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Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld grew up in the "Borscht Belt," a ritzy Jewish resort haven in New York. Many of the establishments have gone out of business and become abandoned buildings. Scheinfeld returned to the area to document what the resorts look like today.

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Robert Cohen & Tony Luis working at the Fallsview Hotel in 1958. Robert Cohen mingling with guests at Fallsview Hotel in 1959. Tamarack Lodge's dining-room staff circa 1960 - photo credit by Robert Cohen who lived in Ellenville and worked the Fallsview, Homowack, Tamarack, Gilbert's and more. Borscht Belt, or Jewish Alps, is a colloquial term for the mostly defunct summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in parts of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster counties in upstate New York that were a…

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