Kings Park is very appropriate name considering all of the Long Island Towns . Outside of TJ Max, Chase bank and a main street its mostly… well, like a park. Before I go into further detail about Kings Park , take note the town is a total of 6,000 acres. Out of all the towns within the Township of Smithtown Kings Park is by far the least commercialized. Kings Park is most famous for Kings Park Psychiatric Center or “KPPC”. In the year 1900 was KPPC had almost 3,000 patients and employed nearly 500 employees. By 1954 Kings Park Psychiatric Center peaked over 9,000 patients! In 1967 Ronald Reagan signed the Lanterman Petris Short Act which began a massive domino effect closing down psychiatric center’s nationwide. In 1996 KPPC was shut down. A lot of locals lost their jobs and many mental patients went back into society. To this day you can drive through Kings Park to see mentally ill people walking around the town. Over 2 decades
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