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It looks just like photographic tours I've seen of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in Brentwood (Suffolk County, NY). And I've also seen Pilgrim's enormous land area and property in-person various times.
It is rather rare and unusual to see such tall and enormous buildings anywhere on Long Island and then especially in Suffolk County. Pilgrim and Kings Park have the rarest examples of such tallness and size of buildings on Long Island, with the only other buildings I can think of that are so tall being Stony Brook University Hospital's main building (Stony Brook) and Nassau University Medical Center's main building (East Meadow). Such structures as all those mentioned stand out so starkly against the rest of Long Island's landscape.
I haven't made it out to Pilgrim as yet, though I plan on it as soon as it gets a little warmer. I actually took those photos pre-gear upgrade. So now I'm due to visit both Pilgrim and KPPC to play with my new toys lol.
I did attend SBU for a year and I graduated from Hofstra, so I definitely know exactly what buildings you're talking about. They are indeed sort of strange contrasted with the rest of LI's scenery.
Tiger_Scout: when did you last do work at KPPC? You probably heard the screams of explorers attempting to stay there overnight. Without giving myself away, I do plan an overnight stay in #93 this summer :P
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Originally Posted by AakaashBPhoto
Thanks guys!
I haven't made it out to Pilgrim as yet, though I plan on it as soon as it gets a little warmer. I actually took those photos pre-gear upgrade. So now I'm due to visit both Pilgrim and KPPC to play with my new toys lol.
I did attend SBU for a year and I graduated from Hofstra, so I definitely know exactly what buildings you're talking about. They are indeed sort of strange contrasted with the rest of LI's scenery.
Tiger_Scout: when did you last do work at KPPC? You probably heard the screams of explorers attempting to stay there overnight. Without giving myself away, I do plan an overnight stay in #93 this summer :P
Unlike Kings Park Psychiatric Center or KPPC (which, to my knowledge-- assuming I'm correct --is not at all in use for anything now but just abandoned), the main and largest (i.e., tallest) building of Pilgrim is in active use as a psychiatric hospital to-date and is called Pilgrim Psychiatric Center. They have a MUSEUM on their campus which details the history of Pilgrim State Hospital and now Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and covers, to some degree, the history of psychiatry as practiced in psychiatric hospitals. There are said to be any number of other buildings on that very, very large expanse of property owned by Pilgrim that are closed and abandoned from its earlier days. (At one time, it was the largest hospital of any type in the entire world.)
Pretty glad to come across this thread. Just a few nights ago I was doing my own research about the railroad spurs that serve both of these hospitals. I was looking at Google maps the other day and did not realize that the Railspur begins near the heartland golf property near Deer Park station. So like you I'm hoping to walk north along the tracks myself to take photos
What is amazing to me (and I have been to Montauk Point) is that the entire length of Long Island, which topographically starts on the other side of the East River from Manhattan, is so long from west-to-east that it stretches from Manhattan's edge (just across from Manhattan in Queens and Brooklyn) to its easternmost tip nearly at the latitudinal border of Rhode Island and Connecticut. Can you believe that? It stretches from the westernmost edge of Queens and Brooklyn and going eastward as far as the border of Rhode Island . . . which is just a rather short hop to Providence, Boston, Cape Cod, New Hampshire, Maine, et al (as New England is rather compact compared to other states and regions in the U.S.). Incredible!
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