1,927 Comments for Pilgrim State Hospital

no its pilgrim state

L.BiGGz, you didn't go there.... i kno

creepy. eerie. i love it. nice pics man, wonderful job

Neal, My family lived at Pilgrim on "The Circle" from 1948 -55. I am the youngest of three kids with two older brothers. Perhaps we played soccer, red rover, or statues in the Circle together on summer evenings before our mothers called us in for supper. Hide and seek in the "garbage bushes " near the garages was also popular.

I am still in close touch with my "best friend" Susan from Pilgrim. It may have been her TV you remember as I also remember assembling there in the afternoons.

We were probably also together at the bus stop every school morning waiting for the yellow bus to take us to Brentwood public school.

I, too, remember my "state hospital" days very fondly.Pilgrim was the third of the five at which we lived .Although difficult for outsiders to understand, life for the patients who were chronically ill, delusional at times, but not agitated, was a great deal more pleasant, safer, and much less threatening than conditions for the mentally ill are today where prisons, squalid nursing homes, and the streets have replaced the chronic care facilities.

What wall? It's already been broken along with the windows and furniture and etc...

Sigh . . . .

Another place that we're talking to the wall . . . . .

hey i smashed windows too i mean who cares itz already abandoned itz not like if were gonna destroy the whole place

i wuz right here it wuz so cool

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ok how do I get access? art_attack3@yahoo.com

again your use of light enhances the pain that echoes through the corridors

your images are incredibly compelling and powerful. thank you.

Does anybody know where on the Pilgrim grounds the cemetary is located?

Could someone tell me exactly where this powerplant is located on the Pilgrim grounds? Couldn't find it, though I used to see a structure similiar to it from the LIE back in the 70's.

Regarding a different structure, does anyone know the history or have any pics about the beautiful tower located on north edge of the grounds?

Once again, such a disrespect for the past. You might be polite in person but what reason is there for destroying a relic? Just like it has been said before, when people destroy these buildings it makes it harder for people who actually appreciate things like this to do so do to stepped up security and making things more dangerous. It's pitiful that that is the only way you can have fun. GET A LIFE!