May 2, 2024

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Famed Catskills resort that helped inspire “Dirty Dancing” burns down

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The 1987 film “Dirty Dancing” has been revered for its iconic setting in the Catskills. On Tuesday night, a building at the famed New York resort that once hosted idyllic family summers and served as inspiration for the film’s backdrop burned down.

The Liberty, New York, fire department said Wednesday that a three-and-a-half-story building at Grossinger’s Catskill resort had caught on fire overnight. The fire was so massive, they said, that smoke could be seen “for several miles.”

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