Finding out the location	very easy
Access	hard
Safety	safe
Risk of being seen	low
General condition of the place	bad
Traces of vandalism	very many
Good place for taking pictures?	good
Did you see other people?	few

Visit date    March 13 2020 at 2 hr
Visit duration    3 hours

Opened in 1885, a revolutionary facility that hoped to solve New York City’s enormous hospital overcrowding problem. Founded as a farm colony in which patients would learn agrarian skills and manage the sprawling hospital’s grounds, This center was for hospital officials to be a step away from existing mental health facilities with too many patients and numerous accusations of abuse.



Over time, it was expanded and for much of its early years seemed a success. Additions like the 13-story Building 93 and what would become the recreational Buckman Day Treatment Center were made possibly due to the hospital’s growing occupancy. In the aftermath of World War II, the psychiatric center’s occupancy reached its peak, and its relaxation-based agrarian approach to treating mental health was substituted for more invasive forms of treatment: the pre-frontal lobotomies and aversion therapy techniques that have since become a playground for horror enthusiasts; see 2012’s Fox TV-series ‘American Horror Story: Asylum,’ set in a 1960s mental health facility.

The psychiatric center closed with an understandably sour reputation, and is regarded by some as haunted due to its sinister history.



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