3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Despite these medical buildings usually having a way in, those old houses were always boarded up pretty tight when I visited. There was a large one here http://opacity.us/image1595_headquarters.htm that was open once, but it was dark, empty, and gutted inside, not really worth shooting.

Recent satellite imagery shows rubble and fill dirt; I haven't been back there in a while.

Ha, yes thank you!

The buildings were usually wide open - not many interiors because it was so empty and monotonous in there!

Yes this building is still operational, as are a number of others on the campus. Building 25, also known as the Brill Pavilion, has always been used to house chronically ill patients, mostly geriatric. It was renovated in the 1990s.

Security was hit or miss, sometimes the guy on shift would be crawling around there, sometimes it was just quiet and empty.

I believe the top most doors were only used to access the refrigeration equipment for service; a scissor lift contraption helped move bodies around the taller drawers.

Yeah it seems like it's been sitting at the bottom of that cooler for a long time. I can make out: a white female, died in building 23, ward 3, Catholic.

Yes they finally tore these guys down in 2012 I believe. I hope someone salvaged all that great brick...

Yeah I can't afford NYC; life's way better out in the D for me.

Pilgrim State Hospital is still owned and operated by the State of New York as far as I know; although they may have divided the land up and sold some parcels to developers by now.

Yup we were shooting out of the building's windows that night; a patrol car was making rounds. The lens flare is similar to one created by the sun; the moon was just very close to the edge of the lens.

There probably was a board, and the last crew of painters just painted around it... the color matches the paint under the blue coat.

Nope, too much else to see in this place!

Nah I don't put disinformation out there to anonymize a place, I would just give it a pseudonym. Horace Mann was definitely in Kansas City, although it was on the Missouri side.

Yes that sure looks like it, nice investigative work Mica!