article_snippet: Once upon a time, The Borscht Belt beat with life.
article_snippet: But that Borscht Belt no longer exists.
article_snippet: the photographer Marisa Scheinfeld   photographs show how The Borscht Belt, once filled with bustling resorts that dotted the Catskill Mountains in upstate New YorkNew York, has now become a scene of natural decay .
article_snippet: Scheinfeld, 33, grew up in The Borscht Belt, nicknamed because it was a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews for more than fifty years.
article_snippet: Scheinfeld, 33, grew up in the Borscht Belt, nicknamed because it was a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews for more than fifty years.
article_snippet: It was in the 1950s that the Borscht Belt, which included the counties of Sullivan, Orange and Ulster, really boomed, she told the Brian Lehrer Show.
highlights_snippet: The Borscht Belt was a popular vacation spot for New York City Jews from the 1920s to 1970s .
  