Nevele Grand Hotel

41°42′04″N 74°24′11″W  /  41.701°N 74.403°W  / 41.701; -74.403 The Nevele Grande Hotel was a high rise resort hotel located just outside of Ellenville , NY which closed its doors in 2009. The Nevele dates back to the days of the Borscht Belt . “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore, after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered waterfall within its present-day property. Its property included a once highly regarded 18 hole golf course and a 9 hole golf course which are also closed and have fallen into disrepair . Originally named simply, "Nevele," the resort was renamed the Nevele Grande when it merged with the adjacent Fallsview resort. President Lyndon Johnson once stayed at the Nevele, to dedicate a new hospital in Ellenville in 1966. By 2006 the Nevele Grande had fallen on hard times and the Fallsview property was sold off. The Fallsview has since reopened as the Honors Haven Resort and Spa. The original Nevele property, containing a distinctive high rise building, remained open for several years after the split as the Nevele Grande resort. Owners Mitchell Wolff and Joel Hoffman struggled financially and failed to pay taxes and eventually shut down the resort down without notice after the 2009 Fourth of July weekend. On September 1, 2009, an auction of the property was canceled the day before it was to occur because a buyer was allegedly found. However, by the time the auction was scheduled the property had fallen into a state of disrepair, including "musty staircases and rooms, big and small, with odd smells wafting out of them." . The hotel remained unsold months later, although Hoffman was still attempting to generate revenue with a deal to sell timber on 100 acres of property. He also renewed an agreement to let Nextel put cell phone antennas atop one of the hotel's buildings. On March 26, 2010, New York State Supreme Court Judge Mary Work granted Wolff ownership of the hotel in light of Hoffman's failure to pay Wolff an earlier $2m judgment. The initial dispute arose when Wolff sold Hoffman 99% control of the hotel in exchange for lifetime health benefits, a deal which Hoffman almost immediately reneged. Judge Work described Hoffman's mismanagement of the hotel "staggering," and lauded him in court for failure to be forthcoming. The judgment named Xinjiang Daming, one of China's largest mining companies, as a potential buyer, but there have been no new public developments in any potential sale since.

41°42′04″N 74°24′11″W  /  41.701°N 74.403°W  / 41.701; -74.403 The tower and pool in 1977 The Nevele Grande Hotel (NEV-uh-lee) was a high rise resort hotel located in Wawarsing, New York , United States, just outside Ellenville, New York ; it closed in 2009. The Nevele dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt , opening in 1901. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore , after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within its present-day property. Its property included a once highly regarded 18- hole golf course and a 9-hole golf course which are also closed and have fallen into disrepair.

The tower and pool in 1977 Former Hotel in New York The Nevele Grande Hotel (NEV-uh-lee) was a high rise resort hotel located in Wawarsing, New York , United States, just outside Ellenville, New York ; it closed in 2009. The Nevele dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt , opening in 1901. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backwards — according to lore , after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within the present-day property. And according to family lore, the founder Charles Slutsky had had eleven children from 1880-1906 and the name might have came from that instead. The hotel closed in 2009. A June 2020 report indicated that the "buildings remain, falling apart and with no future of reuse ... there are plans to tear down the remaining structures on the property and turn it into a sports complex". The property included a once highly regarded 18- hole golf course and a 9-hole golf course which are closed and have fallen into disrepair.

Former Hotel in New York The Nevele Grande Hotel (NEV-uh-lee) was a high rise resort hotel located in Wawarsing, New York , United States, just outside Ellenville, New York ; it closed in 2009. The Nevele dated back to the days of the Borscht Belt , opening in 1901. “Nevele” is “Eleven” spelled backward — according to lore — after the eleven nineteenth-century schoolteachers who discovered a waterfall within the present-day property. Also (according to family lore), the founder, Charles Slutsky, had eleven children from 1880 to 1906 and the name might have come from that instead. The hotel closed in 2009. A June 2020 report indicated that the "buildings remain, falling apart and with no future of reuse ... there are plans to tear down the remaining structures on the property and turn it into a sports complex." The property included a once-highly-regarded 18- hole golf course and a 9-hole golf course. The 18-hole course has fallen into disrepair, while the 9-hole is being operated by Honors Haven as the Fallsview Golf Course. Fires in March 2024 and January 2025 destroyed or damaged some of the remaining buildings on the property.