Untapped Cities

Photography of Abandoned Resorts of the Catskills’ Borscht Belt at the LES Jewish Conservancy

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 ...
Untapped Cities

Remnants of the Abandoned Catskill Game Farm – America’s First Private Zoo

The remains of America’s first and largest privately-owned zoo – the Old Game Farm are situated in the Catskill Region about two and a half hours from New York City, off State Route 32. Once housing ...
Sun Sentinel

The Borscht Belt is burning: Catskills’ abandoned resorts keep catching fire

(New York Jewish Week) — On a cold night, 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, ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

The Catskills: Nature, history and hidden stories of New York’s mountains

CHANNEL FIVE. CATSKILLS IS SPECIAL BECAUSE IT IS SO PROTECTED. IT’S NEVER GOING TO BE THE HAMPTONS. IT IS A PHENOMENAL COMBINATION OF FOREVER WILD AND THEN A BURNING INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC ...
Times Union

‘Quite a miracle’: How a man survived falling into an abandoned Catskill cement silo

Crews executed a daring recovery mission in the dark at the vacant Lehigh Cement Company plant on Friday in Catskill. Crews executed a daring recovery mission in the dark at the vacant Lehigh Cement ...