5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Nope, just this website for now...

@ My 2009 comment I didn't know jack shit. Now I do. Go there every few days. My second home.
Tom, do you have an instagram page?

Someone ripped half of this sign off. Sucks. If you're gonna take it...take the whole damn thing. Lol

OMG this image is amazing!!! This would make for a lovely album cover.

I love the lonely tricycle in the background, this is so haunting! You can almost hear the children of the past.

What an awesome piece of furniture. This is would be wonderful to fix up and reuse! I myself have an old hospital bed frame from the 30's. :)

Ugh the colors in this one are perfect!

I LOVE this shot!

Bldg. 15 came as a big shock to me! In 1961, as an 18 year old new to working at the Hospital's Plumbing Shop, I was not quite ready for the Human Conditions I observed on Ward 63 of Bldg. 15! Many of the Patients bore the results of the progressive effects of untreatable Schizoprenia. Long before Psychotropic Medications were able to halt the Process of Schizophrenia, many of the afflicted would degenerate into an almost inhuman state! These poor Souls would spend their remaining years in a living hell one would not wish one's worse enemy! I would spend the next 35 years working in various State Hospitals, for the most part as a RN and later an Operational Level Administrator. I watched the "System" grow from the languishing existence of Ward 63 into an effective Community Based Mental Health Care Organization. There was still a need for Hospital Based treatment, but nothing like the large Wharehouse like State Hospitals of the past. Unfortunately, Community Based and Hospital Based Mental Health Treatment is expensive. Today, with many of the Mentally Ill either in Jails, Prisons or roaming,untreated,on the streets of our Cities and Towns, we have to ask ourselves how far from The Ward 63's of the 1960's have we come?

I was here last night on the roof for the meteor shower. Definitely scary because of patrol presence but worth seeing every star in the sky AND 8 or 9 shooting ones!

I worked in Bldg 7 for a short time in the mid 80's. I remember so clearly being in one of the small dayrooms watching the takeoff of the Challenger. It was devastating when we watched it explode!! I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about it.

It happens to look like the little Rascals T.v or Lassies.

maybe to let the light in?

Good-looking Building 93.

Yeah - the left behinds: The lone chair....light
The lone piano....heavy
The lone pool-table....really heavy
That is how we do it.