![]() The 18-story casino and hotel rises above the tree line on the former grounds of the Concord, the grande dame of the borscht belt, outside Monticello. ![]() ![]() “Hopefully, this casino will bring more life, more traffic and more business to town.” Baker, 24, who was gleeful about her new job at the front desk of the casino’s hotel, which came with a $7-an-hour pay increase and medical benefits. “It seems like there’s this gray cloud over Monticello,” said Ms. Baker walked out of a job fair at the local Ramada Inn with a new position at the soon-to-open Resorts World Catskills, the $1.2 billion casino resort that proponents say will revive Sullivan County, a once-booming area known as the borscht belt for its hotels, bungalow colonies and performers, appealing to Jewish vacationers. Then her hours got cut.īut in mid-December, Ms. Sherelle Baker was spending more money on gas driving to work from her home here than she made at the job as a waitress-bartender. ![]()
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