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Long Island Farm Colony
Inside The Abandoned Pilgrim State Power Plant,
Part 3 🏭

Emboldened by company, I went far deeper into Pilgrim State Hospital‘s power plant than I’ve been before… and there’s still more to see. The King of all of Long Island’s Farm Colony hospitals, Pilgrim State still holds the record for patient capacity–13,875 in 1954. Such a massive campus would require Read more…


Long Island Farm Colony
Inside The Abandoned Pilgrim State Power Plant,
Part 2 🏭

I have been meaning to get back to the abandoned Pilgrim State Hospital power plant since the very strange interaction last February. As with many of Long Island Farm Colony‘s decaying structures, access points are inconsistent. But I thought a grey, rainy early morning visit may increase the likelihood of Read more…


Inside The Abandoned
Pilgrim State Power Plant, Part 1

The entirety of the Pilgrim State Farm Colony was powered by its own power plant, generating electricity through the burning of coal in a transfer of energy: from chemical to thermal to mechanical to, finally, electrical energy. Massive carbon emitters, the use of this kind of electricity has been phased Read more…


The Long Island Farm Colonies:
The Central Islip State Hospital
The Cemetery

When I was scanning satellite maps around the former grounds of The Central Islip State Hospital, I couldn’t happen but notice this: And I knew exactly what it was. The old patient cemetery or the Potter’s Field as almost all of the buried remains are marked only with a small Read more…


The Long Island Farm Colonies:
Abandoned Pilgrim State Hospital

Years ago I started compiling pictures from my very first and all-time favorite abandoned place to photograph, Pilgrim State Hospital–now the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center. Growing up on Long Island, the sprawling decay of the state-owned farm colony was always a fascinating place. With a dark and sorted past, the local Read more…


Abandoned By the Sea
Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford, CT

Warning: I’m on a mission to post all of my blog drafts in a very short period of time. If ever there was a time to “unsubscribe” or set boundaries on your V.V. screen time, it would be now. But I am quite excited for the ‘draft purge’ as it Read more…


Exploring Abandoned Nassau County Sanitorium, abandoned Tuberculosis Hospital

**Updated for 2020** This post has received a lot of traffic since I first posted it in 2015, but more so recently. I have since discovered that it is now a retail “community center.” Considering the continued interest, I unearthed more shots from my visit in honor of the now Read more…