Solarium

why doesnt the city demolish everything, not that i would want it to happen anytmie soon but its there for nothing..and also...how long is the walk from the entrance to this picture?

its not that far at all..all the way to the right of the picture u would walk like 30 more feet and thats the front door

lol...i was there yesterday....i was on the first floor by the lil staircase...that door wudnt break at all...me n my friends threw whatever we cud at it..it wudnt shatter...its like tempered glass...it was awesome!

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Ditto, Lyric. :-(

Andrew, These building are not standing so you and your buddies can go in and break everything. You are more likely to get caught 'cause of all the noise you were making.
I was young once, and one of the two times I got caught was because my friends started smashing stuff in an abandoned trailer.
And the other time I got caught? What I thought was an abandoned junkyard, was actually somebody's yard. (I still find it hard to believe somebody would have cars piled up on top of eachother in their yard) While exploring, this old guy came up and pointed a rifle at me. I never did see a house in there. I think the old guy was living in one of the cars. (LOL)

Get out!

Quote by Andrew, "These building are not standing so you and your buddies can go in and break everything. You are more likely to get caught 'cause of all the noise you were making. "


That's right I cant stand people trashing old buildings like this just for the hell of it. If you want to break and smash things than do it to your own home.
It's one thing to go in and look and another to trash the place because you feel like doing something.Have some respect.

LOL, You quoted me, not Andrew. Andrew is the one bragging that he and his buddies trashed the place last night. They also broke a bunch of windows in another part of the building.

Well, will just fix that.
Quote by ,Puddleboy "These building are not standing so you and your buddies can go in and break everything. You are more likely to get caught 'cause of all the noise you were making. "


That's right, I cant stand people trashing old buildings like this just for the hell of it. If you want to break and smash things than do it to your own home.
It's one thing to go in and look and another to trash the place because you feel like doing something.Have some respect.

Well, you knew what I meant.
Now after reading your post about what Andrew and his buddies did just goes to show you how pathetic they are. Wonder how he would feel if someone did this to his house.

Let us not forget that these same idiots that go in and trash things will have to explain to the local ER where they were when in their own limited intelligence got hurt because they thought they were being "cool".

Which will only result in these locations being more heavily patrolled by more than just security, and in some cases will bring the date with what ever development company has plans for them because the company won't want to pay out anymore hazard insurance than they already have to.

Which will of course take the real explorers and push them out, or worse, get them caught.

how did you actually get in? i thought security had everything blocked off at the front gate.

Didn't someone just ask this the other day?

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What is everyone saying about security? There is not security as the old Psych buldings in CI. That is why half the people i know have been in them. Just go there---you can get in anywhere, but it is dangerous. The cops are too busy getting the gangs and crack houses down the block.

This is the building that once stood on Commack Road in Deer Park I can tell you first hand it was a wild place to hang out in. It was even scary in the day time but to get the full affect you had to spent a night there. You had to hide from the cops and security they where always there. They had 4x4's and dogs so it was quit hard to get in the building. In the day time you could wait till security went around the front of the building, then you could get in pretty easily by running down the tunnel that was in the back of the building. But at night it was much harder, you had to make your way across a open field to the front of the building and climb up into a second story window in the ward on the left side of the building. This was a heart thumper because if security showed up you where pretty much nailed. Once in the building you only had to get up to the third floor to feel safe. I know that security often came in the building at night with the dogs, but we knew they didn't have the balls to go any farther than the first floor. There where 2 sets of stairs to climb up into the building but security blocked one of them off with old bed frames. This is how a lot of kids got busted, if you went up the wrong set of stairs they had you, there was no place to go you where cornered. Anyway the first time I was in there was back in the late-70's and it was in the day time, I really felt if I was going to start hanging out there I wanted to see where all the danger would be, and trust me there was a lot. Someone had opened the doors to the elevators but there where no elevators in there and it was a long way down. We threw bricks down the shafts and you could hear how long it took for them to hit the bottom. Even if you had a flash light you could see the bottom of the shafts. There where many door ways and some of them where still locked, to get threw them you had to climb thew where the window once was. At night this was not any fun, I can't tell you how many times I got home to find nasty cuts on my hands and arms. If you staid clear of windows you could use a flash light, but you needed to keep it low to the floor and only turn it on when you needed it. But the best thing to do was wait for a really clear night with a bright moon. So as you can figure when there was a full moon that was the night to try your luck. As you can imagine I was not the only person smart enough to figure this out, so these where the nights when the house was full and everyone was scaring the shit out of each other. These where the nights I remember most, there was nothing like running in to first timers and just scaring the crap out of them. First timers always made it easy, they just couldn't shut up so you heard them coming. We would break up in to pairs and the first pair would light them up, then laugh it off with them and give them time to feel like no body else was around. Then they would make a subtle suggestion and send them down the hallway right at the second pair, I can tell you more than once we sent kids home with piss in there paints. I kid you not. I know people that got the shit scared out of them so bad they never went back in that building again. I can remember nights when we heard noises and we would search and search for other kids and never find them, you can imagine the things that would run threw our minds. I think the wildest place in the building though was the attic, there where 2 giant water tanks up there and you had to jump a big gap between them to get to the ladder that would give you access to a tiny crows nest on the roof, where only one person could sit at a time. It had no walls or rails so you could imagine it was pretty scary up there. I only went out there twice, and only to look west because on a clear day you could see the city. This was the first time I ever remember seen Manhattan and it was amazing.
Well I'm leaving this story off here if I think of anything to add I promise I'll be back. I hope I was able to give you a taste of the joy of exploring an old scary building, I know I will never forget the good times I had there.

I hope this guy Wayne is 15 years old and is planning to grow up some. There is no respect shown here and I just shake my head. I went to school at Pilgrim, still keep in touch with some of my nursing school friends and cherish the memories.

it was all in good fun and if your there to explore than the fear is part of it...why not add to the effect. Helen should lighten up a bit.

ok responding 2 all of u guyz comments u can go ahead and break everything in sight because sum guys allready did drive-by's on tha factory there so theres bulletholes everywere and 2 helen please lighten up tha shyt iz abandoned and no 1 givs a shyt NEmore and u shouldnt either cuz u dont study there no more or do u?

are you serious? you have GOT to be joking

well what it boils down to is vandalism and destruction for no reason but ignorance.

Wow... this is wierd finding this site, my brother Danny is still at this place. but in live in Georgia. I remeber all the people would come to the open room at the end of this solarium and yell... me me to burnout in my (79) Trans Am in 1983
they seem to enjoy it alot.
Some times when i watch scary movies with my kids and it portrays places like this it seems so unreal to them, but so real to me... very sad haunting memories here.

My mother was in this hospital when I was a young child in the 60's. I lived in North Babylon which isn't far away but never knew how close my mother really was or that she was in the hospital. My grandmother spent 20 years in Kings Park. At varies times in my teens I would visit my husband's aunt that lived in Deer Park and would always feel an uneasiness. Today I work in mental health as an advocate, and many times I am on the grounds there because OMH has their feild office there in building 45. I have also been in building 102 which has been restored to a great degree. Federation of Organizations has restored one of the buildings and it is really beautiful, both in and outside.

how long ago did this happen?

I do not understand the mentality that empty building are there to be trashed! To destroy something just because you can - what joy do you get from that?

I wish people would go there just to explore and not to destruct it. The architechture of these buildings is pure art, and should be shown respect and not torn to pieces.

So we shall explore, but cause no dischord!

This is a great shot of the building.

it sucks cus they borded up EVERYTHING.now when I go there I cant even get in....but i know someone that works at the still running part of the many buildings that are still there

VERY SWEEEEEEEEEET PIC!!!!!!!!

WE GREW UP CLOSE BY AND USED TO HANGOUT HERE AS TEENAGERS,IT WAS AN ERIE PLACE TO SAY THE LEAST BUT WALKING THOSE HALLWAYS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT WAS UNBELIEVABLE,AT TIMES WE WOULD MEET PATIENTS THAT WOULD WANDER AWAY FROM THERE ROOMS.THIS PLACE WAS A BIG PART OF MY TEENAGE YEARS AND FINDING THIS SITE TAKES ME RIGHT BACK THERE,IM IN MY 40S NOW AND MY FRIENDS AND I STILL TALK ABOUT THE HOSPITAL WE KNEW AS "EDGEWOOD" AND ALL THE ADVENTURE WE EXPERIENCED THERE..R.I.P HARRY AND DEVRO...YOUR FRIEND ALWAYS DAVE.C.

To all that wonder why kids vandalize things, it gives you a thrill, especially when you are at pilgrim, there is security, plus the fact that you are in an abandoned hospital gets your heart racing. When I was younger I used to go there and hang out, party and throw around old lightbulbs and fans and shit, and it was fun, of course now that I've grown up some it seems stupid to me, but that was just the way I let off a lot of steam after my father passed. Now I look forward to going through there again for the adventure aspect, just going through the buildings I have not seen and just looking around. I can tell you the scariest thing that happened there the last time i went when I was 14 was the fact that in the tunnels underneath the laundry building there were homeless people who were absolutely whacked out of their minds, one had a knife and was talking about satan or something like that. All and all good times around edgewood with all the old abandoned cars in the woods and the abandoned buildings at pilgrim. Will say this, going through the woods on old commack road late at night you will see and hear the spookiest shit. I don't know how long ago most of these people have been, but the security situation for the most part is lax, there is maybe one or two patrol cars on site that actually go around the buildings but at night they are nowhere to be found.

some patients that were released back into the community acted out so they would be brought back , they lived here so long, this was their home.

this hospital isnt really abandoned. i mean alot of the buildings are but they still have patients here and offices. if you are going to go atleast resespect the buildings

The solariums were the smoking areas in wards of buildings 22 and 24 until OMH (The Office of Mental Health) banned smoking indoors in all of their buildings. Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee were the two primary luxuries enjoyed by the patients. The Canteen was located across campus and sold cigarettes, loose tobacco and rolling papers. Chew was more of a Southern and rural "Upstate" New York thing. There was also Coffee, candy, burgers and icecream available for those with funds usually acquired from on campus jobs in various capacities from sheltered workshops to maintenance, food service, social work and clerical assistants. The folks fortunate enough to have a meager income from part-time on campus work would usually be pretty generous with their limited resources and help out the folks who had none with a cup of coffee and some smokes from time to time. There was no glass in the steel grates of these solariums so it was pretty cool in there during the winter.

The whole thing is so sad. I'm going to check it out tomorrow with my son. He is 37 and I am 57. My sister, his aunt suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. It is sad.

When visiting my grandmother (60&70;'s), pts would yell at us through the bars as we walked up. Hated this horrible place!! And yes horrible things went on here........................

The third floor in this pic was used for people caught with any kind of drugs in the sixties. By agreeing to go here for ninety days your record was expunged. This was in the days prior to any recognized drug treatment. No kind of therapy at all was given just playing cards and ping pong to pass the time.