My grandmother worked at Edgewood and my mother and father worked at Pilgrim state. I love the old 1932 map. The Pt.Jeff train line extended all the way to wading river.
I was employed there as a Psychiatric Aide. Worked many buildings including 7, 21, 22, group 5, 93 (the large multi-story building at the beginning of your video), the storehouse, York Hall and others. Have many memories of those days from the mid to late 1960’s.
@@jlangner2The slowly closed down the psychiatric hospitals because there were, unfortunately, abuses and inhumane treatment and conditions to the patients.
Now the sanitariums are closed and the former residents are living on the street. When you see a disheveled person wandering around pushing a supermarket cart with all their belongings these were the kind of people who used to live in these hospitals. Tell me what is worse: The conditions they had in these hospitals or living on the street?
This place reminds me of this abandoned hospital called Los Rios in Downey, CA that my friends and I would roam around in. We actually found storage rooms with patient files and stuff. It was insane. Super cool.
i knew exactly where you were before the vid even started. spent a Bunch of time in those buildings when abandoned. tunnels and all. i appreciate your videos too. just watched the vanderbuilt cup/motor parkway ones.. thank you
I would love for you to research Arthur Kunz park. It's actually Smithtown property, so the Kings Park Historical Society has no info on it. I've found staircases and building foundations in there as well. Nice Video!
With talk about housing homeless, drug addict and mental disorders we need to evaluate what we done in the past, because it seems like we are going to repeat our mistakes.
Enjoyed your video. As an FYI by the time I worked there, in the mid to late 60;s the Doctor’s prescribed medications like Thorazine. Back then we also still used straight jackets and some schizophrenic patients received shock therapy.
I can only imagine the torture that went on in those places in the early days like a frontal lobotomy! All guess work. I think the people in there would have preferred prison!
i lived in a drug rehab in kings park for like 9 months. it was fun living there. i always walked around for hours just looking at all the old buildings
Psychiatry is all but extinct, replaced by Social Workers. All Psychiatrists do is write prescriptions. Psychologists are still prevalent but cannot write prescriptions. The large hospitals closed down due to the warehousing of patients and subsequent lawsuits and state investigations of patient abuse and neglect. New ones are more supervised and much smaller.
L.I. is a dump, so glad I left during the housing boom and got way more than my house was worth. I'll never have to deal with L.I.E. traffic, Crookhaven town's sky high taxes or crackheads at 7-11again!!
You've done a lot of work on traditional history, so I don't know if your mind could even fathom the ideas found here and in many other videos. Jones Beach Park, Sunken Meadow, the parkway system, abandoned "assylums", and more. Anyway, here's to introductions. th-cam.com/video/EWQ774PqjIw/w-d-xo.html
you got some things wrong about King's Park. the reason they don't tear it down has nothing to do with the resiliency of the buildings but rather with their asbestos content. demolition would send that stuff into the environment and asbestos abatement on that scale would be too costly, so they just seal the place up--though not very well, let's just say. let me know if you want a recent picture of the morgue. also, i wouldn't encourage people to go there on Halloween nights--gangs have initiations and settle their beefs there, and those are just the sanest brands of violence you're likely to encounter after dark. why didn't you show the best parts? it looks like you only hit the vanilla side of the park with the smaller buildings.
what are u talking about lol kings park is safe there is no gangs but there is a lot of homeless people and drug addicts. there is 2 drug rehabs and 2 psych wards currently active inside the kings park compound. i lived there for a year and i never seen any gang initiations or anything like that. there is constant security patrolling the area at all hours.
@@snø_music0 "constant?" is that why there're a string of kids constantly shuffling into the place in broad daylight? if teenagers can slip past security, i'm willing to bet gangs can. I'm talking specifically about the side of the compound that's not active. I cannot personally confirm gang initiations but have heard it from multiple sources and seen the gang tags. it's safe, sure, relatively, considering it's abandoned, but if anyone can get in there the worst will too. the police and security refuse to go inside; i can think of no better place to go on Long Island to get away from the law then the asylum after midnight.
It would make a great place to for homeless but yeah gangs etc would be dangerous for the people 😉 we didn't have gangs when I grew up but yes explored abandoned buildings for sure
Our presenter here is confused with his vocabulary, and he says things that don't make sense. He refers to the residents (patients) at Kings Park Hospital as criminals, but in the next breath he mentions they are here not by having committed any crime. Well, the definition of a criminal is one who has broken the law and this is guilty of a crime. He means well, however. I can tell that much. He just refers to these human beings wrongly.
Do college kids want jobs in health care and social work we had to go to the hospital and be candy strippers for free and feed people at local soup kitchens and nursing homes visit the veterans etc for free but looks good on college applications which I had to fill out by hand no computer or computer in the 1970's yes the 1970's didn't have computer but type writers 🙃 😅 omg and hand wash dishes I was my mothers first dishwasher haha hahaha 😅
You CANT house any "homeless" people in ANY of these abandoned buildings. They are beyond contaminated with asbestos, mold, and unsafe foundations. They are not repairable.
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My grandmother worked at Edgewood and my mother and father worked at Pilgrim state.
I love the old 1932 map. The Pt.Jeff train line extended all the way to wading river.
I was employed there as a Psychiatric Aide. Worked many buildings including 7, 21, 22, group 5, 93 (the large multi-story building at the beginning of your video), the storehouse, York Hall and others. Have many memories of those days from the mid to late 1960’s.
Why did they closed? How many patients was there? Some of them had still thousands in 1950-60
@@jlangner2The slowly closed down the psychiatric hospitals because there were, unfortunately, abuses and inhumane treatment and conditions to the patients.
Now the sanitariums are closed and the former residents are living on the street. When you see a disheveled person wandering around pushing a supermarket cart with all their belongings these were the kind of people who used to live in these hospitals. Tell me what is worse: The conditions they had in these hospitals or living on the street?
This place reminds me of this abandoned hospital called Los Rios in Downey, CA that my friends and I would roam around in. We actually found storage rooms with patient files and stuff. It was insane. Super cool.
i knew exactly where you were before the vid even started. spent a Bunch of time in those buildings when abandoned. tunnels and all. i appreciate your videos too. just watched the vanderbuilt cup/motor parkway ones.. thank you
man you been in those tunnels? i've been all around that place but always stopped short of the tunnels.
I would love for you to research Arthur Kunz park. It's actually Smithtown property, so the Kings Park Historical Society has no info on it. I've found staircases and building foundations in there as well. Nice Video!
With talk about housing homeless, drug addict and mental disorders we need to evaluate what we done in the past, because it seems like we are going to repeat our mistakes.
It was the largest Psych hospital in the world and none have even been bigger!( former employee from 1984 thru 1996).
Did not know that, very interesting.
Worked in bldg 39.
AllenCollins......worked in bldg 25- ward 8.
@@LLjean-qz7sb oh KP or Pilgrim?
@@allencollins6031 In Pilgrim.
Enjoyed your video. As an FYI by the time I worked there, in the mid to late 60;s the Doctor’s prescribed medications like Thorazine. Back then we also still used straight jackets and some schizophrenic patients received shock therapy.
That rail should have date on it
Wow thanks for the history I vaguely remember my tax paying relatives complaining about stuff and we lived in Suffolk County patchogue etc 🙄 but yeah
I can only imagine the torture that went on in those places in the early days like a frontal lobotomy! All guess work. I think the people in there would have preferred prison!
The abuse at that hospital was tragic
Great place to convert to housing for the homeless!
i lived in a drug rehab in kings park for like 9 months. it was fun living there. i always walked around for hours just looking at all the old buildings
Psychiatry is all but extinct, replaced by Social Workers. All Psychiatrists do is write prescriptions.
Psychologists are still prevalent but cannot write prescriptions.
The large hospitals closed down due to the warehousing of patients and subsequent lawsuits and state investigations of patient abuse and neglect. New ones are more supervised and much smaller.
Edgewood was the tallest
L.I. is a dump, so glad I left during the housing boom and got way more than my house was worth. I'll never have to deal with L.I.E. traffic, Crookhaven town's sky high taxes or crackheads at 7-11again!!
You've done a lot of work on traditional history, so I don't know if your mind could even fathom the ideas found here and in many other videos. Jones Beach Park, Sunken Meadow, the parkway system, abandoned "assylums", and more. Anyway, here's to introductions. th-cam.com/video/EWQ774PqjIw/w-d-xo.html
Was there to had a good 👍 time
It should be reopened immediately!
you got some things wrong about King's Park. the reason they don't tear it down has nothing to do with the resiliency of the buildings but rather with their asbestos content. demolition would send that stuff into the environment and asbestos abatement on that scale would be too costly, so they just seal the place up--though not very well, let's just say. let me know if you want a recent picture of the morgue. also, i wouldn't encourage people to go there on Halloween nights--gangs have initiations and settle their beefs there, and those are just the sanest brands of violence you're likely to encounter after dark. why didn't you show the best parts? it looks like you only hit the vanilla side of the park with the smaller buildings.
what are u talking about lol kings park is safe there is no gangs but there is a lot of homeless people and drug addicts. there is 2 drug rehabs and 2 psych wards currently active inside the kings park compound. i lived there for a year and i never seen any gang initiations or anything like that. there is constant security patrolling the area at all hours.
@@snø_music0 "constant?" is that why there're a string of kids constantly shuffling into the place in broad daylight? if teenagers can slip past security, i'm willing to bet gangs can. I'm talking specifically about the side of the compound that's not active. I cannot personally confirm gang initiations but have heard it from multiple sources and seen the gang tags. it's safe, sure, relatively, considering it's abandoned, but if anyone can get in there the worst will too. the police and security refuse to go inside; i can think of no better place to go on Long Island to get away from the law then the asylum after midnight.
It would make a great place to for homeless but yeah gangs etc would be dangerous for the people 😉 we didn't have gangs when I grew up but yes explored abandoned buildings for sure
Our presenter here is confused with his vocabulary, and he says things that don't make sense. He refers to the residents (patients) at Kings Park Hospital as criminals, but in the next breath he mentions they are here not by having committed any crime.
Well, the definition of a criminal is one who has broken the law and this is guilty of a crime.
He means well, however. I can tell that much. He just refers to these human beings wrongly.
You are correct, "patients" would be the most appropriate term. I thank you for pointing that out.
If we took some of these abandoned building and put homeless people there, we could solve a lot of issues.
But they would need staff to keep the peace ✌️ 🙄 and social workers for health care etc job search etc Cash is king 🤴 👌
Do college kids want jobs in health care and social work we had to go to the hospital and be candy strippers for free and feed people at local soup kitchens and nursing homes visit the veterans etc for free but looks good on college applications which I had to fill out by hand no computer or computer in the 1970's yes the 1970's didn't have computer but type writers 🙃 😅 omg and hand wash dishes I was my mothers first dishwasher haha hahaha 😅
You CANT house any "homeless" people in ANY of these abandoned buildings. They are beyond contaminated with asbestos, mold, and unsafe foundations. They are not repairable.
@@annamariedickerson9759 I remember your last name from the 1960’s at the hospital. My mother worked with a Mrs. Dickerson. Mark
Abuse there