{"id":7552,"date":"2012-04-16T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T19:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upstater.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:01:03","slug":"the-burning-of-the-borscht-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upstater.com\/the-burning-of-the-borscht-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burning of the Borscht Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tamarack Lodge Fire\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlu91lIfVzE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The big news in the Catskills last week was the <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wabc\/story?section=news\/local\/northern_suburbs&amp;id=8613527\" target=\"_blank\">burning<\/a> of the former Tamarack Lodge in Wawarsing, a property now owned by the\u00a0Western Mohegan tribe. High winds and dry air made the fire, set deliberately by a 56-year-old\u00a0Long Island man named \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hvinsider.com\/articles\/arrest-made-in-brush-fire-that-destroyed-tamarack-property\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lance Muckenhaupt<\/a> who was attempting to burn some brush, burn out of control. It destroyed tens of old bungalows &#8212; most unoccupied and condemned, but a few were inhabited by members of the tribe or their friends &#8212; as well as the clubhouse, poolhouse and other historic buildings, some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20120407\/NEWS\/120409788\" target=\"_blank\">30 in all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then, yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20120415\/NEWS\/204150328\/-1\/rss01\" target=\"_blank\">another fire<\/a> broke out, this one at the Grandview Palace condominiums in Fallsburg, which opened as Brown&#8217;s Hotel, a classic Catskills resort, back in 1944. It was transformed in condos in 1997, one of the few examples of a relatively successful rebirth of a Borscht Belt property. Not successful enough, alas: Fallsburg town officials threatened the owners with condemnation just two months ago, citing fire and safety violations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news in the Catskills last week was the burning of the former Tamarack Lodge in Wawarsing, a property now owned by the\u00a0Western Mohegan tribe. High winds and dry air made the fire, set deliberately by a 56-year-old\u00a0Long Island man named \u00a0Lance Muckenhaupt who was attempting to burn some brush, burn out of control. 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