Most People Don’t Know The Story Behind Long Island’s Decaying Insane Asylum
The Kings Park Psychiatric Center on Long Island is one of the most infamous abandoned asylums in the country. It once housed thousands of New York’s mentally ill, and the treatments performed at this institution were shocking by today’s standards. Thanks to footage from YouTube Channel “The Proper People,” we can see inside this gargantuan, decaying reminder of our medical past.
Kings Park was established in 1885 in order to deal with overcrowding in nearby asylums.