Court won’t hear emergency appeal to stop Greystone demolition

The main building at Greystone, a former psychiatric hospital that treated patients for more than a century. Photo by Berit Ollestad
The main building at Greystone, a former psychiatric hospital that treated patients for more than a century. Photo by Berit Ollestad
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PARSIPPANY — A state appeals court has refused to hear a preservation group’s emergency appeal to delay the demolition of the old Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, which began today. As scheduled, the work began at the 675,000-square-foot Kirkbride Building, constructed in 1876. “We started taking apart part of a roof on the structure,” said Joseph Perone,…

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  1. Future generations will lament the loss of any part of this building and wonder how our generation could have let this happen.

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