Brunswick Resort

The Brunswick Resort in Upstate N.Y., Like many other Borscht Belt Hotel/Resorts was converted into a summer camp for Hassidic girls. Officials of the state Department of Health ordered the property evacuated in July 2009, citing health and safety violations.

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That Other 70's Hotel

That Other 70's Hotel was primarily a long-term hotel, rooms were rented by the week. Except for the tiny economy rooms on the top floor, every room came with a kitchen across the hall. Guests of the hotel would be given keys to both. There was some light evening entertainment offered at the Hotel, noted Ukrainian dance musician Michael Skorr performed there for 18 consecutive summers. However, many guests would opt to head over to the Larger Sister Hotel for the more elaborate comedy shows and vaudeville acts featured over there. Like the The Larger Sister Hotel, That Other 70's Hotel shuttered its doors after the 2004 season, its fate remains in the air.

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Hotel Levbourne

Carrie Komito ran the Hotel Aladdin until 1998. Then in Her Nineties, She recalls that her parents after 10 years as guests at the Hotel Levbourne, Bought the Resort. In the 1950's, to make the hotel seem fresher, the family changed the hotel's name to the Aladdin. When they built a nightclub, they named it the Ali Baba Room, Naturally. The international-style facade transformed the appearance of the 1st floor of the building on the left. The upper floors were not change at all. As the Hotel Business soured, Carrie Komito moved many bungalows onto her property and rented them to "Snowbirds" or Floridians . The Hotel later was transformed into an Orthodox Jewish Resort Cooperative. Between May of 2009 and June of 2012 the Aladdin suffered from a few Fires.

 

The Tamarack Lodge

The Tamarack Lodge, located in Greenfield Park, New York, was one of the many Catskill resorts in Ulster and Sullivan Counties popular for decades with tourists from New York City.  Sadly, the Tamarack, like so many of the other Catskill destinations, is an abandoned shell of what it once was.

 The Tamarack in Better Days

 The Tamarack was a boarding house from 1927 to 1947, after which it became the Tamarack Lodge. It was one of the many resorts considered part of the borscht belt and was a popular destination for Jewish vacationers. Pulitzer Prize winning author Herman Wouk waited tables in the children's dining room during the 1930s.

Many popular entertainers appeared at the Tamarack, including Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Cream, The Who, and Janis Joplin.  During Passover in 1994 a large fire wiped out part of the building and displaced guests.
dining room during the 1930s.

In  April 2012 

The smoke billowing high above Route 52 just outside the Village of Ellenville late Saturday afternoon can be seen for miles. According to Ulster County fire officials 30 buildings on the former Tamarack Lodge property catch fire. To make matters worse, two separate brush fires break out. It's a scene that draws hundreds of firefighters from neighboring counties of Orange, Dutchess and Sullivan Counties to try and keep this fire from getting out of control.

Dave Meade, a NYS Forest Ranger said, “All the shingles and stuff were carried by the high-winds and it dumped a whole bunch of spot fires here all the way across at several locations. We didn't even know this one until we flew over and spotted it. This one looks like maybe it's 10 acres." While state forest rangers work the woods… 

Park Ranger, Greg Tyrrell said, “Right now it's a good time to get a handle on this thing. You know we got a lot of personnel from all over, so we should get a handle on it pretty quickly."Back at the Ellenville Fire House firefighters continue to return from fighting the lodge fire. They get some much needed nourishment, and then they're out the door to get back to work.Charles Mutz, Ulster County Chief Fire Coordinator said, “The main part of the facility is on the ground. I've sent an excavator up to the sight to my deputy and the incident commander up there. We have two aerial operations going at this point just to cool it down."

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That 70's Hotel & Spa

That 70's Hotel and Spa was located in a bustling resort town built upon a natural mineral spring. It was thought that the high levels of sulphur, magnesium, and iron in the water provided a variety of health benefits, the exact specifications of which varied widely over the years. By the end of the 19th century, it was a highly fashionable escape from New York, patrons included the Vanderbilts and Oscar Wilde. By the time of the Depression, there were more than a dozen resort hotels operating out of the town, alongside a highly regarded golf course, a number of bath houses, and other amenities common to resorts of the era.

That 70's Hotel and Spa which first opened its doors in 1927. Already the town was fading. Add to this the economic hardships of the Depression, which happened only a few years after the hotel was built, and the hotel was economically troubled from the beginning.

But after World War 2, the town again came into prominence, now as a getaway spot for wealthy German Jews. In 1946, Ed Koch, future mayor of New York, bussed tables at the Hotel. The town was again booming.

But the decline of resorts in general, as well as the building of the New York State Thruway, which bypassed the town, took their toll. One by one, the resort hotels and bath houses closed. That 70's Hotel was among the last to shut its doors, in 2004.

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