Kings Park NY Review

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 later since they shut down to this day the KPPC was abandoned. 

No one wanted to knock them down the buildings because they are filled with asbestos. 

Many urban explorers globally travel to go inside the spooky abandoned insane asylum. 

Kings Park is right on the water and The Bluff is a popular place to get a view of the Long Island sound. 

At night time you can the lights from Connecticut. 

If you decided to walk left for a 30-minute hike you would be at Sunken Meadow state park. 

A large beach that also featured 1,266 acres for parks, picnics & golfing. 

Kings Park or Smithtown Unique area is 69 acres of pure green forest. 

As I mentioned in the beginning the town was named appropriately. 

There is far more park than there is anything else.

- Lawrence E. Orient