Dormitory

I wonder where these people are now.

McQuarters? Sounds like a McDonald's promotion.where you'ld get a tiny bite size Big Mac for 25 cents.

Or maybe it's a McDonald's-sponsored housing unit!

Sad =[

Fascinating...it puts everything into perspective. There were once real people roaming these halls. What were they like?? What ever became of them??

alot of them were just left their. They locked the doors
and left and never looked back. Some of the people who were locked in escaped. When i went their a few weeks ago i did see a few people in the woods. The people who didnt escape stayed and died then a few mounths after they closed a crew went back to remove the bodys and put them all in the feilds outside.

D- If you're kidding, what you say is amusing, considering all the urban legends that come up on this site
and that deserve to be laughed at. But if you're serious about what you are saying, let me say it's absolutely NOT TRUE. It NEVER happened. Even a bad horror flick would't go this far! (I wish those Smileys were available here, because there are a few I'd put to good use!) D, be careful in this world- it's full of lies and liars and it's best to figure that out. If anyone told me a story like this, I'd ask for proof: witnesses, articles, photos, anything!

I agree with you Isabeats, it's a cool urban legend but it is certainly not true.
However, this urban lengend did stem from some truth.
Many years ago at Long Island's other asylum called Pilgrim a patient did escape. Now mind you she didn't escape from the compound of the asylum but she got out of the building.
This happened back in the late 1960s when the hospital was badly understaffed. Apparently on one cold winter day one of the exits near a common room wasn't working right ( I think the lock was broken so the alarm wasn't sounding). A female patient pushed on the door and it opened. The place was so badly understaffed that the staff member didn't see what had happened.
The woman walked outside, in broad daylight, in the freezing cold. She didn't freeze to death outside but she was an older woman who devolped phemonia (sp?) due to the incident and died in the infirmary a few days later.
That's one of the famous Pilgrim stories. Kings Park (as seen in the photos above) didn't seem to have as nasty as a reputation in real life yet Pilgrim is a marvel.
A nother real Pilgrim incident which you can google and check out if you don't believe me is the case of Adam Berwid who was an inmate at Pilgrim in the 1970s. Berwid was so violent that a tag was placed on his clothing stating that the authories should be notified if he escaped. Through some bizarre loop hole on December 6 1979 Adam Berwid was given a weekend pass and went home to Mineola where his ex wife and children were living. Berwid killed his ex wife with a knife to please the voices. The children were unharmed.
I know it sounds like a legend but if you search google you'll find the reports.
I just thought I'd share because you seem to really be into asylums (like me) and I find some of these stories to be really creepy, especally the true ones. Pilgrim is a lot nastier than Kings Park though, maybe because it's been around longer?
Anyway other names to check out (altough some of these names are false, the real ones were never released due to privacy issues but the incidents true) involving unfortunate Pilgrim patients are:
1.Marcus Jackson

2. A 31 Year Old Nassau County woman Diagonsed with borderline personality disorder

3. Guy Delaney

4.Michael Berstein

5. Beulah Jones

6. "Mr. Cooper"

Okay just go to google and type in those names alongside maybe "Pilgrim" put it all in quotes and you're sure to get results. So far that' all I know about real life LI mental patient horror stories. :-)
Sorry about my spelling. I miss the spell check when it's gone.

LLI- Thanks for the names- I'll do searches on them tomorrow. ( I've been on the web just a little too long and need to get out for a walk.) I can easily believe the stories you mention. Things do happen. At Belchertown State School people "escaped" fairly often. One guy from K Building ran out naked into the snow. They used to sound some kind of loud horn when there was an "escape"; I remember, as a kid, being scared whenever that horn blew. Years later, I myself was sometimes forced to stay late so that I could join a "search". Anyway, I'll check out that info tomorrow. Thanks again.

The article below mentions most of the people LLI mentioned: http://www.mindfreedom...m/news/pilgrim.shtml

http://archive.recordo...4/01/11/nhforens.htm

Okay, so since I am out west now, sadly, and you guys mostly seem to be back East.... It may be off topic, but PLEASE tell me the old "smallpox hospital" ruins on "Welfare Island" in the East river are still there? Or is it Roosevelt Island? I remember dying to go there and look growing up and never got the chance. I used to look over from my apartment on the East side. I am talkign more than ten years since I left so my info is "fuzzy", but someone please tell me they have not torn it down and developed it? It was like the ruins of an old castle, just lying there... Or did it just look like that to me as a kid?

Here is a paragraph with diffrent info from the link I provided above,

Adam Berwid: In 1978, on Long Island, Berwid fatally stabbed his wife in the neck. Then, with his two children, he sat up all night over the body. He signed for a telegram for his wife the next morning. The telegram warned her that Berwid had escaped from another psychiatric facility

Okay, the last time I will comment on it, but I have read about this guy a lot, here's the scary account:
http://www.lineofduty....ry.asp?StoryID=61353

I would imagine that any patients whose names remain on dormitory doors would have been transferred to other hospitals when Kings Park was closed- it'd probably be quite possible to find out who they were and what happened to them if you were interested enough. I'd imagine those with less severe conditions have since got better and resumed life in mainstream society; those with really serious illnesses or who are untreatably, violently insane are probably still detained in other psychiatric centres.

None of us will ever forget that people lived here. The people listed as living in these rooms just got their due, their recognition. I'm sure that they moved on to other places, but at least we know that they were here.

Or panhandling in the streets of the city trying to keep warm and survive. Sad. Which life is worse?

It is as if time just stands still. They were here one day and gone the next. Only a name tag is testimony that they even lived. What a strange time in our history.

alive . i am a survivor of kings park . grew up in places like this . kings park was my last stop at 18 . right before it closed . i am functioning at 31 as well as i can

I've been inside the place before, i didn't see any ghosts, or anything like that. i saw a bunch of name tags, chairs, chains, desks, beds, finger nail scratches.. true that kids could have done it to make the legend continue but who will ever know..

Interesting and sad stories to say the least. Not surprising really. I do hope the patients that were not as serious as some did resume there lives and do well (get better that is). Than there are some that cannot be help....sad but true.

nicole,can you tell me what kings park was like,im really interested in asylums.

No one was ever locked in the buidings to die nor were bodies threwn into fields. They were sent ib there way, many with no help but no one was locked away to die.

I have a dear friend who passed away last month..She told me that many years ago she was a mental patient at Kings Park.
She told me that on days when she could shower, that she and the other patients had to stand in line naked!
She told me that the whole time she was there it was a total nightmare!

someone in my family used to work there its so weird how is that paper and ink still there? mayb somone put it there as a prank