@nyunfilter: This is an educational video about Parksville, New York, a hamlet in the town of Liberty, Sullivan County. Parksville grew around the Ontario & Western Railway in the early 1900s. The railroad brought tourists from New York City into the Catskills. At its peak, the hamlet had more than a hundred hotels and resorts, and traffic jams were common in the town center. The O&W was abandoned in 1957. After the railroad closed, Parksville survived on automobile traffic from Route 17, which ran directly through the hamlet. In 2011, the New York State Department of Transportation opened a bypass that routed traffic around Parksville instead of through it, as part of upgrading Route 17 to Interstate 86 standards. Businesses dependent on passing traffic declined sharply. One gas station owner reported monthly revenue falling from $119,000 to $25,000. By 2020, most storefronts in Parksville were empty. This is a factual presentation of documented historical events. 📍 Parksville, Sullivan County, New York #Catskills #SullivanCounty #HiddenHistory #AbandonedPlaces #NewYorkHistory

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