This brings back memories of my close friend who died in the early 1990s and had worked at King's Park. I remember meeting her on the grounds after work and visiting the wards.

Found your video while looking for videos of the Statler Hotel. I really like your channel and hope to watch all of them in my free time. Your videos are packed with lot's of interesting facts, and produced in a way that let's the viewer get immersed in the history of these historic landmarks. Please produce more!

OMG. I worked there after I attended high school and till I was 19 part-time in the kitchens of Building 4 in 73 and 74. That brought back memories. We'd go down in the tunnels at times. I grew up in KP. The grounds were much nicer back then and the dining hall filled with patients at dinner time. I am sure it is known that the buildings are filled with asbestos. I was a naive kid, basically, and watched some employees treat patients terribly. It sickened me. They'd laugh, thinking that abusing a person by making them perform for them was cute. (I also knew families whose parents retired from there. A couple stocked their own house with cheese and milk.)

you know thats not all that remains right

Fantastic video. I explored 93 in the late 90’s and explored other buildings again during Covid. I always wondered what it was like when the place was in full operation. This video was very informative.

Great video man. I'm also 37 and grew up in Kings Park. I remember going there in the 90's when it was open to visit my grandmother who worked there. I saw another video of an urberxer saying he was surprised about the shape it's in. Brother, this place has been explored by KP'ers before urbex was even a term 😂

Thank you for going in building 39 my grandmother work there until she retired back in 1993 she worked in that building 1970 to 1993 ❤

Awesome video, as always! Keep up the great work!

Love your videos dude

I grew up on Long Island, and this place was always the subject of such curiosity ... and fright. Thanks for this.

Ralph seems like a nice man!!!! I love hearing his story!!! Bless his heart!!❤️❤️

I absolutly love this video. So nice to hear stories of former emlpoyees! Wish I could see the movie called "Kings Park stories from an American mental institution" were former patients tell there story....

One day back in 1983 i saw my Grandmother one punch knock a patient out for being disrespectful

Hey he probably knew my Grand mother she worked there for 36yrs until she retired in 1995 her name is Mary Edwards

The old Abercrombie & Fitch has nothing to do w the mall perverts.

Ralph seems like a wonderful man. Really nice to hear about his time working here. Mental health and psychiatric treatments have always been an interest of mine so it is always very cool to hear about the social relationships between the patients and staff

Such beautifully haunting buildings across the Island Growing up in Central Islip through 2000s I was always enamored with all the building decay that littered the center of the town for almost a mile. Specifically passing the worn down “Sunburst Building” on my way to the shopping center. It even had a building identical to Building 22 called “The Corcoran Building”,But this was demolished before I was born. Currently what was left of the section known as “The String of Pearls” has now been renovated and turned into “The Belmont East view Apartments”. While a bit pricey for a central Islip youth I can still appreciate the ability to see the buildings in its former glory. He is far from lying with his claims of the campus appearance while operational. In terms of the effect the Farm Colonies/Hospitals had on Central Islip is they are responsible for essential carving a square mile out for central Islip. It even had a rail road that was connected to the current LIRR station in CI. Going on a tangent now but I am fairly new to the history and am ready to spew it on everyone 😂 keep up the videos!

I live 30 minutes away from Buffalo State Hospital. I actually just drove by it and behind it a few days ago.

I totally TOTALLY love 💞 Ralph for going back in there again! He totally deserves a big hug and congratulations for going back in there a second time and for giving us all a chance to be able to see what actually happened there . 💖💖💖

Really interesting video. Thanks for sharing

great get!! that first hand perspective was everything!

The Democrat Party defended the asylums and the money to build new facilities "disappeared". The poor patients ended up on the streets and eventually prisons. We send trillions to foreign nations but have no money to help the mentally ill in America...Shame on us

I liked this story, because Ralph mention something I did while I was at kings park in building #22, unit 221. Which was when I got mad, I'd punch out the windows too! In the day room, and I found myself in a straight jack, and once tied to a bed, but what ralph didn't mention is; That they'd give you a shot of Thorazine in your butt, to calm your ass down and put you to sleep! I only got tied down to the bed once! And boy, you'll be sweating like shit in those jackets! Hello? Jose R. And " Yes! Thorazine and melianol where a stable on these units!! And Yes, Ralph is right; Homosexuality was ramped in these places!

Amazing content! Frank is awesome!

I attended High School with a guy whose name is Stephen Abercrombie. Maybe they are related. 😮

Where would i get off the bus. How far from st Mary's cem is it.

Thanks for the address.

This guy was probably coworkers with both my grandparents and my dad :(

I graduated from this school in 2007, it was actually K-8.

Great video, thank you for posting!

Idiots…don’t even know it’s a tartarian structure…smh..no 3 white men built that in 1880! Do u not see the copper capstones on the building? Yall so smart who mined the copper in 1880 and flattened it perfectly on the roof?? I hate it here. Whyte ppl swear they did something

Imgine if those layers of paint could talk.

Cool that it is still there. I went to a sleepaway camp and we swam there. It is teeming with wildlife.

Just breaks my heart and hurts my soul! Wish I had worked there with you! We would have kicked butt together. Hurts that sooo many were just left there to be abandoned for so many years. I'm sure you do have some hurt feelings left over though. Take care and thank you for having a loving and generous heart! 💞

I worked on Rikers island. They traded wharehousing locations. Your patients became inmates committing petty crimes to Murder. Maybe keeping places like Kings Park would have prevented arrests and incarceration. Rikers Island was not equipped to deal with mentàlly ill people. Lot of homeless people walking around unbathed and hungry and unmedicated would be better off in an institution cared for.

Growing up in Commack in the 70s, I was always amazed by this cemetery as a boy. The Modells over there had everything. Very informative video. Thanks

Super underrated

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I went here as a kid and loved it. The petting area was unique. It is sad it closed down

That was great when Ralph went to flick the light switch off 💡Loved the video & love going to that place great job!!!! 🎸

I worked there in '86. My Aunt Dina(Potts) worked there til she retired. My mom was in the last graduating class from the nursing school with Richie Lundberg. Best work pal was Dan Whaley.

I was there many times taking my Mother in law dinner What a creepy place I had a few incidents

My Mother in law worked there her name was Arlene Hollingsworth

I've seen Ralph's videos, ❤ this man is a legend.. I am so glad to see that he made it back to the buildings

I watched every minute of it. Excellent ! He tells a great story and to see him back in that office was great. I love looking around that place and the insights were so cool to hear. Thank you. Very cool documentary 💥

A few scenes of the Robert Redford baseball movie The Natural were filmed there.

Great documentary..! the feeling i had when i exploring in person and the feeling the staff had when he came back and looked around decades later are very different It's certainly surreal to return to his office 28 years later and explain, but it's also sad to see it destroyed by so many vandalists i explored the recreation center, bldg 23, in 2007 before it was demolished, but it seems to have just been left as a field since then

Phenomenal video, John!

Great work. Very informative

Now they are out on the streets.