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‘What’s With Jews and Comedy?’ Borscht Belt-themed show to chronicle beloved Catskills comedy...
South Florida Sun Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 months agoFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — What’s a Borscht Belt joke? Comedy historian Lenny Dave shares this classic...
How the Catskills became the long weekend summer getaway for New Yorkers
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 hours agoJust over two hours out of the city, Alex Hannaford finds a playground for outdoor enthusiasts – as...
Freddie Roman, Staple Borscht Belt Stand-Up Comedian, Dies at 85
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFreddie Roman, a staple stand-up comedian in the Catskill Mountains’ Borscht Belt region and...
Freddie Roman Dies: Borscht Belt Comedian Who Appeared In Film And TV Was 85
Deadline via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFreddie Roman, a Borscht Belt staple whose comedy was long a part of the Friars Club roasts and was...
Borscht Belt comedian Freddie Roman dies at age 85
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoComedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. Roman died Saturday afternoon at...
Hudson Valley development plans include a prison, power plant and Borscht Belt museum
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWestchester County's beauty scene is growing. The county welcomed three beauty businesses in the...
Fire destroys building at vacant Grossinger's resort, once a Catskill jewel
Times Herald-Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoLIBERTY — A fire consumed a building at the site of the long-closed Grossinger’s resort, once among...
Schumer’s highway to the Catskills angers environmentalists
Politico via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNEW YORK — Thousands of New Yorkers escape the sweltering heat of the concrete jungle each summer by fleeing their Brooklyn brownstones and Upper West Side co-ops and driving west on Route 17 ...
Abandoned hotel that inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’ suffers fire
TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA building was consumed by a fire at the site of a former upstate New York hotel that inspired the...
Beloved entertainer Dani Luv will hit the stage as NYC institution Sammy’s Roumanian makes a...
NY Post metro via AOL· 1 month agoOne of New York’s most well-known mensches is getting his tuchus back on stage. Dani Luv, the...