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Loch Sheldrake is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Fallsburg in Sullivan County, New York, in the Catskill Mountains, with the ZIP Code 12759.

Loch Sheldrake had a population of 1,025 at the 2020 census.

The community was originally named Sheldrake Pond, after the deep, glacially formed pond that still forms the center of the hamlet.

In its heyday as a Borscht Belt resort in the Catskills, Loch Sheldrake was home to numerous hotels, bungalow colonies, and boarding houses that drew Jewish vacationers from New York City.

Its best-known resort, Brown's Hotel, opened in 1944 and was famous for the Jerry Lewis Theatre Club, the Borscht Belt nightclub named for the comedian who had worked in the Catskills as a young entertainer.

Loch Sheldrake is home to SUNY Sullivan, the county's public community college, founded in 1962 as Sullivan County Community College and moved to its present 405-acre campus in the hamlet in 1973, where it now enrolls roughly 1,500 students.

The hamlet's Congregation Adath Israel synagogue, known as the Loch Sheldrake Synagogue, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and still opens for the summer season and the High Holidays.

The former Karmel Hotel in Loch Sheldrake now houses Stagedoor Manor, a well-known performing arts summer camp and training center for young actors.

In 2012 a year-round Hasidic community was founded in Loch Sheldrake's Town and Country Estates, complete with a synagogue, mikvah, and schools, adding a new chapter to the hamlet's long Jewish resort history.