1,244 Comments for Central Islip State Hospital

There is broken window and glass on the floor and the window are shaped and the window when cut you and you will be cut and cry.

It has shadow and look so dark and spooky and it is so mess and has broken glass and the window are broken and scary in the place.

It is not a good place to go in and It is so so dark and much so so scary and don't go in the house please and it have a dead tree and it so spooky and like the song this is Halloween And silent night and this is Halloween house to go but don't believe in ghost and don't go in the house because ghost in.

L love it and I like it too and I wish one day I will go in the house and see what is there to do and I will go in the house in the morning

I like the house and it not to scary.

Thanks for these images. I recently learned my great grandmother was a patient at Central Islip in 1920.

I went to school there in the 90's. It was creepy then. The school was ghetto. Everybody was sleeping with each other, drinking, and smoking weed. There was nothing else to do. The area was vacant.

I grew up on Lowell Ave in the early 80's right across the street from the hospital grounds. My friends and I couldn't have had a better or more ominous playground. There wasn't much of that place that we didn't explore. More often than not illegally lol. My Nana was a pharmacist there and let me just say I could tell you some stories. I also helped her gather and sort all kinds photos from the early days of the hospital. Everything from step by step photos of lobotomies (intense) to pics of a patients contents of his stomach. He liked to swallow keys, springs, glass, pens, coins. Pretty wild. She was instrumental in gathering photos and documents for the museum about C.I.P.H. I remember sitting in the old shock treatment chair they used on the patients. I used to hang out and smoke cigarettes at the old playground for the children that were sent there. Friggin' creepy. Yet I learned valuable lessons in compassion, kindness, and humility as a 7 year old by helping the patients with their bingo cards.
I wouldn't change it for the world. I love you Nana!! May the souls that spent time there rest in peace.

Hi Laura, unclaimed bodies of CI patients were buried at the hospital's cemetery, located here: https://goo.gl/maps/WTgDknN4B8MazqXG9

Yes the graves have numbers instead of names, as being a state hospital patient was highly stigmatized back in the day. Records might be accessed via NYS Office of Mental Health: https://www.omh.ny.gov...airs/medicalrecords/

Wow, I'd love to have an office in a space like this. Wouldn't even care that it was shared communal office space, lol.

I totally agree with Laura G.!

Lynne, its great to see you still popping by.

My dad was adopted and I believe his birth mother was here and likely died here. Does anyone know where the patients that died there were buried? I think I read something about numbered graves. Does anyone know where the records are kept?

Stools from the NYIT College. Two of the wings (Wings 1 & 2) were used as Studio Spaces for their Architecture program. Wing 3 was classroom. Center wing was their adminissions office, bursar office, and library.

Please make this a wallpaper!! I would totally make this my desktop background!!

No worries Mary, if you'd like a print just let me know. Central Islip State Hospital was a huge facility, especially back in the 1960s before they started tearing buildings down. Thank you for posting your memories of CI!