5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

I don't think that at the time the room was so depressing. Most people were on medication--Antipsychotics, often relieving them of any type of negative thoughts...Also, if you look closely you can see that the wall colors were once blue--Associated with "calm" ..So it's more of a tranquil feeling. Don't feel depressed that these people were confined to such a small space, but think about the fact that there was actually a place for them to receive help (before 1954 /prefrontol lobotomies) when they did not receive it from friends or family they were once close to.

this shot so amazing! Motts, I love your work! (=

this photo is creepy, but beautiful,i love it

The colors are just beautiful. And that would be a pretty cool place to have a light, if it were so.

...They don't?

Thank God hospitals don't have wards anymore.

Reminds me of the photos of furniture in Pripyat (see Chernobyl). The people sent in after the explosion slashed up the furniture to keep people from coming in and taking it to sell because it was all radioactive.

Okay maybe I am crazy, too, but I can see it!

It was for veterans with psychiatric illnesses, and was part of the Kings Park Psychiatric Center complex.

Wasn't this a medical/surgical building for soldiers? Why is mike1968 talking like it was part of the asylum?

Interesting. I have never had my eyes examined by anything that looked like this.

I knew of a place that has a room called the "OT Room" but it didn't stand for "Occupational Therapy Room". It stood for "Off Trust Room" - a seclusion room for kids who were not behaving. It didn't have any windows or lights in it, and how they watched you was from an infared camera and communicated with the person in there through an intercom, that was located in the ceiling.

I wonder if Fedz is part of the Edgewood hospital gang? it was sad those kids tore that place up so bad. that it had to be destoryed. and they all
are adults now. not mentally they would tear
this hospital up .

The knobs are up high like that to be out of the way of gurneys so docs, nurses and orderlies can reach them... I think...

It looks like the doors on the left were put in upside-down. That would explain why the doorknobs are so high up.