i watched it being built in 1970. as i was attending the nearby considated industries on 541 Seymour Street as i just got discharged from another state institution in the Utica Rome area after doing a 7 year stint at a facility called Crane Hill School just outside of Utica New York i was so shocked to see a state asylum built so nice. i was on my way to having a 30 year career as an industrial worker with 23 years at one company alone. I've been inside this building on occasions it was an incredible building to see. I've actually visited two different people who lived here in the housing units this wasn't anything like it's midevil cousins like the one in Rome New York. New York State has basically two types of Asylums State Hospitals and State Schools this was originally called the New Syracuse state school but was renamed the Syracuse developmental canter as all New York State Hospitals was renamed psychiatric centers the former CRANE HILL SCHOOL whare i spent 7 years of my childhood and younger teenage years was a part of a well known state hospital that was just outside of Utica New York boy it's so funny how society has gone from one extreme to the other. while years ago they would admit anyone to an asylum for virtual any reason to now literally throwing everybody out on to the street in the name of cost reduction. instead of improving conditions and quality of care which they did with this facility. it's sad that they spent so much money on this facility and then just scrapped it out. they like to use the term out in the community. while some state facilities are separated from the community. while this facility wasn't that isolated from the community infact it had a Centro bus route right up to it's front entrance so to me this facility wasn't so isolated from the community as some facilities was
Revitalization plan: secure perimeter. Remove all unauthorized individuals from premises. Remove all debris and seal all windows, doors and points of entry. Repair any roof damage. Study feasibility of different options: shelter vs. office space. Apparently this mess was created by a series of mistakes for which the blame is immaterial. This building is screaming fix this , do something, find something better than the wrecking ball.
@@lucasmaniccia5132 im gonna take my drone up there and get some footage of the way it is now and then the new buildings that are gonna be built up there
A sad ending for what was a beautiful building- a victim of planlessness, neglect, economic mismanagement, and a misguided effort for community integration with the developmentally disabled population. This was so unnecessary and you have to wonder why it seems that every window was broken. OK, you can get away with it but how did the vandal horde find Syracuse on the map?
wonderful work of art! thanks for sharing❤️
i watched it being built in 1970. as i was attending the nearby considated industries on 541 Seymour Street as i just got discharged from another state institution in the Utica Rome area after doing a 7 year stint at a facility called Crane Hill School just outside of Utica New York
i was so shocked to see a state asylum built so nice. i was on my way to having a 30 year career as an industrial worker with 23 years at one company alone. I've been inside this building on occasions it was an incredible building to see. I've actually visited two different people who lived here in the housing units
this wasn't anything like it's midevil cousins like the one in Rome New York.
New York State has basically two types of Asylums
State Hospitals and State Schools
this was originally called the New Syracuse state school but was renamed the Syracuse developmental canter
as all New York State Hospitals was renamed psychiatric centers
the former CRANE HILL SCHOOL
whare i spent 7 years of my childhood and younger teenage years was a part of a well known state hospital that was just outside of Utica New York
boy it's so funny how society has gone from one extreme to the other. while years ago they would admit anyone to an asylum for virtual any reason to now literally throwing everybody out on to the street in the name of cost reduction. instead of improving conditions and quality of care which they did with this facility.
it's sad that they spent so much money on this facility and then just scrapped it out. they like to use the term out in the community. while some state facilities are separated from the community. while this facility wasn't that isolated from the community infact it had a Centro bus route right up to it's front entrance so to me this facility wasn't so isolated from the community as some facilities was
That's is the Syracuse development center for disabled people
I use to work there.
Revitalization plan: secure perimeter. Remove all unauthorized individuals from premises. Remove all debris and seal all windows, doors and points of entry. Repair any roof damage. Study feasibility of different options: shelter vs. office space. Apparently this mess was created by a series of mistakes for which the blame is immaterial. This building is screaming fix this , do something, find something better than the wrecking ball.
Is that the old syracuse developmental center ?
Yep.
@@lucasmaniccia5132 im gonna take my drone up there and get some footage of the way it is now and then the new buildings that are gonna be built up there
A sad ending for what was a beautiful building- a victim of planlessness, neglect, economic mismanagement, and a misguided effort for community integration with the developmentally disabled population. This was so unnecessary and you have to wonder why it seems that every window was broken. OK, you can get away with it but how did the vandal horde find Syracuse on the map?
just sad to see.
Indecent.