* DISCLAIMER: Anyone considering going into this building should think twice. There are multiple surveillance cameras/lights and several alarms throughout. Also, the police frequently use this property/building for dog training exercises. Trespassing charges can be mild to detrimental depending on your record. The last mention is, you never know who you you might stumble upon inside of these walls. What I'm trying to say is, this is dangerous and it should not be duplicated. An abandoned building in the middle of nowhere is much safer than one in the middle of a city. TRESPASSERS BEWARE.
They better not knowing what's going to happen it state police going in and out of there whenever. I personally wouldn't take that type of chance.. I was wondering how yall got away with that.
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow it just get weird, I mean....as if I was walking through there w/ u guts, n it seemed so Erie ya know ?? Meaning that I would never think, that Hosp. Would be like that....its really a freaky feeling, that's my OPINION. But u guts did an AWSOME JOB w/ walking through all that shit n talking about it n all. Its ALL HISTORY HUNNIE. Pretty neat though....💖💗💕💙
I live across from this building and it’s an eyesore looking at it from the outside and to see the inside is just as worst. This once was a nice looking building so sad to see it decaying away.
@@chrisrodas10 It's still standing. I don't think it will be tore down anytime soon.The front doors and windows are open and anyone can go inside and do a tour of it.
I know Rose, I def. Hear ya !! My 1 N only Son was born there bak in 1992 !!! Wow, that's 28 yrs. Ago n can't believe its been that long already, time does go by too dam fast !!!💋💖💗💗😇😍💕
I got stitches in my head there after my brake cable detached from the trigger bracket amd got caught in my front spokes of my bike. I love exploring abandoned and defunct buildings. This tour is amazing. Thank you for filming it.
I am a Trenton life long resident! I was born to in that hospital in 1967 3 of my 4 children were born there also! We really needed that hospital! The city really needs to turn it off into something viable for the community!
ALL THREE OF MY CHILDREN WERE BORN THERE, MY COUSINS WERE BORN THERE. I WAS THERE IN 2002 FOR AN OPERATION, AND I LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE HOSPITAL AT 444 RUTHERFORD AVENUE. THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL HOSPITAL, IT MAKES ME SAD TO SEE THIS VIDEO SMDH!!
Wow!!! I just came across this video today which is 1/28th/2022 and I'm so happy to get to see the hospital I was born in 54 years ago in 1967 Thank You.
In the elevator equipment room, that black pulley mechanism with the governors weights, is the descent speed monitor. If the cables holding the elevator car were to break, the speed of the monitor cable turning the pulley would quickly increase pass the trip point. Then the descent speed monitor would lockup and hold the monitor cable which is attached to a brake mechanism on the elevator car that grips the guide rails and stops the elevator car from falling any further.
Oh okay got you. That's cool. I've always heard elevator service is a great paying field. Unfortunately auto mechanics is not the best pay. Hoping to eventually switch my career one of these days it's the right thing comes along
Aww I had my daughter here, she was born Friday the 13th in may of 2011 one of the very last few to be born here . 😊 nice to see it again after 9 years .
Dad to see the building like this. I wish they would have done something with it. I was born here. Grew up around here with my mom working here and even volunteered here myself. 😔
I agree. It's incredible how much vandals and copper thieves have destroyed the building. I was also born there and always went there for all of my emergency needs.
So sad to see one of the most popular hospitals in its time in such a deplorable condition. My four children were born here and I was here as a patient for several other reasons during the earlier years as well as other members of my family. We always had excellent doctors and care while there. I could never understand why they abandoned the buildings, left them go to ruin and never put them to another use. I assume they preferred not to be in the city. Although St Francis and Helene Fuld Hospitals are still going strong as city hospitals. When they built Capital at Hopewell, a beautiful new hospital in a desirable area. that was the positive demise of Mercer (briefly owned by Capital). I guess demolition of the entire site will be the answer now.
I was born here, and both of my siblings were also. My best friend’s mother was an ER nurse here for years. My friends and I were candy stripers at Mercer in out early teens. We were tasked with collecting money from patients for the TVs and phones in their rooms. We filled up the patients pitchers with ice and water - they called it “passing ice.” All three of my boys were born here. Great memories.
Wow I lived in Trenton for two years my son was born there in 2012 after that I moved back to my city ATL and to see this beautiful building like this now it hurts I didn't even know that they closed 😢 thanks to the doctors who help me on my C-section and to bring my handsome son Joshua a 10 pound baby 💞
I was born there in 1955. What's happening here is so sad, that Trenton is not worth being called the capital. They have nothing anymore. West Trenton used to be the best neighborhood in Trenton, with its tree-lined streets, wide roads, and huge beautiful houses. There are no good neighborhoods in Trenton any more. What's going to happen to it?
Damn...my brother was born in this hospital 23 years ago. I remember being 5 years old going in there. So sad to see the residents of Trenton totally neglected.
I think that thing you were wondering about in the elevator room at 14:10 was a "free fall" emergency break for the elevator. Those bells were actually weights that would spin as the elevator moved, if they spun too fast they would spread further apart and engage a break.
Trenton has a lot of spots to visit the hospital the projects but they knock those places down. Bellevue Hospital I remember when that place was abandoned and now they are in Hopewell New Jersey. Are used to walk through the hospital 🏥
typical Trenton disgrace - when I moved here in 1991 this was an active hospital serving the needs of all the west ward residents - many who were (and are) very poor - Capital Health picked up and built a brand new state of the art hospital in Hopewell - not one politician intervened - they abandoned Trenton and its residents - this ws all about serving weathier patients - this will sit unaddressed for decades
In Princeton NJ when they stopped using the hospital both my kids were born in they immediately knocked it down and built new housing. The same does not happen in Trenton unfortunately.
Really enjoyed this. I was born at there with my two brothers and my sister. Was shocked to see the place abandoned a decade ago. Thanks for risking your a$$3$ to post this.
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow I got memories of being in those halls. It was a time when doctors were God & acted that way. My relatives are in Jersey. My cousin is Joe Zook of The Blues Deluxe. Long time ago I lived on Princeton Ave. Thank you again!
What a shame they abandoned it. Now it is in Hopewell it is expensive, they have to pay for the $400 million investment. My daughter was born at the old hospital in 1987 and my wife worked there with a part time job when the kids were young. She worked just across from the morgue. I remember I would meet her for lunch periodically in the employees cafeteria which was great. It was very reasonable price too. She got a recipe for hearty Italian soup they made which we still have sometimes. I think they built the new hospital so that it would be in an area that would attract more paying customers.
It's sad to see a place where so much took place just empty and abandoned, falling in to decay. People lived and died here, some worked their whole lives in this hospital....those rooms were once filled with light and life, people working and living. And now just empty. It was a place that mattered to countless people...just incredibly sad now that it's over.
My son was born there in 1997. I used the prenatal clinic and the pediatric clinic until he was 1 yr. old. Could not speak more highly of the care. Comparable with Doylestown Hospital where I had my daughter 7 yrs later. Sorry to see it this way.
Born there 59 years ago next month...taken there for recovery after I fell out of a moving vehicle with a concussion 6 years later..when they showed the children's center I recognized the murals on the walls of the planets from my stay there, it was the first thing I saw when I woke up from the concussion; the narrators remarked that it smelled like a school in there; funny because when I woke up I thought I was at school!
at the 14min/ 20 sec marker, that is an "OVER SPEED GOVERNOR" for the elevator, if it trips, it shuts down the drive motor( D.C.), and the motor/ generator set ( A.C. motor coupled to a D.C. generator)
Fuck yeah dude, just saw your other video on this place and I gotta check this one out too. I absolutely love this type of stuff. Would love to do an investigation on it if I were in NJ. Thanks again for sharing this, top notch work!
Geesh ! I walked past it when it was fully functional hospital hundreds if not thousands of times as a kid and as an adult. Not sure, but I think they also had some sorta training center adjacent to the main building at one time. P.S. that area has changed ALOT over the years...y'all kinda stand-out like snowballs in July ! Thanks for the post, it brought back a lot of memories !
The hospital where I was born,lived right across the street,11.23 is where he pointed to my old house on the rooftop.Hate to see this hospital like this.SMH
I live down the street. It was once a very beautiful structure its one of many throughout the city thats being left to decay. I guess they feel the residents don't care but we do. The hospital should have never left the city in the first place.
FWIW: The "heliport" was a section of the parking lot in front of the emergency room that was removed when the emergency room was renovated. I only saw it in use once in the time I worked as an EMT & Paramedic in the area (Over the last 30+ years that the hospital was open)
Interesting. I appreciate you filling me in on that. My mom was actually airlifted from that hospital to better equipped Hospital in Philadelphia many years ago when she had a brain aneurysm.
We lived in Morrisville Pa and my first 2 children were born at Mercer, i just didn’t like the bridge crossing over to Trenton lol So sad the hospital shut down and now looks like this 😢 my kids were born in 1984 and 1986 🎉
I remember going to the hospital when I was a kid, and several of my cousins were born there I was born in another hospital somewhere else but I remember going to visit my grandfather and a couple times I had to go to the hospital as well for myself. It’s a shame that they could not do anything better with this building, one of the greatest Gems of Trenton, now just an 8 story eyesore....Sad....Don’t get me wrong, the new capital Health in Hopewell it’s beautiful but they should have done something with this building after it closed.
I was born in St Vincent's Hospital. It was located in Greenwich Village but went into bankruptcy. Or so they say. Condos were surly worth more than the hospital. So they say.
The first entrance you entered (Dayton Building) was a state of the art Maternity wing (labor and delivery and nursery) back in the ‘60s & ‘70s. By the ‘80s it was just offices. You were also in the Mercer School of Nursing. I had an Aunt who graduated from there in 1939!
CHS abandoned the COT. There are no births in the City. To allow this to become an eyesore with no guarantee from the new owners to maintain the buildings is sad. Mercer was a part of a thriving community. CHS could've & should've done better for the residents of Trenton. 😥
I worked there in 2011 and 2012 after the hospital close I was considered maintenance let's just say it was an experience the 8th floor is rumored to be haunted buying a little boy just cool seeing it now after so many years
It was brought by this nursing home, they started to hire and never got it up and running. I'm not sure why they abandoned it. Capital Health would have definitely had it torn down, but they were no longer the owners. Don't worry though, it will be apartments sooner than later.
My family worked at this hospital, some in l&d, and I worked EMS bringing and taking patients in and out of here and across Trenton to other hospitals or we'll say "destinations". This brought back memories-- when you mentioned the helipad, when there's not a helipad a patient is brought by ambulance to the nearest field or clearing for a medivac. Some hospitals do use unused lots, but they're marked with lights and are actually made into a landing pad.
That object in the elevator motor room is a Woodward governor where it regulates speed as the balls fly outward with centrifugal force it applies either brakes or throttle. When the Steam locomotives ran to fast the governors would release dangerous steam pressure. That's where you get the term Balls to the walls! Full throttle reference in the steam locomotives.
I was born at this hospital in 1994 I lived right across the street from for it 17 yrs I miss this hospital I work at the new one in hopewell and I hate it
The mechanical bell looking thing is some sort of mechanical governor. In conjunction with an elevator its probably some sort of device to slow the descent of the elevator in the event of a failure of a cable .....just a guess
Elevators look like Dover Traflomatic III put on to older direct drive cable elevator motors. Would have been early 1980's top of the line tech. Probably the equivalent of $500k/car nowadays. Big money in used parts if any of that worked.
I was a new graduate nurse there from 1991 to 1994, met my husband there! so sad, it was a great place to help people. Thanks to changes in capitalism ---Entrepreneurialism and neo-liberal government the change to "for-profit"! When the profit stopped --- the private company abandoned the hospital. Trenton is left with a giant eyesore. This is a huge example of urban decay. ALSO, helicopter landed in the parking lot.
Yeah definitely not worth stealing anything from a place like that. I've heard from several people that the police will use this building and others for dog training exercises. That would be scary if you heard them coming through with the dogs
Ms. P2kscatz My older sister and my older sister's first child, my oldest niece, were both born there. My mom also worked there in maternity for 17 years, from 1993 to 2010.
Aw. I wish you guys had gone into the pharmacy. I know we left behind some stuff. Also we closed in 12 or 13. I got married in 11 and was still at mercer.
What portion of the building was the pharmacy in? I'm sure it's already been ransacked. Also do you happen to know what building the morgue was in? And yeah you're right about a closing after 2011. But 2011 is when they announced its closure so that's the date I figured id use
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow pharmacy was on the second floor of the old building, but ground level to the road behind the hospital. Off the top of my head, I can't remember where the morgue was. I want to say first floor or basement of the old section. Ill ask a coworker tomorrow who's been with capital for nearly 30 years, mostly as mercer.
I know. It's so sad and messed up. My older sister was also born here, as well as my older sister's first child, my oldest niece. My mom also worked here in maternity for 17 years, from 1993 until 2010.
* DISCLAIMER: Anyone considering going into this building should think twice. There are multiple surveillance cameras/lights and several alarms throughout. Also, the police frequently use this property/building for dog training exercises. Trespassing charges can be mild to detrimental depending on your record. The last mention is, you never know who you you might stumble upon inside of these walls. What I'm trying to say is, this is dangerous and it should not be duplicated. An abandoned building in the middle of nowhere is much safer than one in the middle of a city. TRESPASSERS BEWARE.
They better not knowing what's going to happen it state police going in and out of there whenever. I personally wouldn't take that type of chance.. I was wondering how yall got away with that.
Great but weird video though hun...too the both of u. Thanks for sharing !!! 💙💜❤💞💋🤗🤗
SUCRIBED TO U....LOL, Fucking pictures n shit on the walls too still....WTFFF !!!
@@deloressheaffer2325 Thanks! What did you find weird?
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow it just get weird, I mean....as if I was walking through there w/ u guts, n it seemed so Erie ya know ?? Meaning that I would never think, that Hosp. Would be like that....its really a freaky feeling, that's my OPINION. But u guts did an AWSOME JOB w/ walking through all that shit n talking about it n all. Its ALL HISTORY HUNNIE. Pretty neat though....💖💗💕💙
I live across from this building and it’s an eyesore looking at it from the outside and to see the inside is just as worst. This once was a nice looking building so sad to see it decaying away.
yea for sure
Is the hospital still up ?
Yea
NoNonsenseKnowHow good to know . I was born in that hospital in 93. A lot of memories there. Hope I can explore it before it’s gone
@@chrisrodas10 It's still standing. I don't think it will be tore down anytime soon.The front doors and windows are open and anyone can go inside and do a tour of it.
Seeing the NICU brought back so many memories from when my son was there 19 yrs ago. I saw the exact spot where his bassinet was ❤️
I gave birth to my son there 19 years ago he was also in the NICU 🥰🥰🥰thank you to those amazing nurses ❤ 💙 ♥ 💖 💕 💗 ❤ 💙
Being a mom is a choice not a super power, no one cares.
Awe..
I know Rose, I def. Hear ya !! My 1 N only Son was born there bak in 1992 !!! Wow, that's 28 yrs. Ago n can't believe its been that long already, time does go by too dam fast !!!💋💖💗💗😇😍💕
@@FloppyCripple wow, for some women it's not a choice, you are tfs.
Also, my Step-Dad sister use to work at this Hosp. For 42 yrs. N now she's RETIRED, n enjoying her life now. Good for her😘😍
My second son was born here, and I was an EMT in Trenton for a number of years.... sad to see a hospital close...
I got stitches in my head there after my brake cable detached from the trigger bracket amd got caught in my front spokes of my bike.
I love exploring abandoned and defunct buildings.
This tour is amazing. Thank you for filming it.
Jacob, same here... I love exploring!
So sad. I worked there for 10 yrs. Many good memories and dedicated professionals.
I am a Trenton life long resident! I was born to in that hospital in 1967 3 of my 4 children were born there also! We really needed that hospital! The city really needs to turn it off into something viable for the community!
No jobs, no tax dollars, no viability.
But you're right they could at least tear it down and make it a park or something
ALL THREE OF MY CHILDREN WERE BORN THERE, MY COUSINS WERE BORN THERE.
I WAS THERE IN 2002 FOR AN OPERATION, AND I LIVED ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE HOSPITAL AT 444 RUTHERFORD AVENUE.
THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL HOSPITAL, IT MAKES ME SAD TO SEE THIS VIDEO SMDH!!
Shoot crazy to see the hospital I was born in like this 🙌🏽
My thoughts exactly! wild
Right... Me to and I delivered a baby there 18 yrs ago
right
I want in. Cute Staffy puppy as my side kick
Wow! Me too 2/2/83
WOW.... I was born at Mercer Medical Center... Had doctors appointments at the small building across from it. Ohh The Memories!
Wow!!! I just came across this video today which is 1/28th/2022 and I'm so happy to get to see the hospital I was born in 54 years ago in 1967 Thank You.
Doctors in this Hospital saved My life in 1996 when I was 3 years old... I was born in that exact hospital in 93... #RebuildMercerHospital...
In the elevator equipment room, that black pulley mechanism with the governors weights, is the descent speed monitor. If the cables holding the elevator car were to break, the speed of the monitor cable turning the pulley would quickly increase pass the trip point. Then the descent speed monitor would lockup and hold the monitor cable which is attached to a brake mechanism on the elevator car that grips the guide rails and stops the elevator car from falling any further.
Interesting. Thanks man I was hoping somebody would jump on here and clarify what that mechanism was. Are you an elevator mechanic?
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow When I was a young man I used to service service elevators. Now 50-years layers later, I'm now just a retired Electrical Foreman
Oh okay got you. That's cool. I've always heard elevator service is a great paying field. Unfortunately auto mechanics is not the best pay. Hoping to eventually switch my career one of these days it's the right thing comes along
That is interesting Gratz
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I'm currently living in Trenton nj and watching this was awesome love is love brother stay. Safe
Glad you found it interesting and love back at ya! Thanks
Aww I had my daughter here, she was born Friday the 13th in may of 2011 one of the very last few to be born here . 😊 nice to see it again after 9 years .
Dad to see the building like this. I wish they would have done something with it. I was born here. Grew up around here with my mom working here and even volunteered here myself. 😔
I agree. It's incredible how much vandals and copper thieves have destroyed the building. I was also born there and always went there for all of my emergency needs.
Me three.
So sad to see one of the most popular hospitals in its time in such a deplorable condition. My four children were born here and I was here as a patient for several other reasons during the earlier years as well as other members of my family. We always had excellent doctors and care while there. I could never understand why they abandoned the buildings, left them go to ruin and never put them to another use. I assume they preferred not to be in the city. Although St Francis and Helene Fuld Hospitals are still going strong as city hospitals. When they built Capital at Hopewell, a beautiful new hospital in a desirable area. that was the positive demise of Mercer (briefly owned by Capital). I guess demolition of the entire site will be the answer now.
I was born here, and both of my siblings were also.
My best friend’s mother was an ER nurse here for years.
My friends and I were candy stripers at Mercer in out early teens. We were tasked with collecting money from patients for the TVs and phones in their rooms. We filled up the patients pitchers with ice and water - they called it “passing ice.”
All three of my boys were born here. Great memories.
I was born here in '85 when parts of it were allegedly pretty new. Crazy how much changes over time.
I gave birth to my eldest son in 1986 there!! Wow! Thanks for the tour
Thank you guys for showing this building and what goes on in the hood.
Wow I lived in Trenton for two years my son was born there in 2012 after that I moved back to my city ATL and to see this beautiful building like this now it hurts I didn't even know that they closed 😢 thanks to the doctors who help me on my C-section and to bring my handsome son Joshua a 10 pound baby 💞
I was born there in 1955. What's happening here is so sad, that Trenton is not worth being called the capital. They have nothing anymore. West Trenton used to be the best neighborhood in Trenton, with its tree-lined streets, wide roads, and huge beautiful houses. There are no good neighborhoods in Trenton any more. What's going to happen to it?
I was also born here. This is crazy to see what’s happened to it.
Yeah definitely wild. In such a short span of time as well
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow it really is. 28 years goes by quickly
Same!
What yr. Hun....my Son was born here in 1992 !! 💙💜❤💕
Me too
I worked in the “G” building on the second floor. It’s so sad to see our former “home” desecrated by time :(
Damn...my brother was born in this hospital 23 years ago. I remember being 5 years old going in there. So sad to see the residents of Trenton totally neglected.
I think that thing you were wondering about in the elevator room at 14:10 was a "free fall" emergency break for the elevator. Those bells were actually weights that would spin as the elevator moved, if they spun too fast they would spread further apart and engage a break.
Trenton has a lot of spots to visit the hospital the projects but they knock those places down. Bellevue Hospital I remember when that place was abandoned and now they are in Hopewell New Jersey. Are used to walk through the hospital 🏥
typical Trenton disgrace - when I moved here in 1991 this was an active hospital serving the needs of all the west ward residents - many who were (and are) very poor - Capital Health picked up and built a brand new state of the art hospital in Hopewell - not one politician intervened - they abandoned Trenton and its residents - this ws all about serving weathier patients - this will sit unaddressed for decades
100% accurate
If it makes you feel any better, capital health in hopewell sucks! My dad had surgery there and the nurses were horrible as was the service
Alot of memories of that place for sure. I was born there both my mom and mommom worked there as well. This was really cool to see
Same here dude both my aunts worked here for many years. Crazy theres nothing going on there its like a ghost part of town!
In Princeton NJ when they stopped using the hospital both my kids were born in they immediately knocked it down and built new housing. The same does not happen in Trenton unfortunately.
There's no real living wage jobs, Trenton doesn't make and it's reflective of many parts of the US unfortunately
And immediately built a new hospital that’s now PENN Medicine Princeton
Dnt know why this appeared in my RUclips recommendations, but I was born in this hospital 32 years ago
Awesome! Looks like RUclips is at least suggesting it to the right people
Its a SHAME man. I remember this Hosp. Big time. My 1 n only Son was born here bak in 1992💕💖💞💋 BEST DAY OF MY LIFE, EVERRR !!!
So many memories. I used to drive by it everyday for at least 10 years
@L F yep I drove my it
@L F yes you should learn how to do it 😆
Me too
Really enjoyed this. I was born at there with my two brothers and my sister. Was shocked to see the place abandoned a decade ago. Thanks for risking your a$$3$ to post this.
So sad to see this property abandoned. Both my Son & Daughter were born there, 31 & 29 years ago.
When you were on the roof I could see my house😊 I hope this property is redeveloped into something that really benefits our community.
Haha sweet! And yeah I hope so as well
Same I can see my house too
Well shit guys what's up
I was in nursing school here in 1967/68. Did not know this so thank you for your video.
That's cool. And no problem! Hopefully you got some entertainment out of it. thanks!
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow I got memories of being in those halls. It was a time when doctors were God & acted that way. My relatives are in Jersey. My cousin is Joe Zook of The Blues Deluxe. Long time ago I lived on Princeton Ave. Thank you again!
It's So Sad To See A Beautiful Hospital In Trenton Go To Waste. Good Memories.
So sad. I gave birth to my children there in 1986 and 1992. It was a good hospital.
What a shame they abandoned it. Now it is in Hopewell it is expensive, they have to pay for the $400 million investment. My daughter was born at the old hospital in 1987 and my wife worked there with a part time job when the kids were young. She worked just across from the morgue. I remember I would meet her for lunch periodically in the employees cafeteria which was great. It was very reasonable price too. She got a recipe for hearty Italian soup they made which we still have sometimes. I think they built the new hospital so that it would be in an area that would attract more paying customers.
It's sad to see a place where so much took place just empty and abandoned, falling in to decay. People lived and died here, some worked their whole lives in this hospital....those rooms were once filled with light and life, people working and living. And now just empty. It was a place that mattered to countless people...just incredibly sad now that it's over.
I was born there. Lol
This is one reason why when I leave this town of Trenton New Jersey I will never tell nobody else in another town where I come from...
Damn!
My son was born there in 1997. I used the prenatal clinic and the pediatric clinic until he was 1 yr. old. Could not speak more highly of the care. Comparable with Doylestown Hospital where I had my daughter 7 yrs later. Sorry to see it this way.
Wow! I was born here! 😩 I had no idea it was abandoned now. Sheesh
I was born there, too. Very sad to see!
Looks very modern for an abandoned building. And time went really fast looking back at 2011.
Born there 59 years ago next month...taken there for recovery after I fell out of a moving vehicle with a concussion 6 years later..when they showed the children's center I recognized the murals on the walls of the planets from my stay there, it was the first thing I saw when I woke up from the concussion; the narrators remarked that it smelled like a school in there; funny because when I woke up I thought I was at school!
Awesome always wanted to see the inside after it closed down thanks guys
Bruh I have become absolutely obsessed with ur channel!! Love it
10 years ago it was a working hospital crazy how the paint is coming of the walls within 10 years of closing up.
at the 14min/ 20 sec marker, that is an "OVER SPEED GOVERNOR" for the elevator, if it trips, it shuts down the drive motor( D.C.), and the motor/ generator set ( A.C. motor coupled to a D.C. generator)
Wow I was born in this hospital 🏥 and lived in West Trenton for 30 years its crazy to see it abandoned
My first son was born there in 1982. I remember it well.
yo man this is an amazing video. keep it up brother
My man! Thanks Greg.
Fuck yeah dude, just saw your other video on this place and I gotta check this one out too. I absolutely love this type of stuff. Would love to do an investigation on it if I were in NJ. Thanks again for sharing this, top notch work!
My sibling and I were born here and my nephew. To think of it my whole family was born in this hospital.
Geesh ! I walked past it when it was fully functional hospital hundreds if not thousands of times as a kid and as an adult. Not sure, but I think they also had some sorta training center adjacent to the main building at one time. P.S. that area has changed ALOT over the years...y'all kinda stand-out like snowballs in July ! Thanks for the post, it brought back a lot of memories !
Wow I have a deep connections to this place sad
Both of my children born here . I am a Trenton born girl as well.
Why authorities don't clean and lock up this place until better times?
The hospital where I was born,lived right across the street,11.23 is where he pointed to my old house on the rooftop.Hate to see this hospital like this.SMH
Thats awesome! and yea sucks to see. I went this hospital for everything until it closed
I live down the street. It was once a very beautiful structure its one of many throughout the city thats being left to decay. I guess they feel the residents don't care but we do. The hospital should have never left the city in the first place.
I was born in that hospital in 1973!
I always felt something creepy about that hospital my daughter was born there the last year they were open its been abandoned for so long now
FWIW: The "heliport" was a section of the parking lot in front of the emergency room that was removed when the emergency room was renovated. I only saw it in use once in the time I worked as an EMT & Paramedic in the area (Over the last 30+ years that the hospital was open)
Interesting. I appreciate you filling me in on that. My mom was actually airlifted from that hospital to better equipped Hospital in Philadelphia many years ago when she had a brain aneurysm.
These guys are crazy touching things without gloves, in a old hospital.
We washed our hands afterward
Ruff Ave...Salute! My first born son was born there...and I hung out with them HitSquad homies.
We lived in Morrisville Pa and my first 2 children were born at Mercer, i just didn’t like the bridge crossing over to Trenton lol So sad the hospital shut down and now looks like this 😢 my kids were born in 1984 and 1986 🎉
I remember going to the hospital when I was a kid, and several of my cousins were born there I was born in another hospital somewhere else but I remember going to visit my grandfather and a couple times I had to go to the hospital as well for myself. It’s a shame that they could not do anything better with this building, one of the greatest Gems of Trenton, now just an 8 story eyesore....Sad....Don’t get me wrong, the new capital Health in Hopewell it’s beautiful but they should have done something with this building after it closed.
I was born in St Vincent's Hospital. It was located in Greenwich Village but went into bankruptcy. Or so they say. Condos were surly worth more than the hospital. So they say.
The first entrance you entered (Dayton Building) was a state of the art Maternity wing (labor and delivery and nursery) back in the ‘60s & ‘70s. By the ‘80s it was just offices. You were also in the Mercer School of Nursing. I had an Aunt who graduated from there in 1939!
I was born in that hospital when it was Mercer Hospital!!!!
I had my first child at this hospital 💯
Your adventure is epic!
Need more of these
In only ten years, this place looks like hell.
Where’s your car dude? 😂lol.
Awesome views from on top.
Haha yeah that would have been something if it was getting broken into. I'd be yelling down at him
CHS abandoned the COT. There are no births in the City. To allow this to become an eyesore with no guarantee from the new owners to maintain the buildings is sad. Mercer was a part of a thriving community. CHS could've & should've done better for the residents of Trenton. 😥
Yea its a shame
That's the Catholics for ya!
I worked there in 2011 and 2012 after the hospital close I was considered maintenance let's just say it was an experience the 8th floor is rumored to be haunted buying a little boy just cool seeing it now after so many years
It was brought by this nursing home, they started to hire and never got it up and running. I'm not sure why they abandoned it. Capital Health would have definitely had it torn down, but they were no longer the owners. Don't worry though, it will be apartments sooner than later.
Love how you kicked the door into the children's center hahaha
Great video guys!
Thanks bud!
My family worked at this hospital, some in l&d, and I worked EMS bringing and taking patients in and out of here and across Trenton to other hospitals or we'll say "destinations". This brought back memories-- when you mentioned the helipad, when there's not a helipad a patient is brought by ambulance to the nearest field or clearing for a medivac. Some hospitals do use unused lots, but they're marked with lights and are actually made into a landing pad.
That object in the elevator motor room is a Woodward governor where it regulates speed as the balls fly outward with centrifugal force it applies either brakes or throttle. When the Steam locomotives ran to fast the governors would release dangerous steam pressure.
That's where you get the term Balls to the walls! Full throttle reference in the steam locomotives.
I was born at this hospital in 1994 I lived right across the street from for it 17 yrs I miss this hospital I work at the new one in hopewell and I hate it
The mechanical bell looking thing is some sort of mechanical governor. In conjunction with an elevator its probably some sort of device to slow the descent of the elevator in the event of a failure of a cable .....just a guess
My Dad died there....poor healthcare
I was born at this hospital.....
Elevators look like Dover Traflomatic III put on to older direct drive cable elevator motors. Would have been early 1980's top of the line tech. Probably the equivalent of $500k/car nowadays. Big money in used parts if any of that worked.
I was a new graduate nurse there from 1991 to 1994, met my husband there! so sad, it was a great place to help people. Thanks to changes in capitalism ---Entrepreneurialism and neo-liberal government the change to "for-profit"! When the profit stopped --- the private company abandoned the hospital. Trenton is left with a giant eyesore. This is a huge example of urban decay. ALSO, helicopter landed in the parking lot.
the bit of kit in the elevator room with a 9 on it is a governor to control the lift speed,
Yall lucky the cops didn't come in there. I seen a lot of people get locked up for coming out with copper😂😂
Yeah definitely not worth stealing anything from a place like that. I've heard from several people that the police will use this building and others for dog training exercises. That would be scary if you heard them coming through with the dogs
I was born in that hospital!!! Really missed that’s place!
Me as well. It was definitely a great Hospital! Very friendly staff and good doctors
Ms. P2kscatz My older sister and my older sister's first child, my oldest niece, were both born there. My mom also worked there in maternity for 17 years, from 1993 to 2010.
Aw. I wish you guys had gone into the pharmacy. I know we left behind some stuff.
Also we closed in 12 or 13. I got married in 11 and was still at mercer.
What portion of the building was the pharmacy in? I'm sure it's already been ransacked. Also do you happen to know what building the morgue was in? And yeah you're right about a closing after 2011. But 2011 is when they announced its closure so that's the date I figured id use
@@NoNonsenseKnowHow pharmacy was on the second floor of the old building, but ground level to the road behind the hospital. Off the top of my head, I can't remember where the morgue was. I want to say first floor or basement of the old section. Ill ask a coworker tomorrow who's been with capital for nearly 30 years, mostly as mercer.
cool. thx!
I have been gone for over 30 years can't imagine
oh my god! i was born here along with my two other siblings, we're triplets!
I was born in this hospital and my dad worked there as well
What is the age of the "old" part of this hospital? I was born in Trenton in July of 1948.
Crazy looking at the hospital I was born in🤦🏼♂️
I know. It's so sad and messed up. My older sister was also born here, as well as my older sister's first child, my oldest niece. My mom also worked here in maternity for 17 years, from 1993 until 2010.