Last year, as I stood in the ruins of the Nevele Hotel, memories flooded back despite the devastation around me. Every surface is covered in graffiti, roofs have caved in throughout the property, and ...

On a cold night last week, Barbara Hoff, the owner of an antique store in the Catskills, heard from a friend in the local fire department that the Nevele Grand Hotel was burning. Hoff, who lives in ...

The owners at the Brown's Hotel named their club after the comedian maestro Jerry Lewis (top inset), who performed there (main). The resorts were proving ground for legends such as Jackie Mason ...

As the Town of Fallsburg’s building inspector, Allen Frishman witnessed the bulldozing of countless dilapidated hotels and bungalow colonies that dotted the Catskill Mountains. But realizing he was ...

In the mid-20th century, New York’s Catskills were the place to be in the summer months. From the 1920s through the 1990s, those looking for a getaway retreated to one of the hundreds of resorts, ...

For many Jewish New Yorkers, summer once meant fleeing city crowds and heading to the Catskill Mountains. Over the weekend, hundreds of people gathered in Ellenville for a festival celebrating the ...

THOMPSONVILLE — Workers used a crane on Friday to hoist onto a flatbed truck a heavy relic of the Borscht Belt heyday of the Catskills: a sculpture that stood for decades outside the former Schenk's ...

“The Borscht Belt Historical Markers Project” is dedicating markers in South Fallsburg, Kiamesha Lake, Hurleyville, Bethel and Woodridge this summer. (New York Jewish Week) – The Borscht Belt, the ...

A talented and committed group of locals, artists, and historians are preserving the rich history of the Borscht Belt with a new series of historical markers and cultural programming. The broad goal ...

(JTA) — Last year, as I stood in the ruins of the Nevele Hotel, memories flooded back despite the devastation around me. Every surface is covered in graffiti, roofs have caved in throughout the ...

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