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The tunnels beneath the Edgewood grounds have long been a topic of discussion. Many people
have heard "something about" them, but some of the "Edgewood Fans" were not sure they actually existed.
The truth is they DID exist, and were a very popular hangout with the exploring kids of the day. If you have explored the tunnels and understand their layout, it would be of great help if you were willing to contribute your knowledge to this section of the site. |
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| BENJAMINBREGG 2/15/2008 10:00:16 PM | |
| ANYONE REMEMBER "LARGE MARGE"? | |
| BENJAMINBREGG 2/15/2008 9:54:35 PM | |
| THE DEER PARK "SOLDIERS OF DEATH"...ARE NOW THE "SILLY OLD DELINQUENTS" | |
| BENJAMINBREGG 2/15/2008 9:52:16 PM | |
| PAUL DIANNO, ON COMMACR RD, KFC??....YOUR ON CRACK, RIGHT? | |
| kenrad 12/11/2007 8:29:10 AM | |
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BTW has anyone seen that "silo" mentioned by Banffspring? I've been all over and never saw that. found a few old sewer manholes that go nowhere and you DON'T want to go down there anyway. Edgewood has a lot of TB patients and who knows what lurks in those old pipes.
Manholes along the powerlines are just storm drains... |
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| kenrad 12/11/2007 8:24:05 AM | |
| Who the hell were the other sick bastards in the buildings during Hurricane Gloria? We went up there with some beers to ride out the storm and soon found out we were not alone... after trying the powerhouse via the tunnels we headed up to the crown and the wind was SICK up there... stayed inside the burned out area by the water tanks as the ladder was gone and so was the rope as I recall. Watched tumbleweed blow across the old front lawns!I recall seeing a few other metalheads hanging out... so lets hear it if you were there! | |
| syd 12/8/2007 12:59:38 PM | |
| Tunnels rock. I spent many days and night in the tunnels at Northville Michigan. www.northville-tunnels.com it is cool to see there were others in different states doing the same. Rock On. | |
| banffspring 10/13/2006 2:40:30 PM | |
| Oh yeah, this all happened from a period of August 1986 with random visits till 1988 sept. | |
| banffspring 10/13/2006 2:36:15 PM | |
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Hello.
By the train station (long islang ave.) there is a dirt road parallel of the ground of Edgwater, as you follow within 1.5 / 2 miles in there are thousands of expelled shotgun ( red ) shells laying around. Besides the Ticks and gardner snakes, there to the left is a raised cement square with a rusted hinge that the doors were attached to, this was the southern portion of the tunnel system, all you had to do was follow the power lines and there would be this clearing of woods with shit all around ( cars/parts ect ). Deviate from the dirt road tend towards the left, in the wood line there was a SILO like housing that was another portion of the same tunnel, went down this one. Found bed frames and large metal obstructions, frames and I beams, puddles of stained rust colored water, ( need a flashlight ), follows through the power plant portion that had the Mano war and man on a purple mountain spray painted on the railhead portion. Yeah i had friends with feathered mullets and denim jackets, with malboro cigs. Juveniles we were. Strange thing is that 2 of them ended up in the apple clinic in Pilgrim in 1995. Good times, yet dynamic offsets. Take Ta tak take out my stomach and my my kidneys. Hanging from piano wire from the earlobes, BURNING in Ecstasy. |
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| mudpaws 8/10/2006 10:32:56 AM | |
| Ha ha...that was actually a curiosity of mine, too. Just to hear what all these people are doing with their lives today? Man, I wish I went into this thing, I'm fascinated by stuff like this! Being where I lived though, I never knew Edgewood existed. Great stuff everyone! Hmm, now where can I get a little backhoe to move the cement covers and dig through the tunnel entrances? | |
| aunt ali 6/15/2006 7:13:52 PM | |
| i was reading on this site how everyone cut school and got high in this building, sounds like fun, anyhow is anyone doing anything fundermental with there life... i mean did u guys get jobs....and if so who hired u | |
| tones1965 5/15/2006 6:42:54 PM | |
| I REMEMBER BACKIN THE DAY GOING INTO THE MAIN BUILDING WITH MY FRIENDS ON COMACK ROAD THOSE WHERE THE DAYS. | |
| rotten13 4/10/2006 4:35:54 AM | |
| I remember Dianno walking down Commack Rd. It was me and Joe Davi who saw him, and offered him a ride. He wouldn't take it though. | |
| Paul 2/19/2006 6:09:43 PM | |
| Heh, Paul Di'Anno walking down Commack Rd? Fucking funny I don't remember that but was at that show in 86! | |
| Prodigal Son 8/21/2005 7:22:26 PM | |
| Anyone remember Paul DiAnno walking down Commack Rd looking for Kentucky Fried Chiken? He was staying at the Deer Park Motor Inn while doing a Battle Zone show at Sundance. | |
| Prodigal Son 8/21/2005 6:51:13 PM | |
| Yo Herb ! You owe me ten bucks ! | |
| gmajor723 8/21/2005 1:43:54 PM | |
| my first time in edgewood we hads gone in through the tunnels, i was like 12 yrs old. and we went all the way down to the power plant from the main building nad back. then security showed up anmd we had to run. i was scared shitless. but i never left. that was like in 77' . yo iownit must know you. yo its herb. | |
| relentlessjames 5/4/2005 11:55:19 PM | |
| JMB 4/13/2005 8:14:36 PM | |
| JMB 4/13/2005 8:14:21 PM | |
| Caveman6666 4/12/2005 11:23:07 AM | |
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They're filled with dirt under the slabs.
Those covers ain't going anywhere without heavy construction equipment, and I wouldn't fuck with them anyway; DEC is likely to bust you. |
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| J-B-F 4/7/2005 7:21:30 PM | |
| Abdul | |
| J-B-F 4/7/2005 7:19:26 PM | |
| Faint Sounds of Twisted Sister??,, yeah cause the cement filled tunnels are the only gigs they can get these days | |
| joe 4/7/2005 6:58:11 PM | |
| What kind of food is available? | |
| KenRad 11/26/2004 8:31:38 PM | |
| KenRad 11/26/2004 8:29:25 PM | |
| Went into the tunnels way back in '75 the first time, and the power was still on. They were lit up from end to end, and we found all sorts of crap down there. They were our own way in for years, we kept our own defective lock that you could open up with ANY key on the tunnel doors way off in the woods. We also turned on lights on just about every floor in 102 that still had intact wiring... almost everything worked back then. Later on, they cut power to the complex around late '77 after a fire at the then still-occupied medical staff residences in building 155, which was NOT connected by any tunnels. The power switch for Edgewood was in the old pilgrim Steam plant so we could not turn it back on! I got to know those tunnels so well I would often enter the complex with NO FLASHLIGHT or matches, by myself, and walk back to the building 102 boiler room to enter day or night. Many nights we'd go up, into the mid 80's after a night out at the bars, and scare the crap out of whoever was hanging out up there. Thanks for all the beer some of you lightweights left behind!!! | |
| Lumen 10/31/2004 1:30:31 AM | |
| There were actually tunnels to the main building and to the nurses' quarters. Once got chased by security (think it was L&M Security at the time) into the nurses quarters and had to go from there to the main building with just a book of matches. Ah, youth. | |
| EDGETTE 10/30/2004 12:27:07 PM | |
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The tunnels are real...the first time I went to edgewood was in September of 1985 - Hurricane Gloria caused a power outtage and there was no school - it was the first week of 9th grade at Frost. Anyway, I, along w/ my 2 girlfriends (C.B. and D.C. who had already been there before) met up with the "guys" (our guy pals they practically lived there) at 7-11, grabbed a couple of boxes of matches w/ off the counter and off we went. I don't remember any rats or bugs...then again, I was trying not to look down because whatever little vision you had ahead of you was well needed because there were huge pipes that you had to duck under and straddle over. After making our way through the tunnel, and out into the open air, we had to RUN into the main building because security was there and there was no way they were going in the building....once we were inside we were safe. (but i will save stories of the building for another post)
I am so glad to see that this site is up and running, so many memories! I was one of the few girls in my grade that was into Maiden,Priest,Dio - funny, because I just saw Man-O-War at the Vanderbuilt 2 years ago HEAVY METAL !!!!! |
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| Rotten13 8/15/2004 10:16:13 AM | |
| Manowar!! Whoa!! we were all true soldiers of death. I don't remember these grimer guys either but if we saw them they would have been history. | |
| nuthouse2 6/28/2004 11:04:36 PM | |
| Joe B again;heres an interesting site www.infiltration.org ,also type in google "underground bases and tunnels" for a lot of topics.Everybody wants to keep open space and preserve forests(I know I do;I don't want everything built up),but where do we put all these people? Someday,the only solution will be another planet;but there is no other planet(in this solar system and galaxy);to bad Venus isn't just like Earth was 10,000 years ago. | |
| nuthouse2 6/28/2004 10:50:52 PM | |
| Hello,I'm Joe;Joe B.I use to work at Grumman,Entenmanns,SUNY state colleges,now I'm a bus driver soon to be in a hospital as a full time worker.I'm in the Huntington area.All the time Edgewood hospital was standing,I never went there;only once me and this girl went there,but were told we couldn't stay by security people who must've been guarding the place after all the vandalism over the years. .We could've persisted but we didn't.I did walk on the grounds in the early 90's,and from the former Edgewood site,I went into Pilgrim -there are also tunnels on those grounds;I didn't go in them yet.I see some buildings at Pilgrim state are being torn down;I want to get this hospital on video,because it won't be there much longer probably;since the state wants to build a mini city there.I'm sorry I didn't film Edgewood,but I can film Pilgrim state before it gets demolished by the construction crews.Theres a lot of history at these hospitals(Pilgrim and former Edgewood).I remember a full parking lot in the late 60's at Edgewood,when my father drove by there.SUNY Farmingdale also has tunnels(steam tunnels) and some bomb shelters,but the doors are padlocked.Very interesting down there.Anyone whos interested in tunnels should check out the NY city subway tunnels;I use to film them from the train and also I walked into them a little.Most likely this will be harder now(thanks to the terror attacks,massive security percautions,and sometimes from people that ruin a good thing).Now,it's 2004,and you may not be able to film in the subways anymore(unless you have the camera on and your walking and holding it down by your side and hide the red indicator light).I managed to walk a few hundred feet into the broadway nassau subway station in lower Manhatten ,in the summer of 2002;but I'm sure it's well guarded now. | |
| Jimmy C 5/21/2004 7:47:25 PM | |
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Back in the late 70''s my friends and I used to go into the main building. The ground floor was bricked up so we climbed to the second floor windows and went in. We would go up the stairways to the roof elevator room and walk across a plank that was across the top of the elevator shaft, Then we climbed a ladder to the highest roof. The roof was covered in copper sheets. We used to taunt the security guards by yelling down at thier cars from that roof.
At that time the hospital was still relatively intact. Beds were still in the rooms as well as some gurneys. There was a stainless steel kitchen of some sort on each floor. The elevator motor had a huge brass gear on it. We went into the basement too. The elevator was in the basement with the doors broken open. There was some sort of laboratory in the basement which still had chairs tables and shelves with jars. Behind this room was the entryway to one tunnel but we only travelled halfway through it and never went to the end. One of my friends told me that he had visited a morgue in one of the buildings and it was scary. |
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| uboat commander 4/27/2004 5:10:33 PM | |
| CHAMP in the old days there was power so no big deal to go EAST. | |
| oxygen 4/17/2004 10:03:36 PM | |
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http://www.edgewoodhospital.com/showpicture.asp?ImageName=tunnels%2Ejpg
Tunnel Map... |
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| CHAMP 3/22/2004 7:17:35 PM | |
| EDGEWOOD HAD 2 MAIN TUNNELS THAT LED TO THE EAST WING ... IF YOU WERE EVER IN THE EAST WING ... YOU HAD GUTS | |
| CHAMP 3/22/2004 7:16:29 PM | |
| THE BEST PART OF EDGEWOOD IS THE ACTION IN THE LADIES LOUNGE | |
| iownit 2/28/2004 9:54:16 PM | |
| i love you all |