One day in Cairo, perhaps in the late 1930s or 1940s, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company enticed shoppers to its storefront at 515 Main St. with a blowout 5-cent sale on soup, beans, and other provisions. In an undated, unsigned photograph, cans are piled in pyramids outside the front door, and a sign […]
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Woodstock
All Aboard! Station Bar & Curio in Woodstock Celebrates a Decade in Business
Lily Korolkoff and her then-boyfriend, Ben Rollins, were lamenting limited options for local craft beer and spirits while on a visit to Woodstock when they spotted a “For Rent” sign on a relocated former train station. It turned out that the monthly payment for the Tinker Street building was exactly what they were paying for […]
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Woodstock
The New Kids: Oyster Party Opens a Home Base at Hotel Dylan
When I moved to the Catskills full time in 2005, I was considered one of the “new kids on the block.” I was in my late 30s, with a young child entering the now-shuttered and beloved Phoenicia Elementary School, and plenty of my urban-dwelling friends—even those who loved the Hudson Valley on weekends and in […]
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Windham
In Hensonville, New Ventures Breathe Life Into a Quiet Catskills Hamlet
Former New York City police sergeant Zack Malegiannakis likes what he sees from the bar and restaurant he runs in the center of the once-sleepy hamlet of Hensonville. “It’s exciting because it’s only getting better,” said Malegiannakis, 61, who moved to Windham from Brooklyn. “I’ve been here for eight years and the only thing we’re […]
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Overlook
Catskills Hardware Stores Grapple With Fallout from Tariffs
H Houst & Son, a Woodstock institution for more than nine decades, is feeling the squeeze from President Donald Trump’s insistence that higher tariffs on imported goods will deliver faster economic growth and cheaper prices for U.S. consumers. Items that once cost a dollar now arrive in the U.S. at $1.30 before they reach the […]
