5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Having family who lived in the town and worked at Kings Park I can say that the place was a lot more frightening when it was open and the patients peered out the windows at you.

it's the light at the end of the tunnel. I love Mott's hallway shots, he definitely has his own way of presenting them. There is another one like this on this site, and I just love how optimistic they look. Like everything that once happened in there is being slowly being reclaimed by nature.

I am reminded of a scene from "Bruce Almighty" where he is trying to file away the prayers and unwisely choses post-its.

Maybe someone filmed something here and brought this in for effect? I find it hard to believe that someone would have overlooked this bright red can.

This is so "weddingy" and almost cheerful! It is almost like one of those shots the wedding photographers set up with the bouquet.

Who the heck picked the colors for this place over the years? Must of bought rejected paint lots.

I remember in my ramblings in the the Great Smokey Mountains coming across some lichen that was very much this color. It is eerie how close in color the paint is. It looks like a whole room covered with the stuff!

The idea that the chair is facing away from the reflection pool and towards the window says something to me. It's like an inability to reflect upon the past and future and only living in the present.

i wanna take that and imm thinkin about talkin it so see for the last time

MY PHONE # IS IN THERE!!!!

DAMN THATS ONE CLEAN FLOOR!!!

Thank you, Jess. Your mother did a service to a small slice of humanity who needed it. She should be congratulated.

My mother had once voulenteered her time at kings park. At the time she had been a clown and went to go cheer up some of the younger patients they had there. She said it was the most horrific thing visiting them there and recalls a boy with cigarette burns all over his body from his father. She voulenteered at the veterans part of the hospital also. She says that this part was the scariest because they would scream at you for no reason. She was handing out their food and wasn't abled to talk to them because some would just flip out. My mom said that Kings park is an extremely sad place, and she would never go again. Not fair, I really wanted to go too... Well I thought that was some interesting information that I'd share with you from someone that has actually been there when it was open.

amazing...captures that melancholic morose feeling perfectly.

I agree Murphy, in the long run the book is probably more valuable than the phone was.

Interesting how time flip flops priorities