Welcome
Nate and Sadie Friedman welcome you to The Brookside Hotel web-site. Just as they did in years past at the hotel itself, they hope that you will enjoy your visit and come back many times to enjoy some wonderful memories of the vacations and time spent at their hotel. While we hope you will get pleasure from this web-site you won’t be able to taste the food in the dining room or laugh at the entertainment in the famous “No-Name Room”.
From its beginning as a farm and guest house in the 1930s, The Brookside Hotel was linked to the history of the Catskills and of Kerhonkson. We want to make sure this history is not going to be lost as time continues to pass. We may have waited too long already, like Nate Friedman many guests are unfortunately not with us anymore, but our hope is that those of you who have memories of The Brookside from your vacations and stays, or those of you who have family stories that include The Brookside will enjoy these pages and pictures. And, those of you who may have your own stories to tell, your own memories, and your own pictures will share them with us and others as we try to reconnect The Brookside Hotel family again. Take advantage of the link to send us your stories and pictures.
On this web-site you will be able to post your memories and stories as well as let us know that you have pictures that we will be able to include them on this web-site. We look forward to hearing from you and hopefully continuing to enjoy the wonderful memories from those times.
Sadie, Barry, Richard and Suzanne all send their thanks that you have found this web-site. If you or your family ever visited the Brookside please check out some of the pictures we have been able to find that help us remember days long gone. If you have pictures from your visits to the hotel or know someone who does please send them to Richard at rbfriedman946@yahoo.com or to sadiefriedman@comcast.net” so we can include them in our history.
Sadie spends the winters in Florida in West Palm Beach and returns to New York in the late Spring until early Fall. She is keeping busy with friends, bridge, emailing old and new friends, and her family. She can still tell all of us in the family where people sat in the dining room, who they came with and what room they had….so she would love to hear from old guests and their families.
September 6, 2014:
- email Sue at Brookside123@gmail.com or call at 845-339-0002
- email Rich at friedman946@yahoo.com or call at 603-714-2311
The past months have only confirmed how much all of us depended on her guidance and advice, and how much she will be missed by all.
Richie,
This is an incredible website that brings back with great fondness my youth(i am presently looking for it although long gone). Such a flood of great remembrances come back to me that it is hard to describe. I think just the fact that I still think about all of the great times I had says it all. I can still see John Mills, Howie and Steve Petusevsky, Chuck Tepper, Scotty Krieger, Brian De Fiore( the only person I know to buy a Gremlin) just to name a very few. I also still smell the pechah(sp?) and Nat Steins cheap cigars!! Playing on the softball team, late night partying in Rosendale, trying to wake up Jeff (Lighting) Weiner to serve breakfast, shooting the breeze with Joe the short order cook just scratches the surface of the 13 years I spent at the wonderful Brookside Hotel. Above all, having the entire Friedman family as my second family will be something I will remember forever.
Richie,
I’ll never forget the first day I stepped into the Brookside Hotel. I had befriended Matthew Kates on our school bus and he gave me the opportunity to cover for him as a busboy on a Friday night. I remember the wonder I felt walking into that gigantic dining room and, at only 15 thinking that I couldn’t possibly do this!
From that night, for the next 7 years I fell in love with everything about the incredible home that Nate and Sadie had created for us all. So many names, Dave, Brian, Howie, Scott, Kevin, Perry, Matt, Joe, Nat, the list goes on and on.
I also remember the day in 1983 being at home with my scanner for the Kerhonkson Accord First Aid Squad and hearing the call for the fire. I responded and with disbelief and no small degree of sorrow, watched the place I loved burn. But I had a job to do that day and I helped get the guests to the Granit and spent hours with them taking blood pressures and just offering comfort.
I have some pictures that I’ll scan and send to you. I just want to say thank you for creating this site and I can’t wait to see how it grows. Please feel free to share my email with anyone who asks.
George