This gave me chills. 55 years ago, I lived in Kings Park. I attended San Remo Elementary School, just down the street from the campus. The facility has seen multiple iterations over many decades. The building closest to our school housed disturbed/criminal juveniles. I had to walk past every day, to taunts and cries out the windows. Terrifying. Now I'm in peaceful, Perryville MD! Great work, Ian. Creepy serendipity, too.
Oh , my sister In law worked there . Everyone knew someone who worked there . My friends dad was a patient there , dementia. That place had it all . They were supposed to re open a theater there .
There is something special about this place. I’ve been taking my kids here for the last 15 years. So many memories. The buildings still stand because the construction is asbestosis. The feeling being there is indescribable as he said. We love it
when you’re a teenager it feels like a jungle gym. we spent hours in those buildings. super dangerous though since some floors would have literal holes in them where you can see down 15+ floors
The indescribable feelings are the energy pathways of the tens of thousands of lives who suffered institutional confinement, locked away from the world in the throes of psychosis, severe developmental disabilities and abandonment by their families. I remember riding my bicycle through the grounds and past building 93 in the early fall and autumn of 1977. On many occasions in the early evening, building 93 emitted the murmur of what seemed like hundreds of patients. It was eerie and disturbing then and now looking back even supernatural.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center had its even own railroad spur (connecting to the Port Jefferson railroad line of the Long Island Railroad, east of the current Kings Park railroad station), and probably had its own railroad station at the end of that spur, somewhere on the grounds of the psychiatric center. The railroad tracks across Route 25A were removed only a decade or two ago.
Eventually, the Kings County Asylum began to suffer from overcrowding. In 1895, control of the asylum passed into state hands and was subsequently renamed the "Kings Park State Hospital". The surrounding community known as "St. Johnland" adopted the name "Kings Park". and this is how the town was named Kings Park. My house is on the walking trail of this park, its a beautiful park and thanks for the making of this video.
I grew up in the next town over. I've been in that building more times than I can count. Some times real late at night when it was creepy as shit. The history of that place is really interesting
Please, try. Back in the early fall and autumn of 1977, I would cruise my brand new Motobecane Grand Touring Tour de France 10 speed through the grounds and past building 93. I remember that building emitting the loud murmur of what seemed like hundreds of patients in the early evening. It's a haunting memory that seems more like a dream all of these decades later.
I actually live near this place. My younger brother went here with his friends to explore the building. After a terrifying journey to get to the roof, they were greeted by some guys with a radio and a portable grill cooking hotdogs. I swear on my life I am not kidding.
Oh man. We used to deliver pizzas to the long term building before it closed. The admissions building used to have boxes and boxes of documentation in the basement regarding admitted individuals and what they had on their person at the time of entering the facility. Had a friend who's property backed KPPC - a short hike through the woods and we were in the housing development. Most of it was picked over by that time (roughly 2005-07) This was a nice stroll down memory lane.
👋 Ahh the memories. I was employed as M.H.T.A bldg.93 in 1984 as a 19 yo 😂 Worked in bldg 41 and left in 1989. Place is historical and should be preserved. Would make great museum.
Great video. You need to visit Old Main in Utica, NY. One of the oldest psychiatric hospitals and campuses in the country. Looks very much like this but it’s literally in the middle of a city neighborhood. There’s a couple buildings still in use but not the huge ones. It’s creepy walking around. I work at the main hospital that’s still open now.
I live 15 mins from KPPC and I go here all the time. If you go in the back deep behind one of the buildings by the road, there is actually a little abandoned village where I'm assuming doctors on call would stay. There's even an empty swimming pool and everything. Some of the houses look like they've been burned down as well which is weird. Very fascinating. These buildings also used to be a lot more accessible before it got turned into a public park.
I remember when we used to sneak in from the waters edge and access points to the buildings were hard to find but existed. People were still scared to even walk through the property than bc patients stayed living here bc they had nowhere to go. These days families walk through constantly. Now ppl just drive in and walk into the buildings. Access is everywhere for buildings now. When I went in i found the smaller buildings to be more interesting. The larger were fun to look at though. Graffiti was minimal and now it takes up 99 percent of the walls. Paperwork covered the floors back than and was quite interesting to read. The living quarters still had furniture, equipment still lingered, basements still held property, mazes were not blocked, cafeterias, industrial refrigerators everywhere morgues and cemeteries. This was a Massive industry in itself it's just huge. Demolition is what is will happen. It has already been approved.
So the building that houses criminally insane on campus was Wisteria Building or Wisteria Ward. Building 7 was the medical/hospital building of the campus which also houses the morgue with 2 rear connected buildings and the cemetery behind those buildings.
Spent my whole childhood going in and out of these buildings. we used to lay down in the morgue trays in building 7. you actually pass the morgue at 32:43. Those bars at 32:51 is how we’d get in. basically someone before us (we didn’t want to do any damage we were good kids) had removed one of those bars and you’d be able to climb in. good times :)
34:45 yeah they demolished it along with the smoke stacks :( there’s actually an odd amount of videos of the smokestack demolition on youtube for such a niche thing
It was an entire community, with housing and industry along with treatment. Many patients were there voluntarily, on an out patient basis, and worked or attended schools in the neighboring community. Pilgrim State is a similarly abandoned campus a few miles southwest of
Through a lot of your videos I’m able to relive memories I thought were lost. From kppc to south of the border and so on. I love your style in creating videos. I can tell you’re on the way up and I just in the bottom floor, can’t wait to see where you’ll go ¨̮
Some of the buildings are still in use. Towards 25A, there are a couple of half way houses and drug treatment centers. There are some equipment buildings that are also still in use, and even a fire department. Another reason that the area is not being built up is because of all the bodies that are buried there. There are several potter's fields around the campus. As a matter of fact, when the High School was built, a Potter's field was discovered and several bodies were exhumed but not all of them. Many of the records of the whereabouts of these Potters fields were lost in time. Next time you go, shoot me a message and I'll get you inside. I've been all through the area, inside and out, and underground too.
The art drawn by the patient is in the basement of building 93. The paintings were done by a famous cartoonist named Percy Crosby whose comic strip character Skippy was very popular from the mid nineteen twenties thru the mid forties. The vandals destroyed his work. Sad but true.
NYS Park Police and even local police patrol this area. Not as routinely as you would like. I went there on Halloween coincidently enough during the day time. No one is breaking into these buildings especially during the day. People walk around the area, site see and exercise. Its definitely good for that. The Nissequoge state park and ocean is adjacent to the Psych Center. So the view of the lake and rivers are very nice. When they built this place they new what they were doing as far as location was concerned. Its pretty interesting to check out plus its close to Sunken Meadow State Park.
I live here in Long Island, New York. I live about 15 minutes from there great coverage. They have tunnels that connect the buildings underneath that is how they used to transport when I went there you were able to go into the morgue and they had little sliding things where you can get into the next room that was the only way
I don't know why NY State closed this institution down. The State also closed down Pilgrim State and Willow Brook Psych. Hospital. The mentally ill people are running around NYC causing Havoc. Walk around Manhattan and you will see at least one deranged person on every block. I hope one day the State will reconsider and reopen these Psych. Hospitals.
Cool video. I grew up in the shadows of these buildings. My friends and I spent some time inside them and the tunnel system. There really should be a professional and detailed documentary done by the state. ... I meet a lot of people in my line of work. Every so often I meet someone who worked there. I ask so many questions. Side note. during construction My grandfather drove a truck back and forth from Brooklyn delivering materials. Sadly he passed before I could ask him any questions.
They have these crazy wards all over Suffolk county. They recently tore down the 1 in central islip and build luxury townhouses, a gated community . In the deer park I think that - 1 is still operational just not at full capacity. This ain’t nothing new in Long Island
Hi, I am a local amateur explorer and am also a huge lover of the outdoors. In this video you commented that you see lots of locals “breaking” into these buildings. Well, just so you know I was one of those individuals there with my family the day you were filming and we were not breaking into anything. We were doing exactly what you were doing, which is exploring. And another thing we are locals we did not come here from some other place just to see this and put it on the Internet so now other people could come and see this place. What is funny is that you’re not allowed to film anything in the facility because we were confronted by the state police that are still on site who informed us of this ( even though no one was filming or even had a phone in hand).I also go there to collect praying mantis eggs to put in my gardens to keep away predator bugs so I know that when me and my people go explore, we are sure to be respectful of the facility.
You should explore Crownsville Hospital complex in Anne Arundel County, MD. Alot of interesting old buildings . Some look like they have been repurposed but a lot seem to be abandoned.
Bldg 7 was actually taller than 93 before they demolished the cube. It feels creepy because several people have fallen to their demise from the top. One of the reasons it was demolished. Also right where you're walking a large single story building used to be attached to building 7. Had a pool and a bowling alley. Was probably the largest building square in square footage. The grounds are now split in half. You should check out the other side. The medical building and building 44 aka The Quad
Thank you for this video. Recently moved to Florida but for decades I visited this place weekly living on Long Island. You are correct about the building behind 93 being a “support” building, as this was the Laundry building for the complex. Awesome video, Ian. 🎸
All of those buildings contain large amounts of asbestos. Before they can be demolished, it would all need to be removed. Its extremely expensive and is deemed not cost effective.
I was there with my wife on the weekend before hurricane Sandy, exploring. The massive amount of mindless vandalism done to those buildings speaks loudly. We gained entrance to the warehouse with thousands and thousands of medication cups strewn all over the floors. It was not possible to gain entrance to any of the other buildings as it required physical prowess that my wife wasn't up to. The entire grounds reverberate with the energy pathways of tens of thousands of tortured souls whose pain yet still lingers. I will not be surprised to know that many trapped souls remain, not knowing they're dead still believing they are patients. In the early fall and autumn of 1977, I would cruise my Motobecane 10-speed through the grounds past building 93. It was early in the evening and still warm. The building emitted the murmuring hum of hundreds of patients inside like a hive. It was eerie then and looking back nearly 50 years later, supernatural.
Wasn't there a building that was known as the power plant for KPPC? Provided electricity for the complex. A building known as the bakery? Another building that disposed of garbage by burning it? Too bad you didn't find the cemetery area. Would have been interesting to see. It is sad to see so much vandalism on the buildings. And people who go inside the buildings to destroy them forget there's asbestos and lead paint in them. Perhaps there's an unhealthy punishment awaiting them in the future.
flew my drone here. instantly will bring security to you. they tell you there is a field near by for RC aircraft. but i mean obviously they cant stop the drone. i got a few videos on this place. really is gutted and cleaned out. just brick and cement floors lol
Video sucks because you did not go in to explore, but I appreciate your effort and research into the history of the building. Gave you a thumbs up anyway.
You should see what the central islip hospital grounds look like now beautiful they should copy what they did .they let all the patients out with nothing or noone to take care of them
I plan on going there soon, lived on Long Island for mad long and the only 1 time i went i was with another person who knew where to go so now im clueless and watching videos
When I used to go, we entered the property from the waters edge and access points to the buildings weren't that easy to find but they existed. Fast forward 30 years access points are everywhere and people drive in straight from the street. All you have to do is look at Google maps, follow the directions and walk up to the buildings. Hope that helps!! I found the smaller buildings more interesting than the larger.
I think it’s the “powers that be” that would rather have these buildings forgotten and those who were living in them by allowing them to be ludicrously vandalized as to say that they were unimportant and now have no place in society!
Yes the medical building was built after WW1 for veterans. Was the only building that was an actual hospital. Also probably the creepiest building to explore inside. Leads down to a web of underground tunnels
This series of buildings was a topic of conversation about 2 weeks ago. I asked, why hasn't the land been developed? Short answer, the entire site is heavily contaminated with asbestos.
The white homes on St Johnland Rd. were residents of some psychiatrists, employees always lived off the grounds. Nisseqouge Yacht Club (on grounds) had slips for employees where my mom (Social Worker) obtained a private slip for our family boat. On the LI Sound we aimed for building 93 to get to the river. There was a coal plant to run the facility, near the middle school. The grounds were a cut through to 25A , to St Joseph’s Catholic Church, to The Kings Park Bluff restaurant Old Dock Inn. There is a IFC film from the 90’s where they interview psychiatrists and employees, some wild and sad information including how patients lined up for pitchers of Thorazine. It was never a luxurious place, at one time wealthy men could have problem wives admitted. If people had family members with issues they sometimes dropped them off at the intake building steps alone. My mom loved her patients, she was then transferred to Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.
I'm born and raised on LI and as a teenager in late 80's and early 90's we would go exploring at night. Actually our goal as teenagers was to party there at night without being bothered by the law.
The state psychiatric police do patrol the area. Back in 95 i was caught with some friends drinking with my car hidden up against one of the building's . We where all taken into custody charged with trespassing on state property, breaking and entering, vandalism, criminal mischeif possession of Marijuana and DWI for me. They forced me to follow them back to their command center under the guise of an ass kicking. But when your parents where police officers after a phone call it all wentt away. Just a warning becareful messing around at Kings Park........
On a side note the only thing we were guilty of was being on State property drinking smoking pot and listening to tunes. All the other charges where made up by these power weilding thugs. When my step dad showed up these clowns where humbled pretty quick.
dear God, no more housing...they're building nonstop out here, developments and endless "luxury condos". The traffic is really bad. It's damn near urban here..I actually like that they're leaving this space open but def could use a clean up.
This gave me chills. 55 years ago, I lived in Kings Park. I attended San Remo Elementary School, just down the street from the campus. The facility has seen multiple iterations over many decades. The building closest to our school housed disturbed/criminal juveniles. I had to walk past every day, to taunts and cries out the windows. Terrifying. Now I'm in peaceful, Perryville MD! Great work, Ian. Creepy serendipity, too.
Oh , my sister In law worked there . Everyone knew someone who worked there . My friends dad was a patient there , dementia. That place had it all . They were supposed to re open a theater there .
There is something special about this place. I’ve been taking my kids here for the last 15 years. So many memories. The buildings still stand because the construction is asbestosis.
The feeling being there is indescribable as he said. We love it
when you’re a teenager it feels like a jungle gym. we spent hours in those buildings. super dangerous though since some floors would have literal holes in them where you can see down 15+ floors
The indescribable feelings are the energy pathways of the tens of thousands of lives who suffered institutional confinement, locked away from the world in the throes of psychosis, severe developmental disabilities and abandonment by their families.
I remember riding my bicycle through the grounds and past building 93 in the early fall and autumn of 1977. On many occasions in the early evening, building 93 emitted the murmur of what seemed like hundreds of patients. It was eerie and disturbing then and now looking back even supernatural.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center had its even own railroad spur (connecting to the Port Jefferson railroad line of the Long Island Railroad, east of the current Kings Park railroad station), and probably had its own railroad station at the end of that spur, somewhere on the grounds of the psychiatric center. The railroad tracks across Route 25A were removed only a decade or two ago.
I wonder if anyone has any more info on the train station
I was a patient there in 1975. It was a wonderful place
Eventually, the Kings County Asylum began to suffer from overcrowding. In 1895, control of the asylum passed into state hands and was subsequently renamed the "Kings Park State Hospital". The surrounding community known as "St. Johnland" adopted the name "Kings Park". and this is how the town was named Kings Park. My house is on the walking trail of this park, its a beautiful park and thanks for the making of this video.
I grew up in the next town over. I've been in that building more times than I can count. Some times real late at night when it was creepy as shit. The history of that place is really interesting
Worked there for a year late 80’s before I finished nursing school. Words can’t describe it.
Please, try. Back in the early fall and autumn of 1977, I would cruise my brand new Motobecane Grand Touring Tour de France 10 speed through the grounds and past building 93. I remember that building emitting the loud murmur of what seemed like hundreds of patients in the early evening. It's a haunting memory that seems more like a dream all of these decades later.
Go in those buildings....they have wonderful artworks and serious ambience
No they don't. It's 99 percent trash graffiti now
I actually live near this place. My younger brother went here with his friends to explore the building. After a terrifying journey to get to the roof, they were greeted by some guys with a radio and a portable grill cooking hotdogs. I swear on my life I am not kidding.
🤣
Oh man. We used to deliver pizzas to the long term building before it closed. The admissions building used to have boxes and boxes of documentation in the basement regarding admitted individuals and what they had on their person at the time of entering the facility.
Had a friend who's property backed KPPC - a short hike through the woods and we were in the housing development. Most of it was picked over by that time (roughly 2005-07)
This was a nice stroll down memory lane.
👋 Ahh the memories. I was employed as M.H.T.A bldg.93 in 1984 as a 19 yo 😂
Worked in bldg 41 and left in 1989.
Place is historical and should be preserved.
Would make great museum.
Theres a very cool bar across the street from these buildings. It's called Shanahan's. It's in the woods. Great place.
I worked there in the 80s till it closed. My whole family worked there starting in the late 60s.
Great video. You need to visit Old Main in Utica, NY. One of the oldest psychiatric hospitals and campuses in the country. Looks very much like this but it’s literally in the middle of a city neighborhood. There’s a couple buildings still in use but not the huge ones. It’s creepy walking around. I work at the main hospital that’s still open now.
The housing units were call Home T. The nice houses were for the Dr's.
I live 15 mins from KPPC and I go here all the time. If you go in the back deep behind one of the buildings by the road, there is actually a little abandoned village where I'm assuming doctors on call would stay. There's even an empty swimming pool and everything. Some of the houses look like they've been burned down as well which is weird. Very fascinating. These buildings also used to be a lot more accessible before it got turned into a public park.
I remember when we used to sneak in from the waters edge and access points to the buildings were hard to find but existed. People were still scared to even walk through the property than bc patients stayed living here bc they had nowhere to go. These days families walk through constantly. Now ppl just drive in and walk into the buildings. Access is everywhere for buildings now. When I went in i found the smaller buildings to be more interesting. The larger were fun to look at though. Graffiti was minimal and now it takes up 99 percent of the walls. Paperwork covered the floors back than and was quite interesting to read. The living quarters still had furniture, equipment still lingered, basements still held property, mazes were not blocked, cafeterias, industrial refrigerators everywhere morgues and cemeteries. This was a Massive industry in itself it's just huge. Demolition is what is will happen. It has already been approved.
I’ve heard many times that building #7 housed the criminally insane .
Great video man
So the building that houses criminally insane on campus was Wisteria Building or Wisteria Ward. Building 7 was the medical/hospital building of the campus which also houses the morgue with 2 rear connected buildings and the cemetery behind those buildings.
Spent my whole childhood going in and out of these buildings. we used to lay down in the morgue trays in building 7. you actually pass the morgue at 32:43.
Those bars at 32:51 is how we’d get in. basically someone before us (we didn’t want to do any damage we were good kids) had removed one of those bars and you’d be able to climb in.
good times :)
oh 33:35 is another entrance we used
34:45 yeah they demolished it along with the smoke stacks :( there’s actually an odd amount of videos of the smokestack demolition on youtube for such a niche thing
It was an entire community, with housing and industry along with treatment. Many patients were there voluntarily, on an out patient basis, and worked or attended schools in the neighboring community. Pilgrim State is a similarly abandoned campus a few miles southwest of
Through a lot of your videos I’m able to relive memories I thought were lost. From kppc to south of the border and so on. I love your style in creating videos. I can tell you’re on the way up and I just in the bottom floor, can’t wait to see where you’ll go ¨̮
My kids play soccer on the field located right inside that property, towards the back.. I drive through there weekly! Great exploration video! 👏
The shock treatment machine is still there.
Some of the buildings are still in use. Towards 25A, there are a couple of half way houses and drug treatment centers. There are some equipment buildings that are also still in use, and even a fire department. Another reason that the area is not being built up is because of all the bodies that are buried there. There are several potter's fields around the campus. As a matter of fact, when the High School was built, a Potter's field was discovered and several bodies were exhumed but not all of them. Many of the records of the whereabouts of these Potters fields were lost in time. Next time you go, shoot me a message and I'll get you inside. I've been all through the area, inside and out, and underground too.
Building 22 has got to be haunted. I used to explore alone and I’ve always experienced paranormal activity in it
The art drawn by the patient is in the basement of building 93. The paintings were done by a famous cartoonist named Percy Crosby whose comic strip character Skippy was very popular from the mid nineteen twenties thru the mid forties. The vandals destroyed his work. Sad but true.
NYS Park Police and even local police patrol this area. Not as routinely as you would like. I went there on Halloween coincidently enough during the day time. No one is breaking into these buildings especially during the day.
People walk around the area, site see and exercise. Its definitely good for that. The Nissequoge state park and ocean is adjacent to the Psych Center. So the view of the lake and rivers are very nice. When they built this place they new what they were doing as far as location was concerned.
Its pretty interesting to check out plus its close to Sunken Meadow State Park.
I live here in Long Island, New York. I live about 15 minutes from there great coverage. They have tunnels that connect the buildings underneath that is how they used to transport when I went there you were able to go into the morgue and they had little sliding things where you can get into the next room that was the only way
Finally someone did this place
I don't know why NY State closed this institution down. The State also closed down Pilgrim State and Willow Brook Psych. Hospital. The mentally ill people are running around NYC causing Havoc. Walk around Manhattan and you will see at least one deranged person on every block.
I hope one day the State will reconsider and reopen these Psych. Hospitals.
They closed Kings park because of cancer causing asbestos in the buildings.
It needs to be refurbished,and re-opened.The need is great,and will only get greater.
More information can be found at Wikipedia. There are explanations of alot of the buildings.
In between 93 and the listeria building used to be cafe 56. Very entertaining place when the facility was still open
Cool video. I grew up in the shadows of these buildings. My friends and I spent some time inside them and the tunnel system. There really should be a professional and detailed documentary done by the state. ... I meet a lot of people in my line of work. Every so often I meet someone who worked there. I ask so many questions. Side note. during construction My grandfather drove a truck back and forth from Brooklyn delivering materials. Sadly he passed before I could ask him any questions.
They have these crazy wards all over Suffolk county. They recently tore down the 1 in central islip and build luxury townhouses, a gated community . In the deer park I think that - 1 is still operational just not at full capacity. This ain’t nothing new in Long Island
Also … maybe I missed it in your video , there’s a railway system on the grounds . Tracks and a locomotive were found many years ago .
Hi, I am a local amateur explorer and am also a huge lover of the outdoors. In this video you commented that you see lots of locals “breaking” into these buildings. Well, just so you know I was one of those individuals there with my family the day you were filming and we were not breaking into anything. We were doing exactly what you were doing, which is exploring. And another thing we are locals we did not come here from some other place just to see this and put it on the Internet so now other people could come and see this place. What is funny is that you’re not allowed to film anything in the facility because we were confronted by the state police that are still on site who informed us of this ( even though no one was filming or even had a phone in hand).I also go there to collect praying mantis eggs to put in my gardens to keep away predator bugs so I know that when me and my people go explore, we are sure to be respectful of the facility.
It is breaking in…😂
You should do pilgrim state, its just a few miles south on the sagtikos pkwy where you are currently at
You should explore Crownsville Hospital complex in Anne Arundel County, MD. Alot of interesting old buildings . Some look like they have been repurposed but a lot seem to be abandoned.
Bldg 7 was actually taller than 93 before they demolished the cube. It feels creepy because several people have fallen to their demise from the top. One of the reasons it was demolished. Also right where you're walking a large single story building used to be attached to building 7. Had a pool and a bowling alley. Was probably the largest building square in square footage. The grounds are now split in half. You should check out the other side. The medical building and building 44 aka The Quad
Thank you for this video. Recently moved to Florida but for decades I visited this place weekly living on Long Island. You are correct about the building behind 93 being a “support” building, as this was the Laundry building for the complex. Awesome video, Ian. 🎸
All of those buildings contain large amounts of asbestos. Before they can be demolished, it would all need to be removed. Its extremely expensive and is deemed not cost effective.
I was there with my wife on the weekend before hurricane Sandy, exploring. The massive amount of mindless vandalism done to those buildings speaks loudly.
We gained entrance to the warehouse with thousands and thousands of medication cups strewn all over the floors. It was not possible to gain entrance to any of the other buildings as it required physical prowess that my wife wasn't up to.
The entire grounds reverberate with the energy pathways of tens of thousands of tortured souls whose pain yet still lingers. I will not be surprised to know that many trapped souls remain, not knowing they're dead still believing they are patients.
In the early fall and autumn of 1977, I would cruise my Motobecane 10-speed through the grounds past building 93. It was early in the evening and still warm. The building emitted the murmuring hum of hundreds of patients inside like a hive. It was eerie then and looking back nearly 50 years later, supernatural.
I have a video of them collapsing the stack . 4 blocks from me
Great video, Ian! Thank you!
Yes. Most of the wooden structures that look residential were for staff doctors and nurses
Wasn't there a building that was known as the power plant for KPPC? Provided electricity for the complex. A building known as the bakery? Another building that disposed of garbage by burning it? Too bad you didn't find the cemetery area. Would have been interesting to see. It is sad to see so much vandalism on the buildings. And people who go inside the buildings to destroy them forget there's asbestos and lead paint in them. Perhaps there's an unhealthy punishment awaiting them in the future.
flew my drone here. instantly will bring security to you. they tell you there is a field near by for RC aircraft. but i mean obviously they cant stop the drone. i got a few videos on this place. really is gutted and cleaned out. just brick and cement floors lol
Video sucks because you did not go in to explore, but I appreciate your effort and research into the history of the building. Gave you a thumbs up anyway.
You should see what the central islip hospital grounds look like now beautiful they should copy what they did .they let all the patients out with nothing or noone to take care of them
I bet this place is super creepy as the sun sets
I plan on going there soon, lived on Long Island for mad long and the only 1 time i went i was with another person who knew where to go so now im clueless and watching videos
When I used to go, we entered the property from the waters edge and access points to the buildings weren't that easy to find but they existed. Fast forward 30 years access points are everywhere and people drive in straight from the street. All you have to do is look at Google maps, follow the directions and walk up to the buildings. Hope that helps!! I found the smaller buildings more interesting than the larger.
I think it’s the “powers that be” that would rather have these buildings forgotten and those who were living in them by allowing them to be ludicrously vandalized as to say that they were unimportant and now have no place in society!
My son used to play soccer in those fields. There was another huge building that was part of administrative. They tore that building down.
Yes the medical building was built after WW1 for veterans. Was the only building that was an actual hospital. Also probably the creepiest building to explore inside. Leads down to a web of underground tunnels
This series of buildings was a topic of conversation about 2 weeks ago. I asked, why hasn't the land been developed? Short answer, the entire site is heavily contaminated with asbestos.
The white homes on St Johnland Rd. were residents of some psychiatrists, employees always lived off the grounds. Nisseqouge Yacht Club (on grounds) had slips for employees where my mom (Social Worker) obtained a private slip for our family boat. On the LI Sound we aimed for building 93 to get to the river. There was a coal plant to run the facility, near the middle school. The grounds were a cut through to 25A , to St Joseph’s Catholic Church, to The Kings Park Bluff restaurant Old Dock Inn. There is a IFC film from the 90’s where they interview psychiatrists and employees, some wild and sad information including how patients lined up for pitchers of Thorazine. It was never a luxurious place, at one time wealthy men could have problem wives admitted. If people had family members with issues they sometimes dropped them off at the intake building steps alone. My mom loved her patients, she was then transferred to Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.
Found out my wife’s grandmother was dropped off at pilgrim state and he started a new life. Crazy
I'm born and raised on LI and as a teenager in late 80's and early 90's we would go exploring at night. Actually our goal as teenagers was to party there at night without being bothered by the law.
Doing the thorazin shuffle.
It's cheaper to let the buildings collapse into nature than be responsible and remove them and restore the natural landscapes.
10:56 that building was the laundry.
its still open. go to orange 72 i belive.
Are you from the area?
The state psychiatric police do patrol the area. Back in 95 i was caught with some friends drinking with my car hidden up against one of the building's . We where all taken into custody charged with trespassing on state property, breaking and entering, vandalism, criminal mischeif possession of Marijuana and DWI for me. They forced me to follow them back to their command center under the guise of an ass kicking. But when your parents where police officers after a phone call it all wentt away. Just a warning becareful messing around at Kings Park........
On a side note the only thing we were guilty of was being on State property drinking smoking pot and listening to tunes. All the other charges where made up by these power weilding thugs. When my step dad showed up these clowns where humbled pretty quick.
How about rehabbing one or two of the buildings to house the homeless?
Because of cancer causing asbestos that is in all the buildings. That's the reason they closed it down.
Great video. But just a thought...thats a lot of land. It could be put to use if the state would build it up and create housing.
dear God, no more housing...they're building nonstop out here, developments and endless "luxury condos". The traffic is really bad. It's damn near urban here..I actually like that they're leaving this space open but def could use a clean up.
I broke into here as a kid
This building was the basis for Arkam from Batman.
At one time Long Island had more psychiatric hospitals then anywhere in the United States.
This is what I get for putting in comments before watching the whole video. What the woman is saying.
That’s my home town