Comments on Hidden Hometown: The Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center

I remember playing on these grounds as a kid, I li...

2011-12-29T23:17:16.249-05:00

I remember playing on these grounds as a kid, I lived next door to the hospital. I remember buying candy from the hospital store.I wish you could get more pictures and video of the place!

Live right down the road from this, I think they s...

2011-12-13T19:37:45.480-05:00

Live right down the road from this, I think they should fix it all up and turn it into a museum or something. Talk around town here is they are slowly goin to be taking these buildings down

Have driven, or ridden past this place many times ...

2011-01-06T17:08:53.904-05:00

Have driven, or ridden past this place many times over the years. Always wondered about it. Thanks for a peek at it.

Whatever happened to the cemetery, or the Gate of ...

2010-08-24T09:25:22.540-04:00

Whatever happened to the cemetery, or the Gate of Heaven? Bad enough the patients were denied their last dignity by using numbered graves?
I drove by the facility to poke around, but feared the "No trespassing signs." Too bad a one time tour is not allowed.

the song is from the icelandic band sigur ros, off...

2010-08-23T19:08:54.525-04:00

the song is from the icelandic band sigur ros, off their first album i believe.

I grew up with my parents working and caring for t...

2010-06-22T19:16:43.916-04:00

I grew up with my parents working and caring for the property right up until after its closing in 1994. It was very heartbreaking to see the once greatly cleaned and cared for grounds I remember looking as they do. I had to leave my hometown to find work and watch as it is slowly dying without Harlem Valley. I do hope and pray that it is revived for it still has much life to offer. Maybe one of these days when I go home to visit there will be a tear of joy in my eye for there being life back to that great facility instead of tears of sadness from the slow death of it as it is forgotten.

lovely, lovely. lovely shots. I've been thinki...

2010-06-12T02:37:44.162-04:00

lovely, lovely. lovely shots.
I've been thinking of taking a trip myself, I passed it in a train once.

I like the music you chose for the video. Can sen...

2010-06-02T20:22:47.881-04:00

I like the music you chose for the video. Can send me the artist and track?

Lindab23455 I graduated from nursing school from t...

2010-03-26T22:03:33.093-04:00

Lindab23455 I graduated from nursing school from this hospital in 1963. Then it was a place to learn and care for our patients. It is what was done then. We have learned and grown in the psych profession. My memory goes back to when I stood on the stage pictured and wore my cap and NEW YORK state pin. I and many of my classmates are still in the mental health profession. I am a CNS and a counselor but my roots are in Harlem Valley State Hospital and it's teachers.

I trespassed on these grounds earlier today. So s...

2009-10-24T21:51:08.431-04:00

I trespassed on these grounds earlier today. So sad to see such waste! All I could see is potential. I would love a tour of this facility.