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I believe some of these were at Wittes, or Whitties scrap yard down in the Tottenville area.

The honeycombed ceiling is I think a concrete slab. The honeycomb matrix improves the strength to weight ratio by eliminating mass.

No, they were not animals. But you must remember, they WERE mentally ill, and in many cases they were a danger not only to others, but to themselves as well.

oohh yeah...a jail with ivy for the bars...I love this picture.

heehee "OH MY GOD FIRE! ohh look at the calming blue door...." heehee ok, I'm done. Beautiful picture!

I know a Kevin Douglass, but there's also a last name thrown in.
Oh well!
Gods I love this picture. I'm always one to try and get into the minds of the people who would have been in such a place and this one is just...wow...what if it was a patient? Someone sitting there staring at the walls for god only knows how long, thinking of a lost love, maybe one who put the patient into the hospital, the reason the patient was sitting in that one room...Love. Such a powerful emotion to be put into 4 letters...

why am i suddenly thinking of Rose Red when i see this? wonder if any of those kids ever did go in...
beautiful shot

yeeps...this place is so creepy im half expecting that thing to start overflowing with blood...
These are some nice pictures. You have an amazing eye for photography, as well as nerves of steel. You couldnt pay me to go in there alone!

these are some amazing pictures. the whole building has such a feeling of gothicism. its a shame they'll be tearing most of it down soon....

My lord...This is just incredable, this whole gallery. The deterioration of the woman throughout the course of the pictures is just amaizing. From bringer of love, to losing all faith and accepting fate....it's just incredable...

Oh, btw, I wish I could model for stuff like that lol

I went to nursing school on the grounds at Pilgrim. I also worked there for a little while,including the operating room. All patients were treated like at any other hospital. Treatment of psych patients has come a long way. I never saw anything inhumane going on there. Lobotomies were an experimental procedure, but not some human experiments like the Nazis.

I worked that floor for a few years, is how. It's been torn down now. Exists no longer. I recognized the set up of the ward. The wards on the 2nd and 3rd floor are identical in set up. The windows at the end of the hallway told me iit was J building, were it A building the set up would mirror imaged

Is it just me or do the simplest little details seem the most disturbing? A rusting chute door, a broken chair, a sink, a faucet. The wider room shots are incredibly powerful, but these tight shots have such a desolating feeling of the loneliness and dispair of the place. Not sure how much is origional and how much is just the fact decaying buildings always feel a bit... 'off' but it's astonishing.

I have to compliment the photographer, this is what art was MEANT to be, the beauty and horror and dispair and hope of the place captured in absolutely magnificent detail and color. I've taken art classes, been to galleries in 2 continents and even done some photography myself, but I've never seen anything like this. It's absolutely amazing.

When you look at this pic, makes you wonder who opened them......was it human hands.......or ghostly hands....

Eerie!

[tightly squeezing eyes shut, jamming both fingers in ears]

~~~LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!!!~~~

Thank goodness I can't hear or see a thing! :-)