Pilgrim Today
Today, the much smaller Pilgrim Psychiatric Center is the last of the state institutions still operating on Long Island. The farm was sold, the land developed, and it became the Western Campus of the Suffolk County Community College in 1974.
Gerald Wolkoff bought the property's 462 acres (1.87 km2) for $21 million in 2002 and announced a plan to build a $4 billion residential/office complex, called Heartland Town Center, on the site which borders his Heartland Business Park, which is to the west of the complex. In preparation, several former hospital buildings were demolished in 2003, however, rebuilding has not yet begun. In 2011, the former housing facilities for the hospital staff were demolished in further preparation of redevelopment. Demolition of the old medical/surgical building, male and female admissions buildings and the old administration building was completed in 2012.
On July 1, 2009 Dr. Anand D. Nadkarni M.D. retired after 27 years of state service. Dr. Nadkarni had worked as an Attending Psychiatrist from 1987 to 1994, when he moved to take on supervisory positions. He eventually became the Chief of Psychiatry. During his tenure at Pilgrim, Dr. Nadkarni also had his own Private Practice and worked for the Town of Islip. He currently serves as the Medical Director for ACCESS/ACCESSO, an Alcohol & Drug Counseling Center in Islip.
Pilgrim Psychiatric Center hosts a museum, which displays items from Kings Park, Central Islip, Pilgrim, and Edgewood, such as photos, newsletters, relics from abandoned and demolished buildings, and other historical information.\ Located in Building 45 contact Al Cebelli the head of the museum
Another proposed project for the site is the Pilgrim Intermodal Freight Transportation Center, which would be a facility for transloading freight from trains to trucks. It would be built on a 120-acre (0.49 km2) tract owned by the state and use a rail siding of the Long Island Rail Road that previously carried freight and visitors to the hospital.
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