. Glad i checked back on your channel manually. Love your content and been followed for so many years!
God, please tell me you tried to reach out to different schools, museums, etc about that cache of storyboards, film, broadcast cassettes, etc. I know there's a whole thing about "leave no trace" when it comes to urban exploration; but that's how lost episodes, movies, albums, songs, etc get found. They're found in places like the one you were just exploring. Please tell me you reached out to people about it. The computers, oscilloscope, terminals, etc could be something that museums would trip over themselves to get their hands on. Like, this stuff has the potential to be *extremely* valuable. Some of the computer stuff is from the 1960s.
"shall we plug this in?" you guys are crazy lmaoo i love it
another nice video back in time where did the time go at the sight of this old equipment all those old computers and old monitors amezing great to see things from the past.
just like old houses from the 70s and 80s I love it 👍❤💯
Had definite "Fallout" vibes at the beginning. Very creepy. Odd that they left the electricity on to the buildings. Love watching you guys. You find some of the most interesting and beautiful decaying buildings. Keep up the great work.
The sound of you guys's footsteps in any abandoned building is definitely asmr ♥
It always irritates me when there are rooms FULL of either really useful (maybe even recyclable) and really cool items that are just sitting there rotting. I agree, I'd love to see what is on those casettes, but someone somewhere decided it wasn't worth anything along with all of the other machinery and treasures hoarded on this estate. Another commenter also pointed out that land that sits abandoned like this (for non-toxic reasons) could be reestablished and turned into housing. I know that's easier said than done, but it all just seems like a waste. Intriguing to watch and walk through, but overall disappointing if that makes sense.
Stuff is often left behind b/c the folks assessing the "value" of the place are looking at the accounting books. Things have either depreciated to zero value, or have so little value left the cost of auctioning it off wouldn't offset the gain. It's all spreadsheets and number crunching at that point. So, stuff that's left behind, like all those bed frames that could get hosed off and used at a homeless shelter, are left behind. All that tech that old-school tech junkies on ebay would go ga-ga over is left behind. Ideally, they'd let everyone know when the place would be demolished, and let folks just rumage through for 2 wks picking the place clean of anything they wanted. (EG: let the copper scrappers go nuts). But, due to injury liability, they don't want to risk someone suing them if they got injured / killed on the property. So, it's all just left behind until it's bulldozed over. There may be a records management company that's called into make sure old records or such are disposed of (shredded) properly. But, other than that, most of it will just get demolished, and shipped to a dump as construction debris. Maybe some metal salvage will get pulled from it. I think modern construction tries to grind down old concrete / rock to create aggregate to build new building / roads from. But, most of that stuff will just get turned into rubble that goes to the dump due to how modern business plays out.
If this was in Sweden everything in that building would have gone straight to a recycling facility as Sweden is basically amongs the top 5 in the world on recycling. But America... Yeah that's a different story
Noticed that the storyboards were for a Beatles themed film! Pretty wacky... Great video!!
I'd live to once go with you guys and check out such electronic devices in those abandoned buildings with power!
I’m so glad you guys are wearing your respirators. Good on you for being safe. ❤
Image you turned on the screen @13:02 and the cursor shows: SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?
Crazy how some parts of the buildings are literally falling but the power is still working like nothing happened
Someone's film concept may have just gotten its widest audience ever.
I can just imagine moving into a newly renovated apartment there and then stumbling across this video and seeing the nasty creepyness that your living room used to be like.
if anybody is interested, at 9min it is a water still for making distilled water. Large cylinder is the still, small one to the right is water supply and the black hose top left on the big on is the outlet.
I'd love to see the transformation when development has completed ❤
This one was definitely spectacular! The soundtrack was equally spectacular as well
This is the most Fallout exploration you've done to date. Love it!
pretty cool that you guys explored where i did most likely around the same time and in my home town.
I can absolutely see working on a farm to be helpful for the right illnesses.
I’m still amazed with all the stuff left behind
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All these years of Adventures, I'm finally glad to see you guys wearing some filtered masks! Thanks for every awesome decaying place you guys of ever visit, as a subscriber since 2017❤
7:50 Sony U-Matic tapes! U-Matic was an old broadcast video tape format, it used 3/4-inch tape and it was used well into the 1990s.
You should definitely go back and get all of those tapes and show em to RUclips before they get destroyed alongside the building. Nobody is going to be mad at you guys for taking em I see so many comments saying they agree.
Very cool my mum worker here from 07 - 09. There was actually a canteen on the ground floor
Thank you for saying ON long island!!!!
those film reels got me so sad, thres probably somthing rlly cool on them, and were never gonna see it
crazy how much it's decayed only being abandoned in 2017!! looks like it's been abandoned for decades
Storyboard is pretty neat. I wish I could draw like that. Nuts that the light are still working in places.
With the scopes, turn down the brightness (or intensity) a little so it doesn't burn itself; then turn up the time control to get it to do something, if it can. If you still get nothing, try vertical and horizontal position controls. Some of them have wave generators you can play with. Some of them will be broken in interesting ways. Don't leave them plugged in.
That one had fully working high voltage and so did that monitor! Monitor must be a "dum-terminal" if it had only keyboard and I/O network. Likely connected to a mainframe somewhere in that place. Looked like it was working perfectly, that's exactly what it should do!! I don't know what that fluid heating device was for. It will likely burn up if run without fluid running through it. If it were for film processing that would be cool.
I’ve religiously watched every single of y’all’s videos and I love them !!
Abandoned asylums are my favorite type of urban exploration.
Abandoned Kirkbride style asylums are my favorite followed by pre-World War II asylums in general.
I would love to see modern buildings in general emulate the beauty and craftmanship of the old Kirkbrides.
Just so you know that on a napco alarm system "?? OUT OF SYSTEM" just means that the keypad is not communicating with the panel or is not addressed properly, this means the alarm might still be active.
My grandpa use to work in a State Hospital in Michigan, almost all these types of “hospitals” had a tunnel system for mainly two reasons, one for staff to get to and from buildings quickly and two to move the bodies of the deceased without other residents seeing. I
All those HDDS are so awesome! Imagine finding free terabytes of storage!!
HI guys, I worked in CIPC for a year and a half as a part time food service worker in High School. Buildings (Since razed) 182-183, right side, 4th ward. Oh the memories.
So totally coooool that some of the old pieces of electric devices still work. I love watching your videos!
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Those little doors along the floorboards were for fire hoses in case there was a fire they could plug into those and extinguish the flame.
I would have figured access panels
Man, do I love all those old fluorescent fixtures and tech.
I think that may be my favorite by ya'll. That place is so cool and I'm glad its getting a re-use rather than being torn down.
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"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories" back to basics lads.
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At least they were reused and repurposed. I LOVE to see this. I rather see this then demolition and another plain white box be built.
Love these videos!
14:24 I busted out laughing, why does this tiny door exist, and why's it welded shut? Tiny zombies?!
It's probably a service hatch to enter a maintenance space filled with electric conduits, pipes and valves to cut off flow to certain parts of the building. It may have had clasps with padlocks fitted that they torched off due to losing the keys
@@CATASTEROID934 good point or a crawl space ...keeping the patients or students out of there...when the original function no longer needed...
Another masterpiece from y’all ❤️🔥
I live like 10 mins from here! So cool
To see you guys here on Long Island
As someone who has lived in a old hospital its creepy as fuck, my grandparents ran a rehab and we took over the old grace hospital building here in tga NZ me and my mother and siblings moved in before everyone else and I saw movement on the sensors the first night may have been homeless people but by the time I got there with a bat there was no one, the gym we set up was in the scrub room and I feel like at least one person was always watching from operation rooms
Believe it or not, I actually have a working U-matic video cassette recorder. If they aren't ruined from all of the moisture and mildew, I am sure I could play back the tapes found at the beginning of this episode: 07:30.
Those are Beta Max tapes. I was an editor a long long time ago, A/B roll, before digital editing. You need a Beta player. Love y'all. Ya keep this older lady intrigued.
Yes, imagine that joint @ night, during the early 80’s, we would go to Byberry in Philly, in the nighttime , creepy as all get out, totally different during the day, of course! Good job man!
i was so waiting for another video just started watching it
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I love exploring abandoned buildings,it's a kinda a hobby for me, wish i could meet you guys in person and come with you
aaaww kitty !! you guys are automatically even cooler than before, you love fuzzy-babies !
The decaying remains of a previous social construct... always interesting.