New York City Farm Colony/Sea View

The New York City Farm Colony was a poorhouse operated out of Staten Island during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The colony took up acres of land on Staten Island, and many buildings, long since vacated, are still standing, slowly succumbing to the tests of time.

Sea View Hospital, part of the Farm Colony (and the part of the Farm Colony featured in this blog post), is featured heavily in its present decrepit state in the documentary Cropsey, coming out in 2010, about alleged serial killer Andre Rand, who is blamed for the disappearance of several Staten Island children (many developmentally disabled) in the 1980s.

Signs of vandalism are everywhere.

And vandalism is mixed with eerie reminders of what the buildings were originally used for – as a place to house the homeless and those suffering from tuberculosis.

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