3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

I doubt it, considering he was last transferred to Pilgrim...

"The highly publicized crime repulsed people throughout the Hudson Valley, and its aftershocks were felt on Long Island years later, after Mr. Fentress was transferred to a state hospital in Kings Park in Suffolk County in 1985. He had been confined to a more secure hospital, the Mid-Hudson Psychiatric Center in Orange County and, according to Mr. Darrow, he was transferred after doctors decided that he was not dangerous.

After an unsubstantiated report that he was seen wandering the streets nearby, neighbors formed a human chain around the Kings Park hospital in protest. Mr. Fentress was moved to Pilgrim State when the Kings Park hospital closed in 1996."

Source: http://www.nytimes.com...-mental-patient.html

Yes; I managed to get the interior of the Kirkbride building before it was purchased for tours... I was a bit disappointed at the sterility of it, and enjoyed the exteriors much more.

In NYC at the moment... yes I remember there was a caged off area in the center basement, which seemed to be last used for file storage - many Gaebler letterheads and other kinds of stationary were left behind in piles, some still in plastic.

The rest of the basement was a crawl space that ran under the two wings, with not much to see.

I'd love to head in there and follow your tour, taking photos all the way... if only Waltham wasn't so far away

No, this is in the basement of a psychiatric hospital.

They were closed, no remains were inside - left in the basement for storage presumably.

I can't remember why the light varied so much between the two rooms, but it's all naturally lit.

These were lit with an LED, they have a nice soft effect but if the space is large, I find the C or D battery maglite really cuts through distances.

I find the best tips for painting are:
1) Don't stand behind the camera and paint, move off to an angle from the subject.
2) Move the light around while the shutter is open for a diffused glow, unless you want a real stark photo with deep shadows.

No, medical waste is not a common thing I come across in abandoned hospitals.

Yes I have a few more locations in Germany, then I will return to my USA explorations (still working through 2005 photos).

No, most records weren't noticeably dated.

I don't know when this pathology lab was abandoned, although I would venture to guess in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

Flashlight painting

It's quite surprising how much medical waste is forgotten about. I know of instances where all of these have been left behind in hospitals:

Fetuses
Miscarriages
Brains
A full backside of human skin
An entire dead body

I do have doubts that these samples were from T4 victims, given what I have read about the program. This institution catered to adults (as far as I know), and unlike children, they seemed to have been cremated en-masse rather than carefully dissected and examined.

Also, as Seventh has pointed out, these bottles don't seem to be very well secured and much of the formaldehyde was probably lost due to this fact - so the chance that these tissue samples date back to the 1940s is highly unlikely.

But those are just my assumptions based on what I've seen, that's all.