Greystone has been demolished as of 2015.
**2014 UPDATE**
The state continues to try to push a demolition of the entire Greystone Park complex, including the Kirkbride building! Please visit: [ Ссылка ] for more information!
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Please be advised, the police patrol the hospital grounds SEVERAL times daily and WILL make arrests. We personally know at least one person who was arrested at Greystone before and have read online anecdotes of people being arrested just for being too close to the building (not even for going in!). There is also full electricity to most parts of the building and possibly alarms. We have also heard reports of exterior surveillance cameras on the premises.
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Enjoy the video and here is some history.
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital originally opened on August 17th, 1876 to ease overcrowding at a nearby Lunatic Asylum located in Trenton, NJ. Previously known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown, the hospital would later be renamed to Greystone in 1924. The hospital came to be after Dorothea Dix, a nurse, lobbied for better healthcare of the mentally ill. Construction of the asylum began in 1871 under the Kirkbride building plan, which was to create comfortable living quarters for the mentally ill to allow for plenty of fresh air and sunshine for their rehabilitation. At one point, the original Kirkbride building had the largest continuous foundation of any building in the United States! There are several miles of tunnels running beneath the basement of the facilities that were used to transport various supplies over the campus. The buildings as well as the foundation were built using as little wood as possible and instead focused on using stone and brick as to prevent the spread of fires. Not surprisingly, just a few years after opening Greystone quickly became just as overcrowded as its counterpart in Trenton. Originally only built to accommodate 600 patients, more than 800 patients were residing at Greystone just after it's opening. Over the next few decades the hospital scrambled to build additional housing to make room for the already overflowing dormitories. By 1914, a facility with an absolute maximum limit of 1,600 patients was bursting at its seams with well over 2,000. By the 1950's and 1960's, Greystone had gained quite the negative reputation. The hospital was packed with nearly 8,000 patients with varying degrees of mental illness. Greystone later gained the infamous nickname of "Gravestone" due to the inhumane treatment of it's patients. One of its most famous residents was Woody Guthrie who actually was visited by Bob Dylan during his stay! Guthrie suffered from Huntingdon's Disease, a genetic neurodegenerative disease that was not well understood at the time of him being admitted to Greystone. Towards the 1970's and 1980's, significant improvements in mental health care lead towards the de-institutionalizing of many mental asylums. Many of the buildings on the hospital campus were slowly being vacated, and left to deteriorate as other parts of the buildings were still in use. The year 2008 was the end of the line for the original Kirkbride building at Greystone, as a newer and more modern facility was built not far and the last of the patients were transferred out. Movements towards preserving the more than century old building at Greystone have been going forward. We sincerely hope that these efforts are successful as Greystone is not only a beautiful building, but also it is important to preserve the building for it's historical significance and remember the huge strides we have made in the mental health field.
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Other music - Can also be found on newgrounds. I do not have the direct link unfortunately.
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