NEW YORK (JTA) — Irving Cohen, the maitre d’ at the popular Concord Hotel in the Catskills for 50 years, died in Florida at 95. Cohen, who started working as a waiter at the Concord in the late 1930s ...

ALBANY — It’s game on in the Borscht Belt. After decades of waiting for a revival, Catskills officials hope to hit the jackpot Thursday when they cut the ribbon on a $900-million hotel and casino on ...

How did you spend your summer vacation, say, 40, 50, even 60 years ago? For many Long Islanders, those carefree holidays meant heading up to the Catskills for lounging by the pool, playing tennis or ...

KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. >> On March 25, 1968, 10 days before he was struck down by an assassin’s bullet, civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed a group of rabbis at the Concord Hotel in ...

Beyond the floodlights, the slanting floor of the Concord Hotel’s coliseum-sized nightclub rose into astonishing distance. The S.R.O. audience, 3,000 strong, was swaddled in mutation mink and choked ...

Empire Resorts and Concord Associates have agreed to build a $700 million gaming and entertainment facility in Monticello, N.Y., in the Catskill Mountains. Construction is expected to commence later ...