A new marker was installed this spring at the Central Islip State Hospital Cemetery, the once-forgotten burial ground that served the shuttered Central Islip Psychiatric Center. Credit: Rick Kopstein ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Many on Long Island have long wondered, what's with all those historic abandoned buildings near the courthouse in Central Islip? The answer is they were part of ...

Rabbi Melvyn Lerer addressing visitors at a prayer service Sunday for patients of the former Central Islip State Hospital buried in a cemetery now being restored.

After the Central Islip hospital closed, the state fenced off the cemetery, restricted public access and provided mowing and cleanup.

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- The New York Institute of Technology is selling most of its college campus in Central Islip. The area near the federal court complex and Long Island Ducks ...

The other seven stops on the Heines Homestead trail include a replica of Central Islip’s first one-room schoolhouse built in 1861 — and the old hospital gate from the Central Islip State ...

In the late1970s, Central Islip‘s future looked as bleak as the enormous psychiatric hospital disintegrating in its heart. Once the community’s largest employer and the second largest ...

As recently reported in these pages, big changes are planned for the former Central Islip State Hospital complex, which has been undergoing a dramatic transformation over the last three decades ...

After the Central Islip hospital closed, the state fenced off the cemetery, restricted public access and provided mowing and cleanup.