We explored Grossinger a total of 3 days because it is so huge and there is so much there to see. Once a luxurious resort for the Jewish bourgeoisie, Grossinger was equipped with pretty much every amenity you can think of – indoor pool, bowling alley, ballroom, iceskating rink, you name it. Grossinger closed down in 1986 and has remained abandoned ever since.
We parked down the street in the neighboring shops, never had any issues so we kept using it as our go to parking spot. The fence is open in a few places but you can also just enter through the back, theres a path that joggers from the community run on sometimes. The first building we explored at Grossinger was a white cabin, but it was so creepy and had unexplainable bad vibes that we didn’t stay in that building very long or go back to the white cabin any of the other visits to Grossinger. To this day I don’t know what it was that made me feel this way but sometimes you just have to trust your gut.
Grossinger is an erie place with sounds of slamming doors and the howling of the wind. It is dark and wet inside the buildings, lit only where there are windows, and in some areas the ceilings or floors are completely or partially caved-in. After seeing the white cabin we explored the rest of the grounds, we went to the kitchen/big dining area, and from there entered one of the buildings with atleast 6 floors of hotel rooms, we went up to the rooftop of that building and walked to the indoor pool before heading home. This being our initial visit, we were able to map out in our heads the layout of the space so we have a better idea of where to go the next time we went to Grossinger. Ariel views from googlemaps also came in handy with navigating our way around.
On our second visit to Grossinger, we explored the buildings with hotel rooms in greater detail, looking into each room and seeing what may have been left behind. This time around we found the outdoor pool and iceskating rink. We were sometimes restricted by unstable floors and at times we went pretty high up we didn’t want to risk falling through. Some building we didn’t even go into because they looked so caved-in. Every time we went back we saw something new. The third time back at Grossinger we went down to the basement of the pool where we found the showers and sauna. We also found the bar, which had been pretty much destroyed at that point.
To this day Grossinger remains one of my favorite urban exploring destinations. Its huge, theres so much to explore, it is a beautiful forgotten world, left behind by humans and taken back by nature.
URBAN EXPLORING ABANDONED BUILDINGS 