{"id":4865,"date":"2012-01-23T13:59:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstater.com\/?p=4865"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:59:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:59:12","slug":"borscht-belt-to-rise-again-as-a-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/borscht-belt-to-rise-again-as-a-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Borscht Belt to Rise Again&#8230; as a Casino?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=8755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4866\" src=\"http:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wurtsboro_nevele.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wurtsboro_nevele.jpg 570w, https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wurtsboro_nevele-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/upstater.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/wurtsboro_nevele-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">from Fading Ad Blog<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Word in yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/AP31a2c456ac4646889d094c222c769c10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journa<\/a>l was that a 432-room Borscht Belt hotel, the Nevele, could get a new owner. The place has been shuttered since 2009, though we know the area has been hurting for far longer than that. Many wonder what could revive the area. Fancy ski resort, a la Belleayre? Or just plain gambling? That&#8217;s what the developers, Claremont, are hoping for, and Gov. Cuomo is, too. Currently casino gambling is allowed only on Indian reservations. What do you guys think? Bring gambling to the Borscht Belt and hope it rises again? Or have you got a better idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal was that a 432-room Borscht Belt hotel, the Nevele, could get a new owner. The place has been shuttered since 2009, though we know the area has been hurting for far longer than that. Many wonder what could revive the area. Fancy ski resort, a la Belleayre? Or just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[6,95],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Borscht Belt to Rise Again... as a Casino? - Upstater<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/upstater.com\/borscht-belt-to-rise-again-as-a-casino\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Borscht Belt to Rise Again... as a Casino? - Upstater\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Word in yesterday&#8217;s Wall Street Journal was that a 432-room Borscht Belt hotel, the Nevele, could get a new owner. 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