KINGS PARK PSYCHIATRIC CENTER
Former Hospital — Kings Park, New York
Status: Demolished · Access: Restricted access · est. 1885
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/kings-park-psychiatric-center-kings-park-new-york/

111-year state hospital campus slowly being demolished.

A former hospital in Kings Park, New York, built in 1885, Kings Park Psychiatric Center is filed here for what the record attaches to it. 111-year state hospital campus slowly being demolished. HauntHunt files it with institutional history, former hospitals and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is gone; what remains is the record and the ground it stood on.

Kings Park Psychiatric Center is the asylum that became a park — the 1885 Kings County farm colony that grew to 9,300 patients, the 13-story Building 93 that was 'the most famous asylum building on Long Island.' It closed in 1996; the grounds are Nissequogue River State Park now, but the buildings are still there.
The asylum was the city's overflow — the farm colony for Brooklyn's mentally ill, the self-sufficient community with the railroad spur and the power plant, the lobotomies and Thorazine that emptied it. Building 93 was the infirmary for the geriatric; it's the landmark that looms over the park.
The site is still there — the abandoned buildings on the bluffs, the state park that opened in 2000, the ruins that are 'a testament to a forgotten era.' The file keeps Kings Park: the 1885 founding, the 9,300 patients, and the asylum that's still standing empty.
Kings Park is the archive's asylum file — the farm colony that became a warehouse, Building 93, and the park that's built on the ruins.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Kings Park is the archive's asylum file — the Long Island farm colony, the 9,300 patients, and the abandoned buildings that are still there.
An asylum that became a park keeps its tower — the file's suggestion being that Kings Park's hold is Building 93: the 13 stories, the geriatric infirmary, and the ruin that's the park's landmark.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Internet rumor] reported anomalies: Trespassers and investigators reported screams, figures and moving objects in the abandoned towers. Kings Park Psychiatric Center in Kings Park, New York carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Digital folklore: the retellings are documented, the original event less so. The anomalies are minor and stubborn — which is exactly why they're still in the record.
  source: Kings Park Psychiatric Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park_Psychiatric_Center)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· [1885–1996] Operated 1885–1996; patient census peaked near 9,000 in the 1950s. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Kings Park Psychiatric Center' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Kings Park Psychiatric Center — Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park_Psychiatric_Center

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