How the Hudson Valley and the Catskills became the home to grunge icons, ex-punks and one-hit wonders. Source: New York Times
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Catskills Hotel That Inspired ‘Dirty Dancing’ Suffers Devastating Fire
By Gotham Rex on August 17, 2022
The Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel had served as a vibrant summertime getaway for generations. But in recent decades, it had been abandoned. Source: New York Times
In a Reimagined Victorian Schoolhouse, an Artist Finds His Third Act
By Gotham Rex on February 8, 2022
By moving into a turn-of-the-20th-century building in upstate New York, the ceramist Dan McCarthy learned that he didn’t need the city that had defined him — and his career — after all. Source: New York Times
Officers Ran Off After Firing Stun Gun That Set Man Ablaze, Video Shows
By Gotham Rex on January 7, 2022
The footage was released by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation that began after the man, Jason Jones, died last month. Source: New York Times
Man Dies After He Is Shot by the Police With a Stun Gun and Catches Fire
By Gotham Rex on December 16, 2021
New York’s attorney general said her office would investigate the man’s death, which followed an altercation in an upstate police station. Source: New York Times
$700,000 Homes in New York, Rhode Island and Indiana
By Gotham Rex on December 16, 2020
A soaring kit house in Catskill, a two-bedroom condominium in an 1852 mansion in Newport and a limestone house in Bloomington. Source: New York Times
Black Lives Matter Street Painting Is Rejected in Catskill, N.Y.
By Gotham Rex on July 13, 2020
The debate over whether to allow the street art has exacerbated racial tensions in Catskill, where just over a fifth of the population is Black. Source: New York Times