Catskills

Elderly Couple Dies After Car Gets Stuck In Area Without Cellphone Service

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Madeleine Morris, Catskills, Cell Service, Car Crash, Ny News, New York News, Arthur Morris, New York News

ANDES, N.Y. — An elderly Manhattan couple whose car became stuck near their wooded Catskills vacation home died after nine fruitless attempts to...

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PICS: Amazing Postcards From The Vanished Catskills 'Borscht Belt'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: New York Gambling, Jewish Alps, Catskills, New York Ephemera, NY Around Town, New York Around Town, Dirty Dancing, The Concord Hotel, Slidewide, New York Casino, Borsch Belt, New York Travel, Ny Travel, New York News

From the 1920s to the 1970s, the Catskills were full of resorts popular amongst New York Jews--so popular in fact, the area came to be known as "The B...

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Who Are You Transitioning Into?

Misha Lyuve | Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Catskills, Living Life, Work of Art, Inspiration, New York, #Liveworkofart, Culture News
Misha Lyuve

From ART BEAUTY LIFE blog Our lives are in transition. Always. If nothing else, we are transitioning into getting a day older. We also transition c...

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Crapping Out in New York

Dave Colavito | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Casinos, Bankruptcy, Crime, Economic Development, Gambling, Catskills, Addiction, Community, Sullivan County, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Hudson Valley, Delaware Valley, Cuomo Casinos, Gambling Addiction, Casino Licenses, New York News
Dave Colavito

Accounting gimmicks have always made it easy to pitch the "casino sale"; they obscure the documented higher rates of addiction, bankruptcy, and crime that the casino economy brings to communities.

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WATCH: New York Town Almost Entirely Underwater After Irene

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Video, Catskills, Hurricane-Irene-2011, Upstate New York, Vermont, Hurricane Irene, Flooding, Prattsville, New York, Prattsville Ny, Prattsville New York, Prattsville Ny Flooding, Green News

Some areas may have been spared from severe damage by Tropical Storm Irene, but inland areas of New York and Vermont are seeing their worst flooding i...

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Joshua Hersh

Hurricane Irene: Major Flooding Hits Upstate New York, Vermont

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Floods, Hurricane Irene Vermont, Video, Natural Disasters, Catskills, Hurricane Irene 2011, Hurricane Irene, Vermont, Flooding, Hurricane Irene New York, New York, Green News

As Hurricane Irene travels northward, leaving the major cities of New York and Washington in better shape than anticipated, new dangers are arising fo...

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Astoria Characters: The 95-Year-Old Spring Chicken

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.26.2011

Read More: Hunter College, Stan the Man and His All-Girl Recorder Orchestra, Recorder, Bryant High School, Henrietta Spilkia, Mahjong, Catskills, Astoria Characters, Naturally Occurring Retirement Community, World War II, Piano, Astoria, Queensview, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Don't let her age fool you. Henrietta Spilkia looks 75, and she's as vibrant as her hot-pink turtleneck and cherry-red lipstick.

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Obama Presents NRDC Founder John Adams with a Presidential Medal of Freedom

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, John Adams Nrdc, Catskills, Fracking, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Carol Browner, Nrdc, Natural Gas, Green News
Frances Beinecke

Today NRDC Founder John Adams will travel to the White House to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United St...

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An Over-the-Top Getaway in the Catskills (PHOTOS)

Maria Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catskills, Roxbury Motel, Peakamoose Restaurant and Tap Room, Public Lounge, Zen Mountain-Monastery, Slidepollajax, Travel News
Maria Russo

*SEE PHOTOS BELOW* In the Catskills, there is more than meets the eye. Beyond the unspoiled landscapes of tiered mountain peaks, frolicking rivers a...

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Mountain Resorts of the Past Earning a Second Life

xxxxAnnemarieDoolingxxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Travel, Pocono, Travel, Catskills, Mountains, Internet, Tourism, Hotels, Segway, Resort, Happy Hour, Travel News
xxxxAnnemarieDoolingxxxx

The golden age of travel has left in its path a few lone mountain motels, a family resort or two, and a trail of corroding cottages. You can't get any more desolate than the East Coast Mountains.

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New York Has a Gas Problem: How Do You Spell Relief?

Dave Colavito | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Natural Gas, Marcellus Shale, New York, Sullivan County, Horizontal Drilling, Catskills, David Patterson, New York News
Dave Colavito

Governor Patterson is betting heavily on proceeds from natural gas extracted from New York's Marcellus Shale. However, real concerns exist about what industrializing this area would mean.

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Fracking in New York's Marcellus Shale; An Open Forum

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Department of Environmental Conservation, Marcellus Shale, Catskills, Maurice Hinchey, Jonathan Schein, SUNY New Paltz, Nrdc, Chesapeake Energy, Scheinmedia, Watershed, Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing, New York City, Metrogreenbusinesscom, New York News
Jonathan A. Schein

This week I had the opportunity to moderate and co-produce a panel with the SUNY New Paltz Environmental Task Force, "The Future of Gas Drilling in New York State."

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Mumps Outbreak Spreads: Over 1,500 Infected

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mumps Outbreak, New Jersey Mumps, Catskills, Mumps, Mumps Jewish Communities, Mumps Cases, Orthodox Jews, New York Mumps, New York News

ATLANTA — A mumps outbreak among Orthodox Jews in New York and New Jersey has now surpassed 1,500 cases and shows no sign of ending soon, health off...

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Fall Leaves: 10 Places For Vibrant Foliage

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Leaves, Catskills, Aspen, Acadia National Park, Columbia River Gorge, Slidepoll, Autumn, Fall, Green Living, Fall Foliage, Trees, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lost Maples, Sonoma-County, Mount-Washington, Lake of the Ozarks, Berkshires, Nature, Best-Fall-Foliage-Pics, Green News

With the autumn season in full swing, this means we'll be seeing leaves change color and carpet the ground. Check out the best places from the around...

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Old Jews Telling Jokes: "I Must"

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jokes, Video, Jewish Humor, Catskills, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Old Jews, Funny Videos, Bliptv, Comedy News

We love "Old Jews Telling Jokes." The series, started earlier this year, takes us back to the Borscht Belt--showing elderly folks (who are luckily not...

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Old Jews Telling Jokes: "Murray The Waiter" (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Old Jews Jokes, Catskills, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Funny Videos, Bliptv, Comedy News

We love "Old Jews Telling Jokes." The series, started earlier this year, takes us back to the Borscht Belt--showing elderly folks (who are luckily not...

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Launching Woodstock -- the Film Festival!

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Documentary, Woodstock, Catskills, Film, Woodstock Film Festival, Lucy Liu, Animation, Richard Kroehling, New York News
Stewart Nusbaumer

The Woodstock Film Festival will soon be host to Lucy Liu, Woody Harrelson and a host of 150 films, shorts, animations and panels.

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Real Ballroom Dancing for Regular People

Janet Carlson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Catskills, Ballroom Dancing, Lisbon, Vacation, Cruise Ship, Dance Lessons, Mohonk, Healthy Living News
Janet Carlson

It's hard for a novice to step into the ballroom studio -- those suave, glamorous, sexy, elegant pros in the studios and on TV these days can be so intimidating

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The Road to Woodstock

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catskills, Free Love, Concerts, Hippies, Woodstock, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

In her new film Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee does nothing to capture the joy and excitement leading up to the event.

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Don't Take Your Drinking Water for Granted this World Water Day

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, World Water Day, Water Pollution, Urban Planning, Clean Water Act, Public Health, Catskills, Natural Gas Drilling, World Water Forum, Drinking Water, New York City, Marcellus Shale, Green News
Scott Dodd

Where does your drinking water come from? Natural historian Sidney Horenstein has been asking that question around New York City for decades. The ans...

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New York Water Supply Threatened By Mercury Found In Eagles

New York Times | Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bald Eagles, Catskills, Green News, Water, New York City, Environment, Mercury, Ddt, Water Crisis, Endangered Species, BioDiversity Research Institute, Drinking Water, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Green News

"If mercury is affecting them, it eventually is going to affect us, as well," Ms. White said. Eagle chicks elsewhere in New York also were tested for...

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