Abandoned Creedmoor

From Huffington Post:

When Creedmoor was founded in 1912, its most effective cures were thought to be fresh air and physical labor. Yet as time passed the patient count exploded, rising from 150 in 1918 to over 7,000 in 1960.

Not surprisingly the facility became far less idyllic than it once was, morphing into a legendary hell hole with hygiene levels plummeting to unthinkable lows.

"By the latter years of the 19th century, they had already become bywords for squalor and negligence, and were often run by inept, corrupt, or sadistic bureaucrats -- a situation that persisted through the first half of the 20th century," neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote in a book on Creedmoor's devolution.

After a dysentery outbreak in the 1940s, the hospital came under examination. By the 1970s Creedmore was out of control, tallying rapes, assaults, suicides and shootings that took place under its roof. After a police investigation in 1974, the center reduced its patient count significantly, ultimately closing Building 25. The structure itself is still standing there to this day, however, remaining as an ominous reminder of when "problem people" were simply locked away.