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Is this place still abandoned ?

Ralph, Motts, took this picture. He owns & runs this site, that we all enjoy so much.

I am able to walk normally today because of one surgeon at this hospital in 1954 and 1958.

This morgue did get use. After all, some people were deemed unable to function in society and were basically imprisoned here for life. There's a few local plots very nearby where people were buried in numbered graves. Here's a Google map link for the location of one of them:

https://goo.gl/maps/PiTy36cZfrMRFJFd6

There's another one, but I don't know where exactly it is.

I also heard a family story about a person who died of...I think typhoid...and had to be buried within the walls because of it. It's a third-hand story for me, but this would've been fairly late in the history of the place - the 70s or even 80s, I think.

I'd love to be able to talk to whoever took this picture.

I wonder how they got piano in there to begin with since there were no elevators?

incredible

A bad idea for the next Cialis commercial...

Very true on the devaluing of the site. We see so many of these places just rot, hauled to a landfill or just burned that it's such a waste. No question that copper and similar salvage essentially destroys a building.

I don't know what that is but due to Slayer being written on the wall and the burned area in the middle of the room I would say that maybe there were some kind of rituals going on. Not that I know about that kind of stuff. lol

That's amazing, glad you have recovered! I don't recall seeing too many ramps inside, perhaps they were removed before the building was closed.

Some large hospitals have an incinerator on-site, which is used to burn medical waste and small body parts. I don't recall there being one at Mt. Sinai but it's possible. Burning entire bodies is almost always done at a crematorium, where the ovens are large enough to accommodate a casket.

This circumstance should’ve given any developer pause. Would’ve prevented the landslide, I think.

This is an image that haunts me somewhat, since my Mother often talk about peering out of the windows there in the '60s.

Guard with Loaded gun.