On August 11th, the LES Jewish Conservancy will show Marisa Scheinfeld’s Ruins of the Borscht Belt photography exhibition of abandoned resorts in the Catkills.

Since then, the hotel has remained gutted and abandoned. Once the crown jewel of the Catskills' "Borscht Belt," this ...

It was once dazzled with laughter, entertaining stages, and a unique cultural identity, but it had an unfortunate past.

This illustrated webinar features Marisa Scheinfeld’s photographs of abandoned sites where resorts, hotels, and bungalow colonies once boomed in the Catskill Mountain region of upstate New York.

Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, New York: After Business declined in the 1970s when tropical locales such as Hawaii and the Bahamas lured young people to their shores. After turnover in ...