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BALCONIES??? Thats no fair, where I went they didnt have balconies for us to have fresh air, they didnt let us out side ofr weeks!

Wow, you wont find one of those anymore.

This seems like it would a great place to go looking through the files- they seem so intact. I would love to look around in those and see what sort of patients were there.

Uh, no, Kathryn. It's been uninhabited for some time.

Excellant Pictures & Photagrafty.

Did The Patients Actually Live In There In That Condition ?
It Looks Like a Place For Rats To Harbor.

Impressive as ever Motts

THAT HUGE SCALE MODEL OF THE COMPLEX IS IN THE PILGRIM MUSEUM AT BLDG #45 OPEN M-F 8AM?-4PM

Great lighting, and contrast My favorite lonely chair.

I hope to have a print of this to hang on my wall. Just have to contact Motts.

*Stage whisper* Pssst...Lynne Lynne. *Okay she won't see me borrow her soap box.*


Again I most sincerely apologize for being long winded, but mattie and Nikki just pushed me over the edge.

First I'll touch on matt's survey. Well if you got your facts from the news/internet I'm sure it must be true hmmm...and ending your comment like you did man, come on. One must always keep in mind all the things Lynne says are 100% correct. Almost no facility can be inspected and found to not have any violations/deficiencies found. That is why we do those inspections, (I mean they) to look for a problem that needs to be corrected, and dealt with. Outside inspectors are there to dig deep, and find things staff or administrators may not see because they are too close to it. Most ALWAYS, I said always, that's right; The violations found are so...(I hate to say minor *scratches head stuck*)well so, umm not really that serious in the overall scheme of operation, and patient care. The violations that might be found could be things like dietary getting hit for not maintaining a perfect temperature of 187.45 degrees F on the steam table (Or whatever it's only an example..sheesh). The steam table at that facility might keep a perfect 186.5 degrees maybe because it's old. Now I'm pretty sure 180 degrees kills most all food borne bacteria, is this treating residents cruelly, callously, creating a nightmare environment within the facility... UMMM NOT! This is an (maybe poor) example of things that can end up on matties oh so accurate surveys. Before someone says it I will. Sometimes a facility does get found to have serious violations, and when they are, they are dealt with accordingly. Patient abuse is taken SOOOO seriously that IF..IF..it does occur, sometimes people who are only suspected, SUSPECTED mind you, of knowing it happened and did not report it, can face major disciplinary actions.

Now, please, please would all who comment about how hellish, and cruel the staff in these places were, "how could they have done that to those poor people?" remember this one tiny little itty bitty thing : THESE PLACES WERE STATE OF THE ART IN THE MID TO LATE 20TH Century OR WHATEVER!!! They were not about cruelty and torture. Those people were being treated with the most advanced techniques OF THAT TIME. The pictures that Mr. Motts provide for our perusal (Magnificently I must say) are of BUILDINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ABANDONED FOR AROUND TEN OR MORE YEARS! They capture some of the beauty that was part of some places, as well as some of the starkness, but um, um, well institutional buildings look like, well, institutional buildings. I personally attended a middle school built in the thirties and it looked more like a jail than the local jail, but most schools of that era were built like that. It's the same with these buildings, the ones from the 1800s are architecturally stunning IMHO, the ones from 30s are more stark, why you may ask was it built so stark..That was their idea of a streamlined efficient facility, a MODERN FACILITY, not one that was intended to be cruel and inhuman.
Lastly NIKKI, Dear Nikki. Lynne Most certainly has a clue. Please people stop lumping all caregivers into the same category as the commandants of Nazi death camps, they are the frontline in the battle to provide people with various problems the care that they need, to live as fulfilling a life as they possibly can.

*sigh* Sorry long winded again.
Here's yer box back Lynne. *Shuffles away from keyboard repeating I will not be long winded I will not be...*

Hmm. should the patients have cold or warm shower this morning? creepy.

Hello CaptainS. Granted what you say is on some level accuate, what parts are still good on a vessel like the one represented by this photo (an excellent photo by the way) "Bridge"? It does not seem to make sense to allow the good parts to settle into the mud. Once the goodies were gone why weren'tn't the shells scrapped out? Surely the yard has the means to do this.

The site where all these hulks are located, Witte's Yard, is located on the Arthur Kill, on the west side of Staten Island. This a junk yard. These vessels are old, worn out, blown engines, tanks, built during or before WW II, just plain outlived their usefullness. However, some of the various parts are still useable: generator parts, crankshafts from engines, searchlights, all of these things could be used on another vessel for restoration, to replace another worn out part. The family owning this site has made a small fortune over the years and someday they will be told clean it up and/or get out of town. Just like a auto junk yard, it's "not in my backyard!"

Thanks Heather, I plan to put up some Central Islip State Hospital photos at some point in the future as well.