Kings Park Psychiatric Center - Spooky AF!

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The Kings Park Psychiatric Center was a state-run psychiatric hospital located in Kings Park, New York.
It was established in 1885 by Kings County in nearby Suffolk County. The official name of the hospital in its first 10 years was the Kings County Asylum, taken from the name of the county that Brooklyn occupied. The hospital was revolutionary at the time in the sense that it was a departure from the asylums of folklore, which were overcrowded places where gross human rights abuses often occurred. The asylum, built to alleviate overcrowding in its Brooklyn asylums, was a "farm colony", where patients worked in a variety of farm-related activities, such as feeding livestock and growing food, as this was considered to be a form of therapy.
in 1895, when control of the asylum passed into state hands, and it was renamed the Kings Park State Hospital. The surrounding community, which used to be known as Indian Head, adopted the name "Kings Park," by which it is still known today. The state eventually built the hospital into a self-sufficient community that not only grew its own food, but also generated its own heat and electricity, housed its staff on-site, and even had its own Long Island Rail Road spur.
This famous 13-story Building 93 was constructed in the 1930’s and is often dubbed "the most famous asylum building on Long Island". It was used as an infirmary for the facility's geriatric patients, as well as for patients with chronic physical ailments.
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center, as it came to be known, at its peak in 1954 had a patient population that topped 9,303. It operated from 1885 until 1996, when the State of New York closed the facility

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