I worked there in the Spring and Summer of 1969. There were some smaller buildings which were part of the Hospital. I was in building L Ward 40 if I remember that right. The wards were arranged by neighborhoods. Anyone who lived in Rego Park and needed psychiatric help was housed in the ward I worked in. I think there were attempts to improve conditions for the patients in those day. I was a psych major at Adelphi when I worked there.
The site was named after the Creed family, which farmed on the site. It later was used as a firing range from the 1870s till 1892. The Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital was opened on the site in 1912, with 32 patients. By 1959, the hospital housed 7,000 inpatients. The hospital's census declined by the early 1960s, and unused portions were sold off and developed into the Queens County Farm Museum, a school campus, and a children's psychiatric center.
My maternal grandmother died there December 20, 1965. She was put there for "mental illness," but in the end they discovered she had an inoperable brain tumor that caused her symptoms. It was a horrible place.
I always thought that this was a very creepy looking building whenever I would drive by it, and the fact that it’s such a big building shows that there are a lot of crazy people in the world.
I believe the campus full of buildings on the other side of union tpke is part of creedmoor. Some are abandoned, interesting architecture, frightening as well. That campus has some ambiance. It looks haunted. I delivered pizzas to the staff in some of those buildings, i could hear the patients screaming like just crazy screaming they were severely mentally ill. So point is that basically all that is part of the mental hospital. Really creepy looking. Would make a good filming location in my opinion. Cool video, for some reason this area and the building is fascinating. Alley pond park has a lot of history as well.
Creeedmore, like many of the large state hospitals, was a self-sufficient community. It actually stretched on both sides of the Cross Island Parkway and from the main building to Union Turnpike. They were designed to be almost like farming communities with buildings for the patients, as well as laundry, maintenance, staff housing, etc. This page from 2013 has some interesting history as well.. untappedcities.com/2013/01/04/abandoned-creedmoor-psychiatric-center-queens/
@@DronePsyche I grew up in that area and it was still operational back in the 1970's (the entire campus). Here's a documentary about it at the time too. ua-cam.com/video/onVsLd7KoTY/v-deo.html
First four years of my life we were living at the Monte Excelsior (still extant and still popular) the apt. complex that is just east of Creedmore (Or the northern campus of it) in Little Neck. I was researching Creedmore today again for some reason, including some book that came out in 1982 about a schizophrenic patient there, etc., which won a Pulitzer Prize. (Susan Sheehan) Anyway, I read further that by the 50s or 60s the patients outnumbered the staff by far, and, they started to have real problems with the violent wing patients, and the state would start dumping violent criminals right from prison to the hospital and they started to have real issues, major crime, violence, rapes, assaults, etc. would go on into the 70s and even to one infamous incident in 1984 or so where the guards killed some inmate with a blackjack even when the guy was in a straitjacket, apparently. After that, I think the furor got so great that they decided to start closing most of it down. I've read horror tales about Pilgrim State and Kings Park also for years. None of these places were too great. Snake pits. And then there was the infamous S.I. Willowbrook fiasco that got that place shut down.
@@DronePsyche I 'm enjoying your footage. I left NYC 4 years ago and moved to Delaware. But this is nostalgic! Btw! @ 7:56 that storage facility is where we kept our salt for our salt spreaders for the winter.
It's a crematorium ,and also there's a dungeons underneath some of this building,all of those buildings are belong to the hospital,the history also said that the campus was a battlefield, some where at the time of the natives.
Not a crematorium, it's an old power plant not in use anymore . And they are not dungeons, they were once used underground passage ways to transport patients/supplies from one building to the next when it was an enclosed self sufficient complex. Now you know.
My father was an abused inmate there (he had a massive stroke) till his death in 1956...it was a horror film for my mom to visit every weekend , Dad was frequently burned there. I was only allowed to see him on his deathbed as I was so young (I think the visiting age was 16) he did smile at me and I thought that he was another man ,not my dad..awful memories. I returned and documented the place acheiving an arts grant to do so, before they tore the old buildings down in the 1970's. when my dad was a patient there he was( if I remember it correctly) ,one of 11 thousand patients. The emergence of tranquilizers and anti depressant medicines and better outpatient care, in time made these huge mental prisons obsolete.
I drive by there every day for past 30 years. Grand Central>Winchester>Union Tpk. I always thought that hospital was completely decommissioned for decades. I know a number of acquaintances that have had drug and mental issues over the years. They always wind up in Hillside Medical, South Oaks or Holliswood(closed). I've never heard of anyone actually going to Creedmoor....For ANYTHING. There is NEVER any activity around that complex. No traffic in or out. They've been selling off bits and pieces for garden apartments for years. Plus there are pictures online of completely abandoned, dilapidated interior conditions. But looking at the aerial view, It tells a very different story. Clean landscaping, freshly paved parking lots, Tennis and basketball courts, a modern looking rooftop atrium with what looks like swimming pool in it. There are even some gazebos on the right side. Very odd!! Now I'm very curious as to what goes on there, and who uses it?
I know for sure that they was not going to let you in there filming unless you will be on your way to a crazy unit under psycho meds thrown in the quiet room for a couple of days . I'm a old vet from Creed more back in 1976 , from a teenager 16 years ago to 17 years ago. I seen it all and was a victim of everything that went on in there . My name back then was Crazy Aaron . I'm a follower of Jesus Christ today .
@@DronePsyche . I also was a patient at Bronx State Children's Hospital from the time of age 5 years old to 14 years old, this is at 1000 Waters Place in the Bronx , New York City. If you want to tell you about the life I spent and went through in this Bronx State Children's Psychiatric Hospital , just say so but I really would like to tell it to people world wide . My whole life is a very very interesting mind bottling historical experience that any man would never expect another man to live through.
Good morning Rodney. I see you went into my archive 🤣. For some reason people like this one and I wish I knew why because I’d do more of whatever it is I did that I don’t know 🤣🤣
6:09 Stacks were the old coal burning power plant. Until the 1960’s the LIRR freight train brought coal here on a siding branching from Floral Park Station. The track is long gone now.
@@DronePsyche In the 60's, I used to walk the tracks between the Cross Island Parkway and Hillside Ave. As a boy in grammar school (St Gregory the Great School) we would wave at the train as it passed the back of the school. There is very little left remaining that would show the path of the siding. It ran from Floral Park, across Jericho Turnpike/Jamaica Avenue, behind the private homes and passed behind the school. Then under the Cross Island Parkway on its way to Hillside Avenue. It crossed Hillside Avenue and entered the Creedmore property, stopping at the power plant. I believe it delivered coal and other supplies. The RR sold off the property to the homeowners in the late 70's or early 80's. Now the path is hard to trace. It may be possible to see the pattern from the sky above. (It would be interesting to see you attempt this with the drone). I'm very interested in local history and lived in the area for 35 years. I still have old 8mm film showing the RR tracks passing the school and under the parkway. The film also shows a baseball field where the school hall is now. The hall was erected and the school extended in the mid 1960's. I enjoyed your video of the Creedmore facility and surrounds. The old Vanderbilt Motor Parkway passed right by the Creedmore property years ago. It now ends in Alley Pond Park. (Where you were parked). Let me know if you have any further questions regarding the history of the local area. Good luck in future videos. Take care. Be well.
Richard Riesenberg fled Creedmoor in 1977. He was committed for the brutal murder of his wife and son in 1971. 19 year old Judy Brown disappeared with him and has never been found (I came across this video investigating her case)
Where's the rest of the property I don't see it all I see is a tall building do you have any more videos on that subject I thought it was green more after all these years I was there in the 60s my name is Jose Garcia Jr there are buses that passed right by there
I go there all the time for my job . The entire right campus is housing for the mentally ill who are “better” and not in the hospital. It’s also Creedmor. There are many old abandoned buildings you can’t notice. They are just now thinking of using them for affordable housing.
This mental 🏥 🏨 hospital has lot of deadly stories God only know s how sad spirits 😢 roaming around this mental hospital 🏥 😢 I feel very sad I live here 😢
@@artabanestudiodediseno5980 thanks for watching. Actually the movie Awakenings was filmed at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn. They actually used some of the real patients in the movie.
nice video, say I have a story and I am interested in filing a suit against the state. I could use some footage of Central NY Psychiatric Center for a documentary. Wanna make some money?
I grew up in Fresh Meadows. The fact that the city/state is putting migrants in Tents there is nauseating. This is what you get for mostly Democrat rule in the state of NY . Misery and the ruining of the last few nice neighborhoods.
I worked there in the Spring and Summer of 1969. There were some smaller buildings which were part of the Hospital. I was in building L Ward 40 if I remember that right. The wards were arranged by neighborhoods. Anyone who lived in Rego Park and needed psychiatric help was housed in the ward I worked in. I think there were attempts to improve conditions for the patients in those day. I was a psych major at Adelphi when I worked there.
Very interesting!
The site was named after the Creed family, which farmed on the site. It later was used as a firing range from the 1870s till 1892. The Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital was opened on the site in 1912, with 32 patients. By 1959, the hospital housed 7,000 inpatients. The hospital's census declined by the early 1960s, and unused portions were sold off and developed into the Queens County Farm Museum, a school campus, and a children's psychiatric center.
This video I'm familiar with this building thank you for doing your best with what you have
Glad you enjoy it!
My maternal grandmother died there December 20, 1965. She was put there for "mental illness," but in the end they discovered she had an inoperable brain tumor that caused her symptoms. It was a horrible place.
Very sad. May she rest in peace
@@DronePsyche thanks 🥲
@@alicegershuny9661 hopefully they are more humane these days
@@DronePsyche doubtful. I was a psychiatric social worker for 30 years. I don't have much hope 😩
This place is highly haunted
I always thought that this was a very creepy looking building whenever I would drive by it, and the fact that it’s such a big building shows that there are a lot of crazy people in the world.
I believe the campus full of buildings on the other side of union tpke is part of creedmoor. Some are abandoned, interesting architecture, frightening as well. That campus has some ambiance. It looks haunted. I delivered pizzas to the staff in some of those buildings, i could hear the patients screaming like just crazy screaming they were severely mentally ill. So point is that basically all that is part of the mental hospital. Really creepy looking. Would make a good filming location in my opinion. Cool video, for some reason this area and the building is fascinating. Alley pond park has a lot of history as well.
Great landing man!!!!
Thanks!
Creeedmore, like many of the large state hospitals, was a self-sufficient community. It actually stretched on both sides of the Cross Island Parkway and from the main building to Union Turnpike. They were designed to be almost like farming communities with buildings for the patients, as well as laundry, maintenance, staff housing, etc. This page from 2013 has some interesting history as well.. untappedcities.com/2013/01/04/abandoned-creedmoor-psychiatric-center-queens/
Thanks for this additional info. I will be sure to look at it.
@@DronePsyche I grew up in that area and it was still operational back in the 1970's (the entire campus). Here's a documentary about it at the time too. ua-cam.com/video/onVsLd7KoTY/v-deo.html
Will check it out. Thanks again
That’s right. Apollo Creed’s family. Thanks for reminding us.
First four years of my life we were living at the Monte Excelsior (still extant and still popular) the apt. complex that is just east of Creedmore (Or the northern campus of it) in Little Neck. I was researching Creedmore today again for some reason, including some book that came out in 1982 about a schizophrenic patient there, etc., which won a Pulitzer Prize. (Susan Sheehan) Anyway, I read further that by the 50s or 60s the patients outnumbered the staff by far, and, they started to have real problems with the violent wing patients, and the state would start dumping violent criminals right from prison to the hospital and they started to have real issues, major crime, violence, rapes, assaults, etc. would go on into the 70s and even to one infamous incident in 1984 or so where the guards killed some inmate with a blackjack even when the guy was in a straitjacket, apparently. After that, I think the furor got so great that they decided to start closing most of it down. I've read horror tales about Pilgrim State and Kings Park also for years.
None of these places were too great. Snake pits. And then there was the infamous S.I. Willowbrook fiasco that got that place shut down.
I miss that neighborhood! I worked at DSNY for 20 years next door and took my kids to nearby Ally Pond Park.
Awesome. A lot has changed since.
@@DronePsyche I 'm enjoying your footage. I left NYC 4 years ago and moved to Delaware. But this is nostalgic! Btw! @ 7:56 that storage facility is where we kept our salt for our salt spreaders for the winter.
i used to live near this hospital and i always wondered what it was and my mom told me it was a hospital
Now you know 😀
I think the smoke stacks were used when the hospital generated its own power instead of using NYC power back when the hospital was in full operation.
Thanks for the confirmation. That’s what many people have suggested.
Ooooh cool! I’ve always wanted to see how it looks!
And now you know! 😀
It is the old power plant for the property
Thanks. Yes that’s what I’ve been told since. Very interesting.
It's a crematorium ,and also there's a dungeons underneath some of this building,all of those buildings are belong to the hospital,the history also said that the campus was a battlefield, some where at the time of the natives.
Not a crematorium, it's an old power plant not in use anymore . And they are not dungeons, they were once used underground passage ways to transport patients/supplies from one building to the next when it was an enclosed self sufficient complex. Now you know.
I was there 1960 until 1967 witness a lot as a child now 70 years old. Have many triggers help me with this documentary please.
What documentary?
Is there a way to contact you for more detail.
My father was an abused inmate there (he had a massive stroke) till his death in 1956...it was a horror film for my mom to visit every weekend , Dad was frequently burned there.
I was only allowed to see him on his deathbed as I was so young (I think the visiting age was 16) he did smile at me and I thought that he was another man ,not my dad..awful memories.
I returned and documented the place acheiving an arts grant to do so, before they tore the old buildings down in the 1970's. when my dad was a patient there he was( if I remember it correctly) ,one of 11 thousand patients. The emergence of tranquilizers and anti depressant medicines and better outpatient care, in time made these huge mental prisons obsolete.
@@Lalaland-q2z sorry to hear your sad story for your family. Very sad how people were treated all over the country in facilities like these.
I drive by there every day for past 30 years. Grand Central>Winchester>Union Tpk. I always thought that hospital was completely decommissioned for decades. I know a number of acquaintances that have had drug and mental issues over the years. They always wind up in Hillside Medical, South Oaks or Holliswood(closed). I've never heard of anyone actually going to Creedmoor....For ANYTHING. There is NEVER any activity around that complex. No traffic in or out. They've been selling off bits and pieces for garden apartments for years. Plus there are pictures online of completely abandoned, dilapidated interior conditions. But looking at the aerial view, It tells a very different story. Clean landscaping, freshly paved parking lots, Tennis and basketball courts, a modern looking rooftop atrium with what looks like swimming pool in it. There are even some gazebos on the right side. Very odd!! Now I'm very curious as to what goes on there, and who uses it?
Very cool. Apparently it’s still operating as a psychiatric ward as it always has.
What you think is a pool, its a basketball court.
Legendary jazz pianist Earl Rudoph "Bud" Powell (September 27th 1924 - August 1st, 1966) was a patient at Creedmoor for eleven months.
Great info. Thanks!
@@DronePsyche ...Anytime!
There's definitely a common theme in architecture, KPPC 93, Edgewood.
@@mgaeeeee9150 absolutely. Same architect for sure!
fun fact this place was used as a nypd blue police station its hidden inside ,
Really. Good fun fact!
I know for sure that they was not going to let you in there filming unless you will be on your way to a crazy unit under psycho meds thrown in the quiet room for a couple of days . I'm a old vet from Creed more back in 1976 , from a teenager 16 years ago to 17 years ago. I seen it all and was a victim of everything that went on in there . My name back then was Crazy Aaron . I'm a follower of Jesus Christ today .
God Bless You Aaron
@@DronePsyche . I also was a patient at Bronx State Children's Hospital from the time of age 5 years old to 14 years old, this is at 1000 Waters Place in the Bronx , New York City. If you want to tell you about the life I spent and went through in this Bronx State Children's Psychiatric Hospital , just say so but I really would like to tell it to people world wide . My whole life is a very very interesting mind bottling historical experience that any man would never expect another man to live through.
Awesome video Charlie!
Good morning Rodney. I see you went into my archive 🤣. For some reason people like this one and I wish I knew why because I’d do more of whatever it is I did that I don’t know 🤣🤣
@@DronePsyche can't speak for others, but the history you presented peaked my interest.
Good feedback! Thanks Rodney!
6:09 Stacks were the old coal burning power plant. Until the 1960’s the LIRR freight train brought coal here on a siding branching from Floral Park Station. The track is long gone now.
Wow that’s awesome. Love it. I bet there’s something left behind from those tracks.
@@DronePsyche In the 60's, I used to walk the tracks between the Cross Island Parkway and Hillside Ave. As a boy in grammar school (St Gregory the Great School) we would wave at the train as it passed the back of the school. There is very little left remaining that would show the path of the siding. It ran from Floral Park, across Jericho Turnpike/Jamaica Avenue, behind the private homes and passed behind the school. Then under the Cross Island Parkway on its way to Hillside Avenue. It crossed Hillside Avenue and entered the Creedmore property, stopping at the power plant. I believe it delivered coal and other supplies. The RR sold off the property to the homeowners in the late 70's or early 80's. Now the path is hard to trace. It may be possible to see the pattern from the sky above. (It would be interesting to see you attempt this with the drone). I'm very interested in local history and lived in the area for 35 years. I still have old 8mm film showing the RR tracks passing the school and under the parkway. The film also shows a baseball field where the school hall is now. The hall was erected and the school extended in the mid 1960's. I enjoyed your video of the Creedmore facility and surrounds. The old Vanderbilt Motor Parkway passed right by the Creedmore property years ago. It now ends in Alley Pond Park. (Where you were parked). Let me know if you have any further questions regarding the history of the local area. Good luck in future videos. Take care. Be well.
Richard Riesenberg fled Creedmoor in 1977. He was committed for the brutal murder of his wife and son in 1971. 19 year old Judy Brown disappeared with him and has never been found (I came across this video investigating her case)
Never hear about that. Now I will have to research. Thanks for the info
Why were you investigating her case and what did you find?
My mother worked there back in 1970.In the Caffertira
@@JuanCruz-j6d I bet the food was better back then!
@@DronePsyche definitely
Jose Garcia l was there in 1968.
@@chuckscott4661 speech therapy
There is no video on your channel four years of speech therapy
When is the next video
Where's the rest of the property I don't see it all I see is a tall building do you have any more videos on that subject I thought it was green more after all these years I was there in the 60s my name is Jose Garcia Jr there are buses that passed right by there
4:38 shows a rotation around the current property. Sorry this is all the footage I took.
I thought it was abandoned
When was the big high rise building constructed
The ones to the east? Not sure. They’ve been there all my life
Wow, I love what you do. Could I use some of your images of Creedmoor?
I guess. If you could just credit me and send me a link to your production so I can enjoy.
I go there all the time for my job . The entire right campus is housing for the mentally ill who are “better” and not in the hospital. It’s also Creedmor. There are many old abandoned buildings you can’t notice. They are just now thinking of using them for affordable housing.
Wow. Great info. Can you get me in so I can fly the abandoned housing?
This mental 🏥 🏨 hospital has lot of deadly stories God only know s how sad spirits 😢 roaming around this mental hospital 🏥 😢
I feel very sad I live here 😢
That’s horrible 😳😳
You need this video put to larger audience like Twitter
I don’t want attention
Not for u sir people need our help we need to help them sir
Lot of kids teens around the nation they need our help
God bless America
@@senatorofutah the country is already terminally Ill. I just want what’s mine and go. They can have this shithole
Can you try again in the near future I know there's more there this is Jose Garcia creed Moore hospital
That looks like a powerplant. The storage structure probably was used to store coal for the power or steam generating equipment.
Yep that’s the group consensus!
That is the power plant I worked at Creedmoor for almost 30 years
I worked in another department
I knew my uncle use to work there
Cool. Assume he was from the area!
I always want know that place because was location from awakenings movie in 1991
@@artabanestudiodediseno5980 thanks for watching. Actually the movie Awakenings was filmed at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center in Brooklyn. They actually used some of the real patients in the movie.
@@DronePsyche ohh I thought the building showed at the beginning of the movie at minute 4:47 was the Creedmoor
@artabanestudiodediseno5980 now you know 😀
@@DronePsyche thank you
nice video, say I have a story and I am interested in filing a suit against the state. I could use some footage of Central NY Psychiatric Center for a documentary. Wanna make some money?
Hello friend. What is the law suit over? As interesting as it sounds, that facility is over four hours away from where I live.
After he is four or five years I still don't know
is creedmoor hiring right now?
Not sure. But they are always looking for new residents!
@@DronePsychecool thanks!
Hope that helps
@@DronePsyche lmbo
I grew up in Fresh Meadows. The fact that the city/state is putting migrants in Tents there is nauseating. This is what you get for mostly Democrat rule in the state of NY . Misery and the ruining of the last few nice neighborhoods.
Totally agree. 10 more years to retire and I am out of this cesspool
Did they admit you yet?
😍😍😍
Put illegal immigrants in there
I got a better idea. Deport the immigrants
CGI video!
What don’t you mean CGI??