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By the way no blood on the curtains, urine maybe but no blood. The curtaisn have been hanging there since the late 70's

If this is the building I think it is. It's gone now. But if you turn around and face the opposite direction there is the entrance to the solarium. I'm pretty sure the wards in the building are set up similarly. In a solarium in that building I found a suicide, one morning. I can't go into any details much as i'd like too. Suffice it to say I spoke to police officers for about 4 hours that morning. Starting with the campus cops, local cops and state cops. It was one of the worst days of my life. It was over 20 years ago and seeing this picture triggered the memory for me. So to anyone who was ever there if that spot ever felt creepy to you there's a reason.

cumezekyama? Wuzat? Gawd, all these new words!

A number of railroad-owned tugs years ago had short stacks, to enable them to travel up the Harlem River and under bridges that were not obliged to open for them as they pushed carfloats and covered barges to and from railroad-owned freight stations in the Bronx. One such railroad tug with a short stack was also one of the very last DL&W steam tugs, the HARLEM.

The old NYCRR tugs, based at Weehawken until the Penn-Central merger of 1968, were perhaps the most famous of all NY Harbor railroad tugs. One of them even had a brief "co-starring" role with Barbra Striesand in "Funny Girl" back around 1967. The NYCRR had one of the largest and most diverse marine fleets in the harbor right into the 1960s. Truly, this pic symbolizes an era long since departed down the echoing corridors of time.

Would those very nice hospitals be where we take grandma and grandpa when no one wants to be bothered? Yeah, I hear they're REAL nice!

Listen I don't want to get into an argument but I'm just not understanding the uncle story. Some of the things you are discribing just aren't making alot of sense. Was this guy pretty old when he was "released" because if he had the ability to read and write I'm sure it would have been recognized at some point. They all went to school, the older ones probably attended on grounds the younger ones (when I worked there) off grounds. I saw many who were capable read and write. You have discribed this guy as being prfoundly retarded. I'd sure like to know how grandma changed this guy into what sounds like a mildly retarded person. Just curious.

This is all that remains of the old Erie-Lackawanna RR ferryboat "LACKAWANNA". Originally built as the HAMBURG in 1891, she was renamed CHATHAM during the World War One. In 1949, she was dieselized and renamed LACKAWANNA. Her diesel engine gave off a high-pitched whining noise (I recall this growing up in the 60s) and was nicknamed "WHINING WILLIE" by the commuters riding her. She was one of the last active boats in the E-L fleet when all ferry service between Hoboken and Barclay St. was shut down in November of 1967. She also was the only Lackawanna boat to have radar installed on an experimental basis. As recently as the 1980s, this once-beautiful old ferry was still basically intact, albiet decaying and weatherbeaten.

i think they expected you to byos...
bring your own snack!
wasn't there a scene in "coma" where two people where working in autopsy room on a body & one guy was eating a huge sandwich?!?

this is very bizarre! i don't believe i've seen this kind of thing before.
kind of like a collage of.... stuff?!?

Kezy -- you must be from the UK!

WTF is a condo? It's a condominium --

I'm curious as to why grandma didn't take him in after he was born at Pennhurst? Is it safe to assume that his parents were also retarded?

i was there last night. it was quite a exsperiance. We found something interesting however. There are no "No Trespassing" signs anywhere at all.

I went there last night and i couldnt find the morgue...but im telling you its scary o and one more thign the security sux