1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

yo i was just their the the other night with a group of people and we walked inside and that was the room me and a couple of tother people walked in... its scary we went their with flash lights and we heard a whole bunch of stuff it was freaky.. but my friend and his gilrfreind made out near what it looked like the x-ray room creepy stuff..

after a while you get use to the weird noises and thinking that there is a person behind you every second... im a nurse and at first it freaked me out to be there but not so much anymore

Wow, that's awesome, thanks Snows.

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I would've liked to see that model!

But it was a good point. And after Motts explained it, it all made sense. I was also wondering why he had said 12 drawers when there looked to be 16.

I think that's the metal reacting to the elements, I don't think it was painted over..just getting old and hasn't been cleaned in awhile

They were growing unstable, but many people complained that they were an eye-sore.

yes this story took place at Pilgrim and it was in one of the old wards that had been converted into a teen narc center.

This is actually the rear of the building, the front faces the entrance off the pwky. I am sure in its prime the building was quite nice. There was a massive scale model layout of the comple and a huge libary with psych books, including books on NY stats hospitals and archives. the admin bldg also housed the hospitals offices and a bell.

Wow that is something. One of my friends grandmothers was the chief nurse on one of the wards at Pilgrim back in the 30's and she also attended the nursing school. I have also met several formar graduates of the nursing school, and yes, doc's and nurses were reguarly traded over to Edgewood or else where, and all of those nurses went on to work in the State Hospitals across the state. In fact most of Edgewoods staff was housed at Pilgrim and there are still graduates of the nursing school still alive today in that it was operational well into the late 70s.

this one looks like the roof just collapsed in.

I was there the night they were claning out this building (Tanking my own set of photos, of the complex and some of its demolition) and yes they were basically throwingstuff out the windows. I spoke with the forman who said they were mearly cleaning out old debris and espestosis. The building as far as i know was not marked for demolition, as the center stip of the campus is still used and operated by the state and the OMH. The admin building is still used to store stuff in and some times the lights are on inside and can be seen from the sagtikos pwky. As for Bldg 23 and the admid/surgical hospital, they are still there, most of the buildings behind them are still used or in some way operated. the dormatories to the flanking sidea have all been torn down. This was over a year and 1/2 ago, and the rubble still sits there, sort of an erie marker or grave yard to where buildings once stood. Items can still be found inside the debris fields such as wall paintings that somehow survived the destruction. the land contractor wants to put in condos or town houses to the left, a strip mall and aquarium to the right. but since these dorms had been ripped down, no futher advance was made to build these new condos. Now i wonder, who's gonna want to live in a townhouse that stares out at an active psych hospital or go to an aquarium where no large body fo water is present. I went inside the buildings after the doards had been taken down, and they were in amazing shape. it was shuch a waste to destroy them. As for this building, they cleaned it and have left it sitting there with all the old stuff (bedposts, matresses,etc) still sitting outside. I hope they don't tear down these buildings and hopefully find use for them, but their future at the moment is unsure, as long as the stae has control they'll sit there.

i've been into the parts of pilgrim state that kids break into the freakiest stuff i have even seen in my life..

I moved to Brentwood in 1959. This is what these monsters looked like even on a clear day!