5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Hey, had to revisit this page after so many years, the comments are still so funny! Even funnier, the ad between the pic and comments when I came on was titled, "Put These Lights in Kitchen."

Back in the day (late 60s-early 70s), I played some youth basketball tourney games at York Hall. The old red velvet colored window curtains and balcony theatre seats with dark wood and dim lighting gave it a strange eerie feeling when practicing there during winter nights with not many people around. I remember the drive to York Hall through the hospital grounds at night with the old street lights was a little spooky too.

My freind threw this across the room into the staff like it was a frisbee..this place made monsters

As this theater building was constructed in 1932, I imagine those grilles were most likely decorative covers for a speaker system. I don't recall finding any rooms back there.

Those decorative grills flanking the stage should have rooms behind them for housing a pipe organ. I wonder if one might have been considered when they built the place? Being that it was designed as a multi-purpose hall it could very well have been used as a house of worship when needed.

Can't believe it's still around, neat!

Wow, I usually like to explore KPPC with my friends every so often. And we just so happened to be by Buildings 1 & 3 when we saw this bike in the trees. The crazy thing is that it was still fully in tact.

I worked at kings park for 7 years it was my first job.

looks exactly like it did when we went there in high school to smoke dust outside it.

A stylish old-time chair with natural coating. Should be the ones that are not too comfortable to sit in. :)

It looks like it could be a part of a bigger thing. :)

I use to visit my sisther in this place back in 1963 and in 1964

Sorry to hear about your experience there, it sounds truly nightmarish. Thank you for sharing.

I was a patient at a Connecticut state hospital in 1985.
I will never forget this week: Medicare was coming to the hospital to either certify or re-certify the hospital.
All of a sudden, our ward got attention--The floors were cleaned and waxed, plants appeared, new furniture arrived, and the patient bathrooms were cleaned (which was a good thing because a fellow patient would defecate in the sink, and it would usually stay there for a week. Another patient of the opposite sex would come out of the men's dorm each morning, and set up camp until bedtime in one of the women's bathroom stalls--with blankets, pillows, and all.)
So, this radiator photo reminds me of the pre-Medicare inspection cleanup--staff made patients clean up all of the cigarette butts that were piled up behind, and under the radiator.
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ohhh...eldokid@aol.com - you have plenty of lamps like this in your living room? But that is cool ;)