Just a little history if anyone's interested, I grew up in the Philly area and live in the Philly area but I did live on Long Island for about 15 years. I worked at Kings Park State Hospital, Pilgrim Psychiatric Center was called Pilgrim State Hospital then and you also had Central Islip State Hospital under the auspices of the New York State Department of Mental hygiene.
I worked at Kings Park for 5 years starting in 1971 while I was in College.
When Governor Rockefeller left and Governor Carey came in big changes started and they started to deinstitutionalize patients from all three into the communities of Long Island at random, that's a charlie foxtrot for another time and place.
The point is there was a major scaling down of the censes of all three hospitals. All three were changed to Psychiatric Centers and not called State hospitals anymore in 1975.
Of course Kings Park and Central Islip closed completely.
When I lived in my staff house on the grounds of Kings Park, the frequency I monitored for the New York State Department of Mental hygiene police was 155.07..
Always liked the calls for intruders at the girls dormitories at the School of Nursing LOL. The girls would throw ropes out the windows for their boyfriends since there was a house mother monitoring all visitors with a 22:00 curfew.
