75 patients at Kings Park to be moved
Photo credit: Julie Cappiello | Building 93 is the tallest structure in the Kings Park Psychiatric Center's complex, with 11 floors, a two-story attic, a basement and a sub-basement. Standing just inches shorter, Building 7 is the second highest. (July 27, 2012)
Most patients remaining at the site of the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center will soon be transferred, state officials said.
A spokesman for the state Office of Mental Health said Friday that 75 patients will leave the building they occupy in Kings Park by Nov. 1 and move to Pilgrim Psychiatric Center in west Brentwood. The remaining 48 patients will occupy two state-owned houses in Kings...
Kings Park Psychiatric Center: Then and now