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The rear of the building, showing the loading dock. Engineers and earth movers have now joined nature and vandals in the slow dismantling of the kings park psychiatric center, an. The video is also a catalog in part of the buildings grounds, with. The ruins of long islands kings park psychiatric center are often. The gap in the wall to the right has stairs that lead down to the basement. Kings park psychiatric center is a former mental hospital that now sits abandoned on long island. The kings park psychiatric center, called the kings county asylum when it. In 1975, the institution became known as the more familiar kings park psychiatric center, or kppc. Building 93 of the psychiatric center was a primary location in the 2010 feature film peripheral vision, a thriller from filmmaker michael d. Building 93 at the old kings park psychiatric center on long island. Tv shows, books, and urban legends, quickly becoming synonymous with. Stories from an american mental institution, a documentary by former patient lucy winer about the history and legacy of the facility, was released on dvd and theatrically in 20.
Building 7 view on blackbehind that evil inside door is the kppc morgue. Building 7, a modern 10story medicalsurgical and office building. Building 7 medical building photos of the abandoned kings park. Located on long island, it occupied nearly 873 acres of land and was in operation from 1885 to 1996. Locals speak of rumored hauntings, and one can almost believe them when standing in front of the massive building 93 on a chilly and cloudy winter day. Uncover the mystery of long islands abandoned kings park. Building 7 medical building photos of the abandoned. Opinion erasing the past at the ghost hospital the new. Abandoned building 7 was the medical and surgical building. The cost to run such an enormous machine became too large of a burden for the state, and with the overall deinstitutionalization policy being instated on the east coast, the hospital began closing buildings in a slow but steady process in 1970. The paperback of the kings park psychiatric center. Kings park psychiatric centers building 93 abandonednyc.