Building 93 at Kings Park Psychiatric Center — Kings Park, NY
Built in 1939, this twelve story building has a very small footprint that allows every room and hallway access to sunlight by use of a stepped design. Bed-ridden patients were placed on the top floors, and the more physically abled lived on the lower floors. Like so many similar locations, it is very easy to get lost while inside as there is typically only one way in (or out).
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Nikon D800 FX
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The ominous continues as I keep my eye on the glow sticks. Life on the other side of the windows contrasts sharply with the gloom of the inside and it’s history.
Yes indeed – even though the windows are there, you need to remember that this place was made so that it was NOT easy to get out…hence the one way in/out comment.
You can check out any time you’d like but you can never leave…..
Yes…now there is a horror story…
It just came to me that it would be a cool TV show to have the main character be someone like you who goes to abandoned buildings to take pictures and have the visits paralleling the character’s own life interwoven with events that took place at the locations. Yes I have an active imagination! Wonderful shot.
I had one where a photographer is seen visiting one of these places, going thru the wards thinking about the events there, but is unable to find his way out…turns out he is actually a patient there.
Creepy! Love it! I read the book Shutter Island and really liked it.
I saw the film…maybe not exactly the book, but I understand.
The creep factor intensifies, Robert!
I must be doing something right 🙂
Definitely!😀
Excellent HDR and perfectly sharp in all areas. Yes, this evokes the creepiness of the place. How did you manage to go inside? Is it safe considering its state of decay?
Thanks Paula – yes, I believe in a modest processing of HDR images, helped in no small part by my D800. We went in through an open window (somebody always “paves” a way inside) – not exactly safe – lead and asbestos are mitigated with a respirator, but as you will see in a later post, a piece of a roof cornice made a drastic alteration in the building when it fell from 12 stories up.
a stark reminder- a world outside of the gloom!!
Taunting the patients…