5,961 Comments for Kings Park Psychiatric Center

Marie, just out of curiosity what does the CMT after your name stand for?

I told you before - NO MORE MEATLOAF!!! =D

reminds me of the first scene in the movie "saw 1"

dont eat the paint chips

been there. nothing crazy, just abandoned buildings is all. please people.. if your going to comment.. write in english. i'm sure it takes a lot less effort than writing in ebonics.

i attempted to go in one of the building once.. but when i approached the door it had written on it "GO AWAY, you will be arrested. it happened to me" something like that.. i got the clue and just kept walking. i heard of someone i know going in and finding old artifacts such as photographs of the patients families and what not.. I walked around the abandoned town.. i guess it is.. i also heard something about a town of midgets. but it can be a rumor.. last I was there in 2003 one of the main buildings had a bunch of art paintings all over and the grounds were open to the public as a park.. it was really nice acutally.

I believe the device is an old "slit lamp".

I think of the people from "the hills have eyes" when i see this pic.

3rd floor of that building literally has heroin users doped out there all the time. I've gone 3 times and there always there. Be safe

I'm amazed at the way they captured the beauty of a place a never thought could be beautiful

No Jessica scarlett its not cool its sad and heartbreaking and creepy even this was a mental hospital not a recreational center, there were not happy times here. my mother grew up near by here and stopped to see it with my uncle once when we were in new york and he was hugging her to make her feel safe and this was at night time and she told me she could literally still hear the screams

Oh my gosh if you look at the other pix this place is so creepy but this pic creates a whole point of view and brings beauty into such a sad, heartbreaking place

Back in the early 80's, this was the meeting hall for my boy scout troop. It was huge and quite nice. There were seats in the balcony, but there were no fixed seats on the main floor, it seemed like it could double as a gymnasium (probably did). Back then it was still old, but in good shape. It's a shame to see how dilapidated it has become.

Is this the building closest to Lawrence Ave? I used to go to the elementary school that was on the border of the grounds of that building. San Remo elementary, which was on Lawrence Ave.. This was back in the late 70's and early 80's. I also attended Wm. T. Rogers Jr. High which was also on the grounds of the hospital. Occasionally some of the patients would enter the elementary school grounds and there would be a big to do about bringing them back to the hospital. I remember the teachers at the elementary school trying to explain mental illness to us every time one of the patients came on the grounds.
Later in Jr. High School, I would ride my bicycle through the grounds to get home. The grounds were beautiful. And I hardly remember any patients walking the grounds. With all the old buildings it felt more like a college than a psychiatric facility. When I heard the hospital was closing I always thought the buildings and grounds would make a great university. That is until I heard about the asbestos. My family still lives in KP near what is left of the hospital. I know that most of the town wants something done with the land, but there is so much debate about it, it'll be another 20 years before anything is done.

did it snow??? lolz