Rockland State Hospital (2017 Visit) Part #2

Abandoned ward interior at Rockland State Hospital, paint peeling from the walls and debris across the floor.

My second visit to the institution I had already known beforehand that someone had torched certain sections of the children's ward. I saw all the fire damage in person to my dismay. I would never understand why someone would either torch a place for no reason at all or play around with fire inside old buildings to create that "shot". However, nefarious the reason I came back with my good friend A.

I found my way inside the famous bowling alley so many others have come to see. I also gained access to the main auditorium which was completely spotless from any graffiti or mounds of garbage. On the other hand, things became a lot worst inside the small auditorium inside the children's ward if you look back at my visit in 2016. It was inside here that we met other explorers taking in the ward. My friend A collaborated expeditiously into a portrait session and we were on our way less we get caught with the newcomers. Local police are known to patrol the campus frequently.

In summary, the campus remained quite opened and I had seen all that was to be explored within the sprawling center.

Fire-damaged section of the children's ward at Rockland State Hospital, walls and ceiling blackened by the blaze.
Burned-out room in the children's ward at Rockland State Hospital, charred debris heaped on the floor.
Long abandoned corridor at Rockland State Hospital, doors standing open along its length.
Interior of a Rockland State Hospital building showing fallen plaster and daylight through broken windows.
Empty institutional room at Rockland State Hospital, fittings stripped and surfaces weathered.
The bowling alley room at Rockland State Hospital, the lanes and pin decks still in place.
The Bowling Alley Room
Abandoned interior space at Rockland State Hospital, graffiti-free walls and scattered debris.
Main auditorium at Rockland State Hospital, rows of seating clear of graffiti and garbage.
Upper-level seating in the main auditorium at Rockland State Hospital, looking down toward the stage.
Upper-Level Seating
Projector room above the main auditorium at Rockland State Hospital, the projection ports facing the hall.
Projector Room
Front stage of the main auditorium at Rockland State Hospital, the proscenium intact.
Front Stage of Main Auditorium
Abandoned interior at Rockland State Hospital, light falling across an emptied room.
📋 Reader Records
🎳 Did you use the bowling alley or the auditorium?

Were you a patient or a member of staff at Rockland State Hospital, or did your family work on the campus? Programs and film schedules from the main auditorium, league sheets or scorecards from the bowling alley, staff photographs and ward records would all help date these rooms. Anything about when the fire in the children's ward happened is especially welcome. Full credit given to all contributors.

⬇️ Keep Reading
🏛️ The rest of Rockland, and other emptied hospitals
The first visit, the children's ward, and asylums and hospitals elsewhere in New York.
🏚️ Rockland State Hospital (2016 Visit) Part #1 The first visit, before the fire. Sixty acres of the grounds went to a JPMorgan Chase data center. › 🧸 Rockland State Hospital - Children's Ward/Quarters Everyone heads straight for this building. Toys still on the playroom floor, murals destroyed. › 🏛️ Kings Park Psychiatric Center: The Abandoned Long Island Asylum The basement murals are said to be the work of a former patient, cartoonist Percy Crosby. › 🐟 Inside the Abandoned Neponsit Beach Hospital: Sun, Sand, and Secrets (Queens, NY) Around 300 goldfish were living in the flooded subbasement. Rescuers moved them out. › 🛏️ Greenpoint Nurses' Residence: Inside Brooklyn's Abandoned Quarters Where the nurses slept at 300 Skillman Ave is becoming a 200-bed shelter. › 🏥 St. Mary's Hospital Ongoing Renovation The Brooklyn DA went after the contractor for allegedly shorting workers $100,000. ›
📍 Rockland State Hospital opened in Orangeburg, New York, in 1931 and still operates in part as the Rockland Psychiatric Center. This is the second of three visits to the closed buildings on the campus.

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