From “The Ruins of the Borscht Belt” exhibit. Photo by Marisa Scheinfeld The once glorious summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in the parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster are now in ruins. Hotel ...
For Jerry Klinger, preserving the history of the Borscht Belt isn’t about nostalgia for summers past. In fact, he never visited the Catskills until a few years ago, long after its fabled resorts had ...
ELLENVILLE, N.Y. —The new Catskills Borscht Belt Museum seeks to tell the story of the many resorts that once dotted the Southwestern corner of Ulster County and across Sullivan County from the 1910s ...
Wawarsing, N.Y. — For the second time in a year, a fire blazed through an iconic former resort in the Catskills. Now, lovers of the shuttered Borscht Belt hotel are mourning what could be the final ...
Wawarsing, N.Y. — For the second time in a year, a fire blazed through an iconic former resort in the Catskills. Now, lovers of the shuttered Borscht Belt hotel are mourning what could be the final ...