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PHOTOS: Wintery Look at Kings Park Psych Center

Patch reader Thomas Gillen offers a black-and-white perspective at Kings Park Psych Center and Nissequogue State Park through a 35mm.

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Patch reader Tom Gillen, of Commack, dusted off his old 35mm film camera, a Canon AE-1 from 1986, and headed out to take photos. 

Gillen capture the wintery, almost eerie, beauty of Kings Park Psych Center and the Nissequogue River State Park over the last few weeks in the photos seen above. 

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Demolition of 19 buildings at the former Kings Park Psychiatric Hospital has started and starting with the most dilapidated buildings slated for demolition first. 

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