Kutsher's Hotel

While the region was open to any and all visitors, the Borscht Belt was so named due to the largely Jewish-American clientele that made the Catskills the primary vacation destination for Jews in the northeastern United States.

Over the decades, performers such as David Brenner, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Woody Allen and Joan Rivers appeared here.

He oversaw the hotel's significant expansion from the 1950s to the 1980s, which created a premiere Catskills vacation destination: a "1,500 acres (607 ha) property that included a 400-room resort, condos, two bungalow colonies, two summer camps, an 18-hole golf course and lakefront.

[8] Milton Kutsher was active in sports circles, making the hotel the Catskills home of legendary Celtics coach Red Auerbach, Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain,[9] who worked at Kutsher's as a bellhop, and Hall of Famer, Joe Lapchick, who played for the Original Celtics and coached the New York Knicks.

[10] Muhammad Ali trained at Kutsher's, as did other world boxing champions, such as Floyd Patterson and Leon Spinks.

[7] The Maurice Stokes Game, which raised funds for the injured professional basketball player Maurice Stokes and raised funds for needy former players from the game's earlier days,[11] was sponsored in part, by Kutsher's and played at either the hotel or the Kutsher's Sports Academy.

Performers such as David Brenner, Louis Armstrong, Dean Martin, Woody Allen, and Jerry Seinfeld all spent their early career at Kutsher's.

In late winter, early spring 2008, the Kutsher family entered into an option agreement with Louis Cappelli of Westchester County, New York to bring management changes and ownership of the hotel.

Leaving part of the building there, the developers constructed a health and wellness destination based on the Indian discipline of yoga in another location.