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By Heather Rolland on Friday, Jun. 17, 2016 - 11:36 am
Above: The ruins of the Overlook Mountain House. Photo by Alan Via.
Trees growing in the ballroom? Porcupine teeth marks on the fuselage? In addition to scenic views and cascading waterfalls, many Catskills trails and roadways boast abandoned ruins and... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 - 4:41 pm
Above: The abandoned Apollo Mall in Monticello, New York, photographed on February 20, 2013. Photo by Catskills Photography and shared in the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
Bottom: A short video about the Apollo Mall posted on Dead Malls.com.
The former... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 - 12:06 pm
A reminder that nature always gets you in the end. Overgrown coal silos photographed in Callicoon on Saturday. Photo by Flickr user John of Catskills Photography, via the Watershed Post Flickr pool.
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By Lissa Harris on Monday, Jun. 6, 2011 - 8:13 pm
Adam Bosch of the Times Herald-Record reports that the disintegrating Nevele Grande, once the pride and joy of the Borscht Belt, has just had its tax assessment cut by two-thirds:
The 433-room hotel had been valued at $15 million, but town assessor Mike... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 9:03 am
Above: A photo of one of the many scenes of the abandoned Grossinger's resort.
The first time Jonathan Haeber heard of Grossinger's, he was reading Maus, the acclaimed graphic novel about the Holocaust by Art Spiegelman. Part of the story is set at the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 - 2:36 pm
Photographer Rusty Tagliareni is coming out with a book, he writes on LiveJournal, that will include some photographs of abandoned Catskills resorts. Yesterday, he posted a some images of one of the resorts, along with some tantalizing commentary:
The... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010 - 4:20 pm
Fans of the TV show "Life After People" would probably enjoy the Catskills. It seems you can't spit in these mountains without hitting an abandoned movie theatre, a decaying bungalow colony, a depopulated resort, or an entire zoo being swallowed up by the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 - 2:39 pm
Flickr user jeffs4653 snapped this photo of the historic Center Theatre -- which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places -- in June. The old movie theater is in Woodbourne, in Sullivan County, which was apparently close enough to the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Wednesday, Jun. 30, 2010 - 4:28 pm
Scott Haefner, a San Francisco-based photographer who specializes in 360-degree panoramic images of abandoned places, recently turned his lens on the Grossinger's hotel near Liberty, NY. While he was there, he got took a panoramic portrait of the now-... Read more
