Catskill, on the west bank of the Hudson about 100 miles north of New York City, has a movie house with a marquee on Main Street along with a columned courthouse and places to window shop. In the last year especially, local real estate broker David King said he has noticed more 30-something couples with toddlers from Brooklyn. The once-tumbledown city is today is loaded with antique shops, art spaces and, yes, the sort of restaurants that get described glowingly in The New York Times as "a fever dream of luxury and rural kitsch." Sklansky, a copywriter who moved upstate a decade ago, is working on a privately funded marketing campaign for the village with a group of like-minded residents called the Catskill Action Team. Team member Andrea Lowenthal is offering the deal on the ground floor of a building she owns on Main Street, the site of an old luncheonette with a black marble service counter and art deco fixtures. [...] he also took time out from giving a customer a buzz cut to show off a nearby stack of menus from local restaurants like Natalie's Nook, La Casa Latina and A & G Texas Weiners.
Reported by SeattlePI.com 4 hours ago.
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