Stabilizing Central Islip was my principal goal ... 800 units of affordable and senior citizen housing, some of it in recycled hospital buildings. In the past few years a $190 million federal ...

what's with all those historic abandoned buildings near the courthouse in Central Islip? The answer is they were part of a sprawling state hospital that opened in 1889, and there are finally big ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- The New York Institute ... For nearly 100 years it was a state hospital before being taken over by NYIT. Now, its 100 acres are being sold.

Madigan tracked his great-great grandfather, Napoleon Hedemark, to the Central Islip hospital in the late 1800s; he died there in 1916, he said. Madigan told Newsday he approached the state office ...

A worker uses a weed hacker to clear the grounds at the Central Islip State Hospital Cemetery, the once-forgotten burial ground that served the shuttered Central Islip Psychiatric Center.

The cemetery is all that remains of the hospital, which was opened in 1889. The cemetery holds the graves of an estimated 5,500 former patients from not only the Central Islip facility ...