5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Not all graffiti artists are vandals, and not all vandals are graffiti artists. It is more complex than you make it seem, and has a unique meaning to each person putting up their name. While I can't defend or condone the distasteful and unskillful graf in this particular shot and some others from here, the essence of graffiti is expression and art. It does add history just in a different way. The history of this place as an Asylum is long over. This is just another era.

beautiful

these pics are so amazing.

May I ask, did you find the pipe organ? I see large chambers on each side of the stage (those rooms covered by the wooden "grill" and black cloth.

An organ console was somewhere! Oh what a cool picture that would have made.
Thanks!

The Otis elevator company is still in business. The oil cans fit with the logo they used from about 1950 on. I doubt they would have had much metal oil cans lying around from the early 1940's as much of the material was collected and used for the war effort. It looks like they changed the logo to black cursive on a yellow background with a twist top (these were 1 and 2 gallon size metal jars I found) in the late 60's or early 70's and the cans I found date form like 1972ish. My guess would be the oil in them is junk but they still make this type of oil http://www.qualityelev.../main/liquid/lub.htm along with several others that are comparable.

yeah instead of cocaine they did thorazine...

It's a penicillin farm.

I would venture no further!

After reading some of these comments, I weep for the future of this country. Good Heavens kids, at least learn to use the spell check & grasp a basic command of English.

All those dark windows. Not a single light to be seen. Each one held a thousand stories of people, (patients & staff), gazing out, pondering their past & their future. How many fingerprints were left on those windows? How many tears fell on those sills? Now the beast sleeps. Never to awaken.

Is this the "angel" from another gallery? Lovely photo.

Was static electricity holding this place up? Jeez!

My God. The third floor is heading for the second floor.

I would hold my breath and back away. The next speck of dust landing on the floor above could bring this down. Great photo tho.

Spectacular shot, Mr. Motts. Very surreal. It's fascinating to see a building dismantled naturally over time. Your photography has allowed us a glimpse of this process in stages rarely seen. This photo is also a great reminder of the hazards involved in spelunking through these facilities. Thank you for bringing these to us.