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Dont hold me to it yet but....I think it may be a New York Central tug. The location is correct and I looked at some old movies taken at Wittes yard and it looks like the same hull with the tell tale green house on it. Let me do a little more research.

They used to put residents in tubs of ice water for hydrotherapy...sometimes they put them in a tub with some type of cover on so only their heads stuck out. We had one client that used to spin in the tub ala the exorcist...

I like to read the posts before looking at the picture. Then I already have a picture of it in my mind...and yes, it does look like someone really wanted out of there...or really wanted whatever was in there...

I still can't get the sound of shuffling feet, gurgling drool, and the cries of an insane mind out of my heart whenever I see these bleak pictures. Not that the picture is bleak...but once you entered these "hallowed halls" life as a "normal" person was over forever.

must have built during the aesthetic movement....

The ascention...only there is no savior in this place...

It made supervision of the "clients" much easier. Now something like this would never be allowed because of client rights...a much needed improvement in the care of chronically mentally ill and developmentally disabled.

The rantings of an unbalanced mind...

Beds as far as the eye can see, despair piled up to the ceiling, big windows that let in the sun but don't let out the depression, no such thing as privacy...misery loves company...but these people would have preferred not to have the misery.

Can't you just feel it...feet shuffling along from one place to another. This was not a place of joy..,

I lived in the area decades ago. I am so sad to see that the building has been let go. I remember how beautiful it was when it was still kept up. It made Millbrook special. I am amazed that the city let it go.

Just found this site a few days ago - have been hooked ever since.

One of the elementary schools I attended as a kid had a bathroom like this - no doors, just little walls between the toilets. Only went there once a week for "GATE" but it was a normal functioning elementary school in the Hill District in Pittsburgh with kids who attended daily, too.

Never understood the bathrooms. NO ONE would use them! there was one "teacher's stall" at the end with a door everyone would stand in line to use - even the kids who went to school there every day and were used to it. So of course going to the bathroom took forever.

Ummm... yeah. No privacy in the can is just a little dehumanizing.

i dig this photo... reminds me of my lovely visit to rockland

Whoa.. wide angle lens? Or just.. trippy. Nice either way.

Looks like something out of Hostil.