A concrete diving platform extends over the deep end of the pool, its ladder shorn away long ago. Outside of the Natatorium, tennis courts have turned forests. Just beyond them, you can see Grossinger's golf course, which is still in use today, its pristine fairways and perfectly manicured greens providing a bizarre backdrop to the devastation you walk through.
Probably the only other thing truly worth seeing is the hotel's lobby and ballroom. Though stripped of its wall coverings and fixtures, it still maintains some of its former glory, with its twin staircases, yawning fireplaces and checkerboard ceiling.
Someone has broken an entry door from its hinges; the entire room is illuminated by the ghostly sliver of light that pours through the open doorway. At the other end of the room, the glass of a bay window has been spray painted.
The rays of light that travel through it carry the warm reds and oranges of the medium they flow through. It is a very sad place: You hear nothing other than the occasional groans and creaks of decomposition and ruin, and the occasional whir of a car driving by on the roads below the resort.
It's hard to imagine the beehive of activity it used to be in its heyday, and even harder to imagine it ever coming to life again. Pablo Maurer writes about soccer as well as abandoned places for DCist.
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