As Kings Park saw rapid expansion following World War I, treatment for veterans suffering from mental illness was so inadequate that in 1922 New York State Governor Alfred E. Smith urged the ...

In Kings Park, like most places, Halloween means trick-or-treaters and creepy costumes. Unlike most places, it also means stepped-up patrols at the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center. The shuttered ...

An abandoned building caught fire Sunday evening at the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center, police and emergency services officials said. Suffolk County and New York State police received a call ...

The site of the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center is a popular destination for thrill-seekers, particularly around Halloween. But the buildings are dilapidated and dangerous, authorities say, and ...

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has issued a request for proposals to restore and operate an historic building in Nissequogue River State Park. Historic image ...

Condemned as evil, mental hospitals closed, leading to fragmented system. Dec. 20, 2012— -- It took filmmaker Lucy Winer several decades to come to terms with having been locked up in a mental ...

On June 21, 1967, at the age of 17, Lucy Winer was committed to the female violent ward of Kings Park State Hospital following a series of failed suicide attempts. Over 30 years later, now a veteran ...

Joy Behar has had a lot of jobs throughout her 82 years of life, and some of them might surprise you. “I once worked at a mental hospital, which prepared me for this show,” Behar joked, revealing that ...