5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

You should have titled this one "The decaying of the Arts".

It was likely already dead when they vacated the building. It probably was one of those plants that cascaded downwards over the edges of the pot.

This picture makes me sick to my stomach. It is a very disconcerting color of green.

that sucks theres alarms in the toilets and in the walls so i d be careful and me anmd ernest do it in there mreeeee

An "Anne Frank" window. Sad and unseeing.

That lovely green moss looks like it has fallen from the overturned food station.

It looks like one of those minatures that people build for a hobby. So surreal.

Yes most windows on this building had a cage over them with two big locks.

Thank you Lynne, right back at ya! I don't mean to get all wound up about this, it's just it boggles my mind to see, in this day and age, that there is still so much ignorance surrounding the whole mental health issue thing. I think a lot of people take what they see in movies or read in books and believe it to be gospel truth, real evidence not meaning a thing to them.
It boils down to the fact that many people love to be chilled, thrilled and titillated because society in general has become so addicted to constant entertainment.

Granted, the individual colors are pretty lurid but the effect of them all together in layers is actually kind of cool, kind of a carribean look to it, islands colors mon.

I see the same thing reddll, like what was left behind after all the wedding party had left.

I like the greenish/greyish tint and all the switces give it a "science fictioney" kind of look, makes me think of old sci-fi movies.

Now I am REALLY likin' Van Gogo here. :-)

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but why would having a patient look out the window at you be scary? Now if the patient was throwing something out the window at you, that 's different.
I'm amazed at how much people put supernatural attributes on these places and the people who lived in them.
Guess what, they were just ordinary people like you and me(ok, probably more like me 'cause I'm a bit nuts) the difference being they needed help that places like these provided.
What in the world is spooky, scary, etc etc about that?
Someone looking out a window doesn't creep me out, someone putting their bum in the window, well, that's a different story.
If I saw someone looking out one of these windows I would have waved to them and tipped them a smile.

Absolutely, this would make a great oil painting, some of these pictures, especially the window ones, and the more colorful, would make great transparancies too.