Catskills

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

AP | Posted 05.11.2012

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

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

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 03.14.2012

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...

Who Are You Transitioning Into?

Misha Lyuve | Posted 01.06.2012

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...

Crapping Out in New York

Dave Colavito | Posted 11.22.2011

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.

WATCH: New York Town Almost Entirely Underwater After Irene

Posted 10.30.2011

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...

Joshua Hersh

Hurricane Irene: Major Flooding Hits Upstate New York, Vermont

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 10.28.2011

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

Astoria Characters: The 95-Year-Old Spring Chicken

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.26.2011

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.

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

Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Maria Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Mountain Resorts of the Past Earning a Second Life

xxxxAnnemarieDoolingxxxx | Posted 05.25.2011

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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.

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

Dave Colavito | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

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

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

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."

Mumps Outbreak Spreads: Over 1,500 Infected

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Fall Leaves: 10 Places For Vibrant Foliage

Huffington Post | ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Old Jews Telling Jokes: "I Must"

Posted 05.25.2011

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...

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

Posted 05.25.2011

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...

Launching Woodstock -- the Film Festival!

Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 05.25.2011

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.

Real Ballroom Dancing for Regular People

Janet Carlson | Posted 11.17.2011

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

The Road to Woodstock

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Jackie K. Cooper

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

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

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

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...

New York Water Supply Threatened By Mercury Found In Eagles

New York Times | Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011

"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...