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If only I had the balls to go in there after all the stories I have heard from this place. I do know that when you drive by it, you get "that feeling". All the stuff I heard was just too damn scary to actually go in there. Though as I'm older now, I would visit if I didn't move to the west coast.

I don't know if it's mentioned anywhere on here, but houses in the area, were inhabited by doctors that worked there. Most, if not all of those houses had tunnels connected from the basements to the hospitals cellar. Spirits inhabit those halls as well as some of the houses. Alot of messed up things went on here, that were lost in records or just kept "on the downlow". Of course, this is just what I hear from my grandparents, my mother, aunts, and now former school teachers and people who live right around that area.

It's interesting how they avoid the use of the words "asylum" etc...

The "state hospital to stately homes" craze is happening to many old, historic facilities in the US; some re-use the old buildings and others level the place. The following are mostly or totally demolished / renovated for housing already:

Metropolitan State Hospital
Northampton State Hospital
Danvers State Hospital
Foxboro State Hospital
Byberry State Hospital
Haverford State Hospital

There is a group trying to preserve the buildings; I believe the place remains the same, and the future of this facility is still uncertain.

Wow, amazing. any updates on this place? Another condo complex in waiting to be sure....

weirdly awesome.
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ewh.
i'll need a tb shot just looking at that thing.
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amazing.
i love the colors.

creepy looking.

i feel like someones gonna pop out of nowhere.

very weird picture but really good shot.
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I think that they are just similer hallways. Look at the difference in the decorations on the wall, how in the oldershot, the brown wood winds back, but in Motts' shot, it's just a single line that doesn't wind back.... They are amazing shots though

its stil there or whats left of it there is plenty left to look at. ive gone two weekends in a row on saturdays with my son and had no trouble. im sure if your not doing anything stupid and just looking you will be fine. if your 16 and smoking weed there you might have a problem.

You know what, I take that all back - I can't be ho-hum about it. The more I look at that page, honestly, the more it truly pisses me off. I do wish they let the old bldg. just go with it's dignity and it's (and my) memories. I am really getting so tired of this nouveau riche BS, they drove me out of my home city - NY - and this is really pathetic. I mean read that last paragraph on that page; how SMUG.

Ohhh nooo... more unaffordable, sterile, condos? what a terrible, terrible shame. Well, I suppose the only redemption there is if it keeps some semblance of this beautiful place intact as opposed to it just dissapearing. Sigh. The rich get richer.... and they want to live in the old "lunatic asylum", lol, I guess, somehow, it's fitting. (????) Jeeze, it just doesn't make any sense, lol.

smoked more spliffs than I'd care to remember(if I could) in that little spot-light room. Saw more dodgy gigs and listened to some awful music. Thanks for the photos. I see the staff rooms haven't changed much in 20 years

"The Octagon" as it is sometimes called, is still located on Roosevelt Island. It was part of the New York City Lunatic Asylum that was located on the north side. It had a beautiful spiral staircase, then fell into disrepair to the point of it being a shell of a building. It is now being renovated into luxury apartments - http://www.octagonnyc.com/bldgHistory.asp