Editing Woodridge, New York (section)

== History ==
[[File:Silver Lake, Woodridge, NY.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A color photograph of a lake under a blue sky.|[[Silver Lake (Woodridge, New York)|Silver Lake]], Woodridge, New York, in the [[Catskill Mountains]]<!-- ''[[Jewish Alps]]'' -->]]
The village was formerly called "Centreville". A history of the village, ''Centreville to Woodridge'' by Erna W. Elliott, was published by Exposition Press in 1976. Centreville was a station stop along the old [[New York, Ontario and Western Railway]].

Woodridge is located in the [[Catskills]] [[Borscht Belt]] resort area. In its heyday it was home to numerous summer hotels, bungalow colonies, and boarding houses. Fallsburgh Central School's high school was in Woodridge. The last graduating class was in 1958. The new high school was built in Fallsburg.
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During the 1950s, Woodridge had:
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*4 bars
*3 hardware stores
*2 dental offices
*1 amusement business
*6 gasoline stations
*3 produce markets
*2 bus lines
*5 automobile repair shops
*5 groceries
*1 fish market
*2 taxi services
*2 dry cleaners
*4 luncheonettes
*2 drug stores
*1 bank
*1 movie theatre
*3 clothing stores
*1 liquor store
*1 shoe store
*1 steam laundry
*2 barber shops
*3 automobile dealerships
*1 mattress manufacturer
*3 butcher shops
*2 medical doctor's offices
*3 lumber yards
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1- bakery- Mortmans

In addition, there were numerous trades and professionals, including painters, a plumber, electricians, masons, carpenters, auto body repair, CPAs, architects, lawyers, flooring contractors, sign painters and chicken dealers.

A small percentage of the permanent population is still [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]]. There are two active [[synagogue]]s in Woodridge:

* [[Ohave Shalom Synagogue (Woodbridge, New York)|Ohave Shalom Synagogue]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2000.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2009a}}</ref>
* [[K'hal Yerim of Woodridge]] on 25 Highland Avenue was founded in 1985 by the Grand Rabbi Yitzchok Lebovits.

On July 16, 2010, an [[eruv]] was erected in Woodridge under the supervision of Rabbi Yechiel Steinmetz of [[Monsey, New York]]. Rabbi Yechiel Steinmetz's eruv was functional only for that summer.

[[Silver Lake Dam]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 2000.<ref name="nris"/>

===Notable former hotels in Woodridge===
<ref>[http://www.brown.edu/Research/Catskills_Institute/hotelsbungalows.shtml#W Brown edu.]</ref><ref name="Vanishing Catskills">[http://www.vanishingcatskills.com/advancedsearchresult2.php?town=Woodridge Vanishing Catskills]</ref>

*Palms Hotel
*Olympic Hotel
*Avon Lodge
*Glory Hotel
*Hotel Israel (Fischel Kleinberg's)
*[https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/10/travel/q-and-a-137683.html Vegetarian Hotel] (Konviser family)
*The Biltmore
*Sunny Oaks
*The Claremore Country Club
*Sunny Acres Dude Ranch
*The Rosemond
*The Alamac Country Club
*Rubinstein's Hotel<ref name="Vanishing Catskills"/>
*Saperstein's Bungalow's
*Hotel Weingerson<ref>Family member of owner</ref>
*Shein's Hotel<ref>former guest & friend of the owners</ref>