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they didint knock it down i went there today it was still erect

The hospital had everything, dentist, hair salon, gym. Every thing we needed

This is definitley a quiet room when locked it turned into seclusion. I as a kid I was put in here for everything. Don't talk back if you don't want to go in.

I lived in this hospital on the childrens ward for a yr and a half. I left right before it closed when I was 15. This is was what our view looked like from our bedroom windows. Not a nice place at all. The building was infested with cockroaches that would fall from the ceiling panels. Sad sad place.

To those who are unaware:
Letchworth Institution was built in accordance to a plan to help families with disabled children and adults. The institution took in the disabled people and for many years it worked great, but soon it worked too well and the places got over crowded to the point where it was unsafe closing buildings and shutting down the institution completely was the last resort. Letchworth did not Kill patients if there was no room, as for experiments.. yes, they were done but not in 'Dr.Evil' sort of ways. electrolysis and stuff like that were very popular in curing mental illness. As for the 'Underground tunnels' they do exist. Much like Disney World the tunnels provide a way for workers to get around indoors, they connected many of the buildings so the workers would not have to walk outside into the cold winter New York temperatures. As for the children who 'hang out' in these types of places are acctyuly destrying to property. These buildings are not old abstos filled which is bad for the children who are truspassing in these buildings but they are landmarks that will remain until some ungreatful money-seeker buys the property to make a condo-complex.. or 'children' keep buringing them down.. because of the stupid ideas of what is 'fun'.. police should keep better watch over these buildings so people stop destryoing them. Sorry for my bad spelling.. and inproper grammer.. I'm rusing to finish this because .. just because. thanks for taking your time to read this.. I very much so appericiate it.

Looks like this place is comin down pretty soon.

Yup!

No I don't think there was any glass at the desk, I can't imagine a good reason for it at this facility.

Yes.

You have no idea how much this photo terrifies me. Ehhhh...

my son went to a school for kids with emotional problems . They have a seclusion room. but they call it a 'time out room '. It has a lock and timer so that the teachers can put a child in it and set the timer then go back to class. My son has been in it a couple of times last year. I was never told about it until after the fact.

Sphincter-iffic?

Nice call out A D Nilsen

Is that irony, or motivation?

I gotta say, I prefer the turquios tile to the yellow tile.

After shot of the the filming of the Lion or the Lady?