Cedar Cliff Nursing Home

Cedar Cliff was opened in 1929 as a tuberculosis sanitarium.

In Two Thousand & Nine Construction of the new wing at the county nursing home is now finished and awaiting final safety inspection by the state. Should the building pass the inspection, residents are expected to begin moving into the wing within four to six weeks.

The new facility, which has been under construction for three years, is meant to replace two Depression-era buildings that are overcrowded, dank, and cheerless. The goal has been to bring all of 342 current residents under one roof and to create enough space so that the Nursing Home can expand the number of beds to 406.

 Cedar Cliff provides both long-term and short-term care for both the indigent elderly and people with a variety of disabilities, including Multiple Sclerosis.

In the old buildings, some residents are currently living four to a room and sharing community bathrooms that are not accessible to the handicapped; such residents must be assisted onto toilets. The dining room is a cramped, drab place, with room for about a half-dozen card tables with metal folding chairs.

By contrast, the residence rooms in the new wing are bright and pastel-colored and will be occupied by no more than two people per room. Each room has its own wheelchair-accessible bathroom and the beds are separated by a wall, which allows a resident to control the temperature on their side of the room. The dining room is now a big, wide-open space that invites residents to congregate.

As for the Old Building, The Fate is Unknown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

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The Sisters Home

From its beginnings in 1880 as a farmhouse on the fields of a Farm purchased by the Sisters of the Divine for the purpose of establishing a home for the disenfranchised, The Sisters Home has grown to be recognized as the premier nursing care facility and faith-based residence in the Greater Tri-state region. The Sister Home currently serves more than 700 older residents, many of whom are the underserved poor in the community. Although expanding and adapting its services to meet modern realities, the mission of Home has remained steadfastly the same: to provide compassionate and excellent care that promotes wellness, enhances quality of life and embraces diversity. The story of Home is more about the legacy of the Sisters of the Divine than it is about the bricks and mortar of the building itself. The Sisters of the Divine, devoted to service and committed to the dignity of each person, have quietly and steadfastly served this community for more than 130 years.

In 1985, the campus expanded with the opening of a New Building and for the Continuing Care Retirement Community. The New Sisters Home encourages wellness and autonomy through independent and assisted living experiences that keep the mind, body and soul active. While founded and co-sponsored to this day by the Sisters of the Divine, The New Sisters Home is like The Old Sisters Home, a place where people of many faith traditions live and learn together as a community of friends.

Now the Old Sisters of the Divine Home sits Vacant.

 

 

 

 

  

   

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Building 25

 

 Early history of the site
BLDG25 stands on land that was a farm owned by the Creed family. A railroad which ran from Long Island City to Bethpage had a stop close to the campus.

In 1870, the New York State Legislature purchased a part of the Creed farm and a parcel of an adjacent National Rifle Association range to house the New York State National Guard. Several international rifle tournaments and technical improvements resulting in longer range bullets resulted in numerous complaints from surrounding residents. As a result the range was abandoned until 1912.


History of the hospital
In 1912, the Farm Colony of Brooklyn State Hospital was opened, with 32 patients, by the Lunacy Commission of New York State, reflecting a trend towards sending the swelling population of urban psychiatric patients to the fresh air of outlying areas. By 1918, BLDG25 own census had swollen to 150, housed in the abandoned National Guard barracks. By 1959, the hospital housed 7,000 inpatients. BLDG25 is described as a crowded, understaffed institution in Susan Sheehan's Is There No Place On Earth For Me? (1982), a biography of a patient pseudonymously called Sylvia Frumkin. Dr. Lauretta Bender, child neuropsychiatrist, has been reported as practicing there in the 1950s and '60s.

The hospital's census had declined by the early 1960s, however, as the introduction of new medications, along with other factors, led to the deinstitutionalization of many psychiatric patients around the world. In 1975, the land in Glen Oaks formerly used to raise food for the hospital was opened to the public as the Queens County Farm Museum. Another part of the campus in Glen Oaks was developed into the Queens Children's Psychiatric Center. In 2004, the remaining part of the campus land in Glen Oaks was developed into the Glen Oaks public school campus, including The Queens High School of Teaching. By 2006, other parts of the  campus had been sold and the inpatient census was down to 470.There are several disused buildings on the property, including the long-abandoned Building 25

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Insane Hospital

This Insane hospital started out as a county poor house. On September 29, 1938 the State of PA took control of the hospital as part of the "Full State Care Act". The legislature assumed responsibility for eight of the thirteen existing county public mental hospitals; the other five hospitals were closed. In 1971 a juvenile detention center took over a couple buildings at the hospital for six years before moving on to better accommodations. By 1979, the total statewide state hospital census was reduced to 10,573 patients and resulted in the closure of several state hospitals; This Insane Hospital was closed in 1980.

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