This is the story of an area of 250 square miles, approximately an hour-and-a-half drive northwest of New York City, which over the course of the last century became a resort phenomenon unlike any ...

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 ...

Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel was once the gem of the borscht belt, a bucolic mountain hideaway whose summertime community welcomed generations of New Yorkers and inspired the 1987 film “Dirty ...

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 ...