977 Comments for Hewitt State Hospital and Prison

Motts:
In your opening description, you made mention of your "lousy" photos.

Please, DO NOT regard any of your work as LOUSY. There are a great many people (myself included, of course) who enjoy and APPRECIATE your efforts to bring these locations to use.

The only thing I ask: Please be careful in your travels...

Mike

I think you're thinking of Pilgrim State Hospital in Brentwood Long Island.
http://www.opacity.us/...m_state_hospital.htm

that is a big building once your face to face its located in brentwood

Love this.

Gorgeous.

Like turn on automatically? Wow.

@Sketch - electric fences work through rain, ask any farmer. Thing is if there's a power failure - or if someone sabotages the system - there goes your deterrent. "Slashwire" doesn't need a power supply and is pretty hard to sabotage without face protection, heavy gloves, and a heavy-duty cutter.

@silkster40z - Yeah they are. They also could, literally, way a ton. Good luck walking off with one on your back.

@kitty - lol, I took culinary arts and know what you're talking about, I feel so smart!

They didn't clean out the freezers, didn't shut off the power, and didn't take the doors off the freezer so someone doesn't get trapped inside by accident. Fail, fail, FAIL!

That would actually be a neat place for "urbex basketball" if you kept it as spotless as you found it.

@MS - between this and the shoes picture, it's a grim feeling isn't it?

Makes it hit home that it was in fact a prison, and people were told "here you, take these and put them on. FASTER!"

@Captain Vicrotia - normally the urbex code is "take nothing but photographs unless it's in a trashbin or you know for certain the place will be demolished soon".

Joseph - after your "two eyes in the door comment", the picture before this I was looking to see if the eyes were in the open doorway and now I'm looking for a creepy shadow on the hallway floor.

Yeah looks like another place that didn't get utilities turned off.

The lighting is convenient for urbexing, but it also means wires with decaying/bad insulation still have power, anything left on could still be running, if you accidentally (or stupidly on purpose) flip a switch or push a button it could start up machinery.

If the last one happens it could quickly lead to "forget about being caught, run for your LIFE!".

Darn it Joseph now I have goosebumps and am creeped the HECK out! You soldiers know how to scare us civvies!