40-year old chimney above psychiatric centre succumbs to blast.
It took only 11 seconds for the 220-foot-tall smokestack on the former Kings Park Psychiatric Center property to crumble to the ground on Wednesday. The smoke stack was more than 40 years old.
The implosion of the stack, which is next to the center’s old power plant, or Building 29, drew large crowds throughout the KPPC that is now known as Nissequogue River State Park. The center closed in 1996, and 10 years later Sen. John Flanagan (R-East Northport) secured $29 million in state funds to improve the park.
In early 2012, Gov. Andrew Cuomo budgeted $22.5 million for the park with $15 million set aside for a demolition project and last March, the state Parks Department awarded an Indiana-based company a contract to demolish 19 structures on the property.
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