5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

What strikes me here is the simplicity of the writing, its gentle sweeping...and then the star on the end. Whatever it was meant for, it is beautiful.

Thanks for that Motts... I guess it goes to show that not everything in newspapers can be relied upon.

And that there's a distinction between whether a building can be saved and the will to save it being there - and generally those with money seem loathe to repair old structures.

Perhaps the stigma of the mentally ill people who once resided here lingers on - at least in the minds of those charged with marketing any apartments carved from the shells of these immense buildings...

Sadly those of us who care about places like this tend not to win the Lottery very often :(

I've been studying human behaviour for many years. The Aquarian mind takes to doing things like that.

What?!?! No soap dispenser?!?!?!

Someone had some harmless fun here, it seems. Much better than grafitti, and destruction.

I think I've fallen in love with this immense ziggurat of a building (even though it's Deco and not normally my thing lol)... I'm a planning officer in the UK and I know conservation people who'd have this baby spot-listed in a heartbeat if it were this side of the pond. Whatever is done with KPPC, I hope that Building 93 forms the centrepiece. Imagine an apartment with a view like that!

How many layers of paint, that is.....

Now, that was SNEAKY, Motts. I looked right at that pic, and didn't see (you?) him until I read that post....Of course, the reflections in the lower window make it look like light from the OTHER side of the window, so it looks like a head just hovering there...

I wonder how many layers are there....it looks alive, but in the fall season.....

It seems to be another split door...there looks to be a lock of some sort near the door hinge. A drug dispencery?

Yes, awesome angle! Although that chair was most likely thrown there more recently. Vandals suck. They have nothing better to do with their time than to destroy. Asshole is too nice a term for them.

I've heard about the leaning, I'm no structural engineer but I think it might just be a bunch of BS. Many of these tall brick buildings built in the 1930's and beforehand have an outer layer of bricks which begin to crack and fall off, but they are still repairable. I've seen taller buildings whose facades were in worse shape be completely renovated into livable apartments. A lot of people will say that the place is too far gone to be repaired, take a look at the condition of other hospitals... ALL of the original Kirkbride at this site will be attempted to be saved. Think about that when someone says Danvers State or Kings Park is "too far gone".

I posted a link to the developer's website on the KPPC history page.

Rikki Tikki Tavi is a mongoose, Tony. Are you thinking of Rocky Raccoon?

Puddleboy, do you write from personal experience or are your sleuthing skills just second-to-none?

But yeah, I'm definitely with Lynne either way :-)

According to the newspaper link on the KPPC front page, this building is doomed whatever happens. It's developed a serious list and is pulling away from parts of the lower levels. Pieces of masonry have begun to fall from the upper storeys.

I'd imagine it would take some serious underpinning to stabilise Bldg 93, which considering that no-one's prepared to fund the abatement process looks somewhat unlikely. I wonder if gravity, rather than a wrecking ball, will bring this place down in the end? It's a tragedy that such a fate can be allowed to befall something this massive and imposing.

I agree with Lynne.....alTHOUGH......Sounds almost like you were there....hMMMM?....? ; )