A standoff is simmering at a summer camp run by a Hasidic sect that is defying a mandatory “Order to Evacuate” issued by New York State for numerous safety violations. Homowack Lodge, located in ...

SPRING GLEN — The state plans to serve a Hasidic sect Thursday with an order to leave the former Homowack Lodge, the state Department of Health's district director, Mark Knudsen, said Wednesday. The ...

Hasidic campers and families finally evacuated a Catskills-area lodge that was cited by the New York State Department of Health for numerous safety violations, just hours ahead of a judge’s deadline.

SUMMITVILLE — The Department of Health has asked those staying at the former Homowack Lodge to evacuate the resort after citing the owner for “numerous, persistent and serious violation of the ...

For the last three years, Pablo Maurer has photographed vacation towns in the Poconos and Catskills mountain ranges. He’s one of few people to recently set foot in the once-booming vacation spots that ...