The Ghost Hotels of the Catskills

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From Dirty Dancing to plain dirty: Sullivan County—100 miles from New York City—once had more than 500 resorts. Today, all that remains of these Jewish holiday centers is a constellation of derelict buildings.

Published Aug. 25 2014 5:45AM EDT

articles/2014/08/25/the-ghost-hotels-of-the-catskills/140823-Presser-catskills-tease_louldb — Corbis

Phones on desks, linens on beds, catalog cards spilling out of the filing cabinets—all covered with a fine patina of dust. Neglected for years, and abandoned in seconds, it’s like a modern-day Pompeii in which the earth suddenly reclaimed its souls as they went about their daily business.

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Brandon Presser

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The Ghost Hotels of the Catskills

From Dirty Dancing to plain dirty: Sullivan County—100 miles from New York City—once had more than 500 resorts. Today, all that remains of these Jewish holiday centers is a constellation of derelict buildings.

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Brandon Presser