Dirty Dancing" have burned New York Fire Department's Facebook page

 

SOMEONE KEPT BABY IN A CORNER: The remains of an upstate New York hotel that inspired the movie "Dirty Dancing" have burned, according to the local fire department. The property, called Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel, closed its doors in 1986. "Multiple calls to Sullivan (County) 911 reported a large structure fire on the old Grossinger's Hotel property," posted an Aug. 17 notice on the Liberty, New York Fire Department's Facebook page. 

 The post went on to say that firefighters had trouble reaching the source of the fire because the area was overgrown, and once the fire was extinguished "an excavator was brought to the scene to demolish the structure." Most of the resort was demolished in 2018, although a few structures remain.

 "Dirty Dancing," stars Jennifer Gray as Baby Houseman, a Jewish teenager who falls in love with a hotel dance instructor played by Patrick Swayze. - Courtesy of Artisan Entertainment/Everett Collection Grossinger's, which opened in 1919 as Grossinger's Terrace Hill House, was a kosher establishment that catered to a mostly Jewish clientele in the New York City area.