1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

still looks nice

how long ago did this happen?

who ever fell is dead by now

the tub was cold because it is steel if the room was rellly hot then i getcha

aj .dont copy her u just sayin that becase u like her (check out comments to figuer uot what i mean)

is that dried blood on there?

As a senior in high school in North Babylon I was enrolled in a program where we worked half a day at Pilgrim. Earned a Certified Nurses Aide Certificate there. We worked in all of the different areas...pharmacy, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, and numerous buildings. I also worked full time the summer after graduation (1967) I was accepted to Nursing School there, but chose to go somewhere else. I don't remember ever seeing abuse of patients, even though it was a very difficult ,sad and depressing job. If I remember correctly it was mandatory to take a certain amount of vacation a year because of that. On occassion there were young patients who were sent there to have medical procedures done and also sometimes the criminally insane. The saddest was the elderly who were placed there by children who did not want to take care of elderly parents with perhaps mildly confused. I never liked going down into the underground tunnels that connected some of the buildings. I saw and learned a lot during that year, but never any abuse. That being said...it was an awful place to be.

I need to clean out my closet one of these days.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

I still work at Pilgrim. Bldg #1 It's still great. The new buildings are built with the same arcitecture as the old.

Check out South Oaks Hospital, Amityville,the old part.

looks like a halloween bat decoration on the left of the doorway.

Those mettalic (( maybe iron ? )) arches give this hallway a cold and naked feeling of lost hope. Almost looks like the inside of a naval ship. I would not feel comfortable in this hallway.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

Looks like someones house.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

wow. this is crazy. sounds like a sad place.

i walk by these mansions everyday on my way to suffolk its really creepy. when i was taking summer classes i was curious about the borded up houses so on the way back to my house i thought i take a look. i road my bike into what felt like an abandond community, very creepy feeling. their was overgrowth everywhere. i felt like i was in a horror movie. i saw this winding road that i thought was the way out, as it turned it was just another house with a dead end. i could hardly see the driveway because it was covered leaves and i got so scared i road my bike as fast as i could the way i got in. on the way out i heard something, maybe it was a security guard. i just know one thing, i am never going back their again! not alone anyways.

I, too, grew up on the staff circle at PSH. I remember Robby, Tommy, Herbie, Paul, Judy, Susan (and Howdy Doody on TV at 5PM) and a host of other kids and kid activities from that era. (Wow, you guys are old!). Last summer I went thru my old house pictured on this site; I actually stole a brick from my where my Dad's garden was. I remember putting that brick there with my dad when I was 7 or 8 years old. Very nostalgic... cathyo@cityofguthrie.com