If the big-talking Oklahoma investor still wants to buy the Friar Tuck Inn, he can call the Ulster Savings Bank. The property was foreclosed on after the hotel lost its case for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court yesterday.
The Daily Freeman had a fairly perfunctory story, but the Catskill Daily Mail got the goods, with the requisite photos of billiard tables being unceremoniously hauled out of the building and teary quotes from the owner.
“It’s devastating,” said Ricki Caridi, co-proprietor of the Friar Tuck. “I’m 54 and I have to start my life all over again.”
Speaking of foreclosures: Greene County scribe Dick May recently posted a roundup of local tax-delinquent properties, which he says will yield a bumper crop on the auction block this year.
