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Building 93 does look very sinister- almost like the architects were trying to design it like that deliberately, as some kind of a cliched image of a hospital from an old Hammer Horror film. No imagination, or what??!
Can appreciate the need to keep ground space to a minimum, but even so....
Looking at this amazing portfolio of pictures, I can't believe that such a massive complex has just been left disused to rot away and decay like this. If it was a single block of flats or something it'd be less remarkable, but this place is HUGE!! There are loads of homeless people in New York City and it's environs- couldn't it be used as a big hostel and rehab centre for them, where they could learn basic skills to help them get back on their feet again?
And what about all the struggling buisnesses that can't afford the stupid office rents of Manhattan? That old hospital would make a terrific buisness park if refurbished!! It all seems such a pointless waste....

There was one just like this in the zoology department of Birmingham University (that's Birmingham, England, not Alabama) where my dad worked as a scientist. Used to be scared to death of it as a child, I used to have terrifying fantasies of being locked in it!
This one looks in very good shape though- ANOTHER piece of expensive kit that the Third World's crying out for and the Western world can afford to just let rot....

Kate, are you a fellow Brit by any chance??!
What were these cabinets used for? They look like they're very good quality...

Daft to leave a piece of equipment like this- even if it does date from '73 it's still useable, and optometry instruments like that are expensive.
There's many an underfunded African bush hospital that would be glad to have that sent out to them- and a lot of the other equipment and furniture, too.

Take a closer look at the cabinet drawers- the cat 's remains are actually lying in a seperate, smaller drawer that has been removed from another cabinet, and placed within the larger drawer. The smaller drawer (coloured grey) is too tall to allow the larger drawer (black) to be shut- it's jamming it open. Thus it'd be physically impossible for the cat to have been shut in.
I agree that it probably died naturally- also that it should be left to rest in peace.

Definitely looks like a much nicer canteen than the one for civilian patients in another block- it's got daylight, for one thing.
Doesn't seem like it'd take too much effort to get it cleaned up and running again.

Nice peaceful shot to end on- a visual 'Last Post' to the final days of a military hospital.

I think the 'ghost' is either a cobweb or light interference.
Be interested to know what the books were- look to me like old telephone directories, or manuals of some sort.

A collector's piece, if ever I saw one....Bet it'd still work, too.

How old would those cans be? Late '40s, maybe?

Was that done by patients or by vandals? The latter, I suspect- stupid, pointless damn thing to do.

I don't think it was a real office, I'd say it was an old dorm that was later converted into a patient's activity room, with the different sections' names painted on the divider walls.

What are those perculiar metal frames for? Obviously not bedframes, and the wrong shape to be screens....

I see the face as well; uncanny.

At least the vandals seem to have left the murals alone- maybe if they were graffiti artists, they respected mural art, albeit of a different genre. Getting the patients to depict their daily lives via such a shared kind of creativity, for all to see, seems like quite a progressive idea back then- for a public institution, anyway.
The furniture doesn't even look smashed, just toppled over- it may not have been kids up to no good, perhaps some furniture was badly stacked and toppled over in a draught or something.