Newburgh (town), New York

Newburgh
Town

J. Malone Bannan Center, the town hall, named for a former (1967-1978) town supervisor
Nickname(s): Crossroads of the Northeast

Location in Orange County and the state of New York.
Newburgh

Location within the state of New York

Coordinates: 41°32′30″N 74°3′47″W / 41.54167°N 74.06306°W / 41.54167; -74.06306Coordinates: 41°32′30″N 74°3′47″W / 41.54167°N 74.06306°W / 41.54167; -74.06306
Country United States
State New York
County Orange
Area
 • Total 47.0 sq mi (121.7 km2)
 • Land 43.7 sq mi (113.2 km2)
 • Water 3.3 sq mi (8.6 km2)
Elevation 423 ft (129 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 29,801
 • Density 631.0/sq mi (243.6/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s) 845
FIPS code 36-50045
GNIS feature ID 0979259
Website townofnewburgh.org

Newburgh /ˈnjuːbərɡ/ is a town in Orange County, New York, United States. The 2010 census determined the population is 29,801. This is the first time ever that the population of the Town of Newburgh officially exceeded that of the adjacent but totally separate municipality known as the city of Newburgh (with a population of 28,866).[1] Estimates released by the census bureau during the middle of the first decade of the 21st century had estimated that the Town had surpassed the City in population at that time, and in fact estimated the town population as exceeding 30,000, but the release of the official census figures underscored that those estimates were inflated.[2]

The "Crossroads of the Northeast"

The town of Newburgh is in the northeast corner of the county and abuts the city of Newburgh on both the city's north and west borders. The city of Newburgh is a totally and completely separate municipality which was a part of the town of Newburgh prior to 1865.

The town of Newburgh sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, at the northernmost point of that portion of the river known as Newburgh Bay.

Stewart International Airport is partially located in the town, and is hoped will someday decongest the major airports of New York City.

The town of Newburgh is known as the "Crossroads of the Northeast," a phrase coined in the 1980s by then-Town supervisor Robert J. Kirkpatrick, Jr., not only because of Stewart Airport and the Hudson River, but also because two major Interstate highways cross the town: Interstate 84 (east and west) and Interstate 87, also known as the New York State Thruway (north and south).[3][4][5] Previously, the highways were accessible to each other via a short stretch of New York State Route 300 (a major north-south thoroughfare and a main commercial corridor in the town) but a direct connection between I-84 and the Thruway was completed in December 2009, after being under construction for five years.[6][7][8]

Other through routes which traverse the town are U.S. Route 9W and New York State Route 32 (both north and south) as well as New York State Route 17K and New York State Route 52 (both east and west). A small portion of New York State Route 207 skirts a southern corner of the town for a very short distance after it leaves the town of New Windsor and before it enters the city of Newburgh. The training center of Local 17 of the Laborers' International Union of North America is located on this short stretch of Route 207.

The newest New York state highway, New York State Route 747, is in the extreme southwest corner of town. It opened in late 2007. It begins at Route 207 in the town of New Windsor and terminates only 3.4 miles (5.5 km) to the northwest at Route 17K in the town of Montgomery. However, its central portion is in the town of Newburgh, and it is here that Route 747 interchanges with Interstate Route 84. This new Exit 5A from Interstate 84 is the westernmost of five Interstate 84 interchanges within the town.

Route 747 provides a direct access to Stewart International Airport. Now, for the first time, motorists from the Interstates may enter Stewart Airport directly, near the terminal building, without traveling on Routes 300 and 207, both of which congest with local traffic. This new access road, called International Boulevard, intersects with Route 747 just south of the I-84 interchange.

Exit 17 from the New York Thruway (Interstate 87) is in the town of Newburgh.

The western terminus of the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, which carries Interstate 84 and New York State Route 52 across the Hudson River, is in the town of Newburgh. This span, which was opened in 1963 with a twin span opened in 1980, is the only Interstate crossing of the Hudson River between the Tappan Zee Bridge just north of New York City, and the Berkshire Thruway connector just south of Albany.

The Orange Mill Historic District is located in the town. It is the only historic district within the town.

The National Purple Heart Hall of Honor is located on Route 300 in the town of New Windsor, less than two miles south of the town of Newburgh line.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.0 square miles (122 km2), of which 43.7 square miles (113 km2) is land and 3.3 square miles (8.5 km2) (7.04%) is water.

The north town line and about one third of the west town line is the border of Ulster County, New York, and the east town line, marked by the Hudson River, is the border of Dutchess County, New York.

The town of Newburgh is bordered on the north by the town of Plattekill (Ulster County) and the town of Marlborough (Ulster County), which includes the hamlet of Marlboro. It is bordered on the west by the town of Shawangunk (Ulster County) which includes the hamlet of Wallkill and by the town of Montgomery (Orange County), which includes the villages of Walden, Montgomery and Maybrook. The entire southern boundary is with the town of New Windsor (Orange County) with the exception of a 4.8-square-mile (12 km2) quadrant, nearly a perfect quadrilateral in shape, adjoining the town at its southeast corner. This is the city of Newburgh. The eastern boundary of the town of Newburgh is the Hudson River, which separates it from the Dutchess County towns of Poughkeepsie, Wappinger, and Fishkill.

Topography

The town of Newburgh has a hilly terrain. Although bounded on the east by the Hudson River, access to that river is severely limited from the town because most of the shoreline is typified by steep bluffs.

Several hills in the town of Newburgh exceed 750 feet (230 m) above sea level. The southern tip of Marlboro Mountain, most of which including the summit is located in Ulster County, extends southward into the town of Newburgh east of Pressler Road and west of Frozen Ridge Road. While the peak of the mountain in Ulster County is over 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level, the southernmost extremity of the mountain in the town of Newburgh is over 750 feet (230 m). Fox Hill, in the northwestern corner of the town near the boundary with the town of Shawangunk, also exceeds 750 feet (230 m). Its sister peak of Kings Hill, across Route 300, is also over 750 feet (230 m) high. Straddling the border with the town of Shawangunk, it is dominated by a large Christian cross, lit at night, erected and maintained at the summit by the private property owner.

The most prominent elevation in the town, due to its central location, is Cronomer Hill. The summit of Cronomer Hill, the name of which derives from an Indian chief who allegedly lived atop the hill during Revolutionary War times, is 725 feet (221 m) above sea level. Most of Cronomer Hill is now a park owned and maintained by Orange County and remains heavily forested. The summit, accessible by auto via a road intersecting with Route 32, features an observation tower from which can be seen views of major portions of the mid Hudson Valley, including the Newburgh Beacon Bridge in its entirely, much of Dutchess County across the Hudson, and major portions of Stewart Airport to the southwest, as well as much of the city of Newburgh and town of New Windsor. A cell phone tower is at the summit of Cronomer Hill.

Another prominent elevation in the town is Prospect Hill, behind Fostertown School, about 710 feet (220 m) above sea level. Prospect Hill is traversed on its eastern side by Frozen Ridge Road, so called due to the name popularly given to the steep ridge north of Prospect Hill.

Interestingly, Prospect Hill Road is in the extreme northwest corner of the town of Newburgh, nowhere near Prospect Hill itself.

The two Rossville hills flank either side of New York Route 32 just south of the town border, near the intersection with East Road. They are each about 600 feet (180 m) above sea level. Other elevations in the town of Newburgh worthy of mention are Soap Hill and Cedar Cliff, each overlooking the Hudson in the extreme northeast corner of town. Although each is less than 400 feet (120 m) above sea level, their close proximity to the Hudson River renders them picturesque.[9]

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
17902,365—
18003,25837.8%
18104,62742.0%
18205,81225.6%
18306,42410.5%
18408,93339.1%
185011,42527.9%
186015,19633.0%
18703,541−76.7%
18803,91810.6%
18904,54316.0%
19004,246−6.5%
19105,13220.9%
19204,034−21.4%
19305,07225.7%
19406,09220.1%
19508,68642.6%
196015,54779.0%
197021,59338.9%
198022,7475.3%
199024,0585.8%
200022,866−5.0%
201029,80130.3%
Est. 201430,584[10]2.6%
U.S. Decennial Census[11]

As of the census[12] of 2000, there were 27,568 people, 9,765 households, and 7,519 families residing in the town. The population density was 631.0 people per square mile (243.6/km²). There were 10,122 housing units at an average density of 231.7 per square mile (89.5/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 85.08% White, 7.56% Black or African American, 0.15% Native American, 2.06% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 3.07% from other races, and 2.06% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 9.59% of the population.

There were 9,765 households out of which 36.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.6% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 23.0% were non-families. 17.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80 and the average family size was 3.19.

In the town the population was spread out with 26.2% under the age of 18, 6.6% from 18 to 24, 30.1% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 12.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 96.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.7 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $60,017, and the median income for a family was $66,706. Males had a median income of $45,398 versus $32,432 for females. The per capita income for the town was $24,749. About 2.4% of families and 3.8% of the population were below the poverty line, including 2.8% of those under age 18 and 6.5% of those age 65 or over.

History

Newburgh was originally settled in 1709 by German Palatine refugees under the name of Neuburg, who were soon supplemented by a significant number of Scottish immigrants. It was chartered as a Precinct in 1762. It was while Newburgh was a Precinct, during the closing months of the American Revolutionary War, that General George Washington established his headquarters at the Hasbrouck House in what is now the city of Newburgh. It was during this time that the Newburgh letter was written by Lewis Nicola and the Newburgh Conspiracy took place. Newburgh was rechartered as a town in 1788. At that time, it was a part of Ulster County. In 1798, the town of Newburgh and several other towns in southern Ulster County were transferred to Orange County, to compensate for the southernmost part of Orange County being cut away to form Rockland County. The town of Newburgh has remained a part of Orange County ever since.[13] The village of Newburgh was incorporated in 1800.[14] Then as now, villages in New York State remained a part of their parent towns.[15] However, when the village was re-chartered as the city of Newburgh in 1865,[14] it became totally independent of the town.[15]

The town of Newburgh remained overwhelmingly rural and sparsely populated until well into the 20th Century. There were many apple orchards in the northern part of the town, and dairy and vegetable farms in the remainder of the town. It is believed one of the largest was Brookside Dairy Farm, just west of the city of Newburgh on the north side of the old Newburgh-Cochecton Turnpike (now Route 17K). The farm was owned by the Stewart family (which gave both Stewart Avenue on the site and Stewart International Airport their names) and ran as far north as South Plank Road, now also known as Route 52. It was known in its day for its state of the art facilities which produced dairy products in an innovative and scientific way. The farm also included an ice business on the banks of Brookside Pond. After World War II, the southern part of the farm became a popular drive-in theater, and the northern part was the site of a baseball stadium known as Tarr Oval, which was used by the Newburgh Little League for many years.[16] The Pepsico bottling plant and corporate offices are now located on the site of Tarr Oval.

Since Orange Lake is nearly 600 feet above sea level, its outlet stream (sometimes called Bushfield Creek) powered many varied mills as it wound its way to the Hudson River, including a saw mill, grist mill and coinage mill right at the outlet from the lake, all owned by Thomas Machin. A flour mill stood where the stream now travels beneath Route 300. In a different part of town, the Gidney family operated a grist mill on Gidneytown Creek. Today, the site of the Gidney Mill is owned by the town, and the old brick chimney from the mill remains standing and is marked by an historic site marker. The Animal Control center for the town is also located on this property. The old gunpowder mills in what is now Algonquin Park today serve as the focal point of the only historic district in the town. For many years, there was a bleachery owned by the Chadwick Family.[17]

In the 19th century, hamlets sprung up throughout the town, between farms. These were small communities which (typically) consisted of a general store, a church, sometimes a cemetery, and a post office, quite often in the home of the postmaster or as part of the general store. Each hamlet also included a few scattered homes, often of tradespeople. These hamlets are described in Communities and Locations section of this article.

The population of the town of Newburgh was only 4,246 in 1900 and 6,092 in 1940, on the eve of World War II. However, after World War II the population skyrocketed as more and more farmland and forestland was converted to housing developments. Many of the new residents of the town in the 1940s and 1950s were World War II veterans who were able to purchase their own homes under the provisions of the G.I. Bill. Also, the booming economy after World War II allowed many families to afford to purchase automobiles, which made residency in the suburbs away from central city cores practical for the first time. In addition, parents of baby boomer children desired to raise these children in a suburban or rural atmosphere as opposed to crowded city life.

Also after World War II, the costs of continued farming, especially shipping costs, made farming more and more unprofitable. Many farm owners subdivided their farms for home building, and some were forced by financial reasons to do so. This post-World War II housing explosion pretty well petered out by the time of the energy crisis and recession in the early to mid-1970s. This lull in new housing was also a result of the departure of many major employers who left the city of Newburgh and other surrounding communities to relocate in southern states, where the cost of labor was much cheaper. This exodus of local employment climaxed with the closing of Stewart Air Force Base — by far the region's largest employer — in 1970. There are several housing developments — Wedgewood Park being perhaps the most prominent example — which received subdevelopment and building approval in the 1960s but were not actually built until many years later.

Home building started again in the late 1980s as more and more New York City, Westchester County, and Rockland County residents fled urban sprawl and spiraling tax rates. While in the 1950s and 1960s a drive of two to three hours one way to commute to work was unacceptable, by the 1990s many people considered it routine.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the town grew by 3,000 just in the five-year period from 2000 to 2005 alone.[18] Since 2000, homes in virtually every part of the town are being built on lots which twenty years ago were considered unsuitable for this purpose.

The town is less and less a residential suburb for local employees and more and more a "bedroom" community for commuters to jobs outside the region.

In 1960, the population was 15,547. It went over 20,000 by 1970, and nearly exceeded 30,000 in the 21st century.[19]

On January 5, 2010, the United States Census Bureau opened an office at 1437 Route 300, just south of the intersection with Route 52, which oversaw the 2010 census count in Orange, Sullivan and Delaware Counties.[20]

While the census count in 2010 showed that, for the first time in history the population of the Town of Newburgh exceeded that of the city of Newburgh, the population increase was not sufficient to render the Town the most populous municipality in Orange County. The towns of Monroe and Warwick, located in the southern part of Orange County in the path of commuter routes, both greatly exceeded the Town of Newburgh in 2010, despite both being rural farm communities of less than 10,000 each fifty years earlier.[2]

Government

The old building on the corner of NY 300 and Gardnertown Road dates back to the early 20th century and was originally Gardnertown Elementary School. When the current school, now called Gardnertown Magnet School, was built in the mid-1950s, this building became Newburgh Town Hall. It remained so until 1973, when the current Town Hall was built right next door. At that point, the historic old building became Police Headquarters. When the current police headquarters was built in the late 1980s, adjacent but in the other direction, facing Gardnertown Road, this building became a secondary Town Hall, housing the Code Compliance, Building, Zoning, and Planning Board offices.

Like all of the 932 towns within New York, Newburgh is governed by a Town Board. In Newburgh, the Board consists of four Councilpersons, and a Town Supervisor who presides and exercises limited executive authority. The Supervisor is elected to a two-year term, in odd numbered years. The four Councilpersons are elected to four-year terms, but are staggered so that two are elected in each odd numbered year. A Town Clerk is also elected to a two-year term, concurrent with the Supervisor, and a Receiver of Taxes is elected to a four-year term. Unlike most Towns in New York State, the Assessor of Real Property is not an elected official, but is appointed by the Town Board. Likewise the Superintendent of Highways is appointed, not elected. Two Town Justices are elected to four-year terms: one in odd numbered years; the other (due to a midterm death in 1997) in even numbered years. The Town Justices (formerly called Justices of the Peace) are the chief judicial officials of the Town, and since 1963 no longer sit as members of the Town Board, as had previously been the case.[21][22]

Newburgh is one of twenty towns in Orange County. (There are also three cities in Orange County.) Despite its size, it is one of only eight towns in the county to contain no incorporated villages.

Public officials

As of January 20, 2016

School districts

An 1875 map on display at Town Hall indicates that at that time 14 different school districts existed in Newburgh, each of which had its own schoolhouse, each of which elected its own school board, and each of which hired its own teachers.[17][27] As late as the mid-1950s, it was common in the town for one teacher to teach more than one grade in one classroom.

In the post World War II era, with the first explosion in population in the town (as the town began the transition from rural to suburban) as well as with "Baby boomers" beginning their schooling, the need came about for larger and more modern school buildings. During the 1950s, new elementary schools were built in Balmville, Gardnertown, East Coldenham, Leptondale and Union Grove. Fostertown School retained its older building, but the first of several modern additions was constructed in 1957.

Each of these elementary schools had their own locally elected school boards. Each had clearly defined boundaries which determined which elementary school each student would attend. Attendance at high school was not universal prior to World War II, but after that time most Newburgh students attended the two junior high schools (North Junior High and South Junior High) and one high school (Newburgh Free Academy, popularly known as NFA) in the city of Newburgh.

By 1960, the number of school districts shrank to nine. They were:

In 1963, the Newburgh Enlarged City School District was formed. It consisted of the entire city of Newburgh and most of the town of New Windsor. In addition, it absorbed the following school districts within the town of Newburgh: Balmville (District One), Orange Lake (District Three), Fostertown (District Four), Gardnertown (District Eight), and Union Grove (District Eleven).

Roseton (District Five) and Middle Hope (District Nine) joined the Unified Marlboro School District in Ulster County, much to the distress of the Newburgh School officials, who were counting on the tax revenue from the Central Hudson power plants in Roseton, which at the time consisted of about 55% of the total tax base in the town of Newburgh (today that ratio is about 32%).[28]

East Coldenham (District Ten) joined the Valley Central School District, centered in the town of Montgomery.

Leptondale (District Fourteen), due to physical proximity, always sent its students to Wallkill Middle School and Wallkill High School, in Ulster County, which is much closer than Newburgh Free Academy (NFA). For this reason, Leptondale is a part of the Wallkill Central School District. Both schools were built by the Borden family, of dairy fame. In fact, Wallkill Middle School was renamed John G. Borden School in 2004.[29]

This is why, to this day, there are four different school districts in the town of Newburgh – each of them headquartered in a different surrounding municipality.

The new Meadow Hill Elementary School, built in 1970 in what was at that time the fastest growing portion of the town, replaced Union Grove school, which was eventually demolished.

In the early 1970s, the courts mandated busing to achieve racial balance. In response, the elementary schools in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, including those within the town of Newburgh, became magnet schools. Geography no longer determines which elementary school each student attends.

School taxes in the Newburgh Enlarged City School District and in the Wallkill School District are still collected by school district tax collectors who are employees of those school districts. School taxes in these districts cannot be accepted by the Receiver of Taxes at Newburgh Town Hall. School taxes in the Marlboro and Valley Central School Districts, on the other hand, must be paid to the Town of Newburgh Receiver of Taxes because these school districts do not have their own tax collectors on their payrolls.[30]

There are a total of 13,027 taxable parcels of property in the town of Newburgh. They are located in the four school districts as follows:[31]

Fire departments

The town of Newburgh has never had a municipal, paid fire department. Fire fighting services have always been provided by Volunteer fire departments (VFDs).

Currently, the town is divided into four fire districts located entirely within the town boundaries, and two others which overlap into surrounding municipalities:

These fire companies provide not only fire protection to the residents and businesses of the Town with a high degree of professionalism and expertise, but also serve as focus points of social and cultural activities in the community.

A monument honoring the volunteer fire fighters of Newburgh was erected on the grounds of Town Hall in 1985.[32]

As the 21st century progresses, Newburgh is facing a crisis in regard to fire fighting services. As more and more of the total percentage of the town consists of commuters who work out of town, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit volunteer fire fighters. For over one hundred years, the volunteers would respond to the fire whistle and leave their homes or place of business to fight fires. This is impossible if the workplace is anywhere from 50 to 75 miles from Newburgh. Furthermore, people who commute several hours each day are not in a physical condition to go out and fight fires when they get home at night. As the older generation of volunteer fire fighters die off, the fire companies are facing a crisis in finding replacements. It appears as if the town of Newburgh will, someday, have to go to a paid fire fighting force, which will of course cause taxes to increase.

Transportation

Stewart International Airport

Stewart International Airport is located partially in the Town of Newburgh but mostly in the Town of New Windsor.[33][34]

U.S. Route 9W, New York Route 17K, New York Route 32, New York Route 52, New York Route 207 and New York Route 300 all pass through the town. Two roads in the Town of Newburgh are owned and maintained by Orange County: County Route 23 (known locally as Rock Cut Road and Forest Road) and County Route 86 (Fostertown Road). All other public roads are maintained by the Town Highway Department, headquartered at 90 Gardnertown Road. However, there are many private roads in the Town of Newburgh.

Interstate 84 passes through from east to west and has a junction with Interstate 87 (the New York State Thruway).

ZIP codes and postal services

Maps from the 19th century indicate that many hamlets in Newburgh had post offices of their own.[14] These post offices gradually disappeared after the introduction of Rural Free Delivery (RFD),[35] which was formally adopted nationwide in 1896.[36] The last local post office in the town to disappear was Roseton (zip code 12576) in the mid-1970s.[14]

Today, there is no main post office located anywhere in the town. All home and business mail delivery in the Town of Newburgh originates from post offices located in surrounding municipalities. For this reason, five different ZIP codes cover mail delivery in the town. Two additional ZIP codes cover post office box service, for a total of seven ZIP codes for the Town of Newburgh.

The top priority of the United States Postal Service nationwide is to provide as efficient and prompt mail delivery as is possible. When Rural Free Delivery came into being, in order to achieve this goal, the U.S. Postal Service could and did often ignore municipal and governmental boundaries when establishing delivery routes. The governing principle was: which post office is the closest to the patron? It was not: which post office is in the same municipality as the patron. This carried over with the establishment of zip code zones in the 1960s. Throughout the nation it is not at all uncommon for an address to be assigned a zip code which does not match the municipality in which it is located.

These currently are the mail delivery (ZIP code) zones in the town of Newburgh:

Difficulties and confusion have arisen for businesses, individuals and even governmental agencies that are not aware that the City of Newburgh ZIP code, 12550, does not cover the entire Town of Newburgh.[38]

Despite its large population, there is currently no post office within the municipal limits of the Town which serves the needs of its residents and businesses. From 1978 until July 31, 2012, there was a contract station located in a strip mall at 190 South Plank Road (Route 52) in the hamlet of Gardnertown immediately east of Route 300. A contract station is a postal facility owned and operated by a private individual or corporation under the terms of a contract negotiated with the Postal Service. A contract station is privately owned with private employees. They are privately paid and not paid by the Postal Service or the taxpayers. The town of Newburgh contract station was a branch of the Newburgh post office (with a ZIP code of 12550), and offered most of the services provided at main post offices, including post office box rentals, and was open for business five and a half days a week (half days Saturday). Also, they did not accept mail addressed to international addresses.[39] Mail delivery did not originate from this branch post office. Outgoing mail was picked up from this post office twice a day weekdays and once on weekends and taken to the Sectional Center Facility on Enterprise Drive for further processing. In early 2012, it was announced that the owner could not comply with new requirements in the contract with the Postal Service, and accordingly the post office was shut down, despite protests from public officials including the Congressman, the U.S. Senators, and the Town Council.[40]

The U. S. Postal Service Mid Hudson Sectional Center Facility, which is the processing and regional distribution center for all ZIP codes which begin with "124", "125", "126" and "127", is located on Enterprise Drive in the extreme southwest corner of Town, within the boundaries of Stewart Airport. While technically located within the town of Newburgh, it is only 1/4 mile north of the boundary with the town of New Windsor. Its only access to the town of Newburgh is from Route 17K via Governor Drive immediately east of the exit 6 interchange with Interstate 84. It contains the only bulk mail postal facility within the region. It opened on May 7, 1991, in a modern newly constructed building,[41] replacing a previous, smaller sectional center facility located in Wappingers Falls. A post office on premises offers the full range of postal services, but was open only five days a week. When the Town post office on South Plank Road was closed in July 2012, the Stewart facility began opening from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Post office boxes are available and accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The ZIP code for post office boxes at this facility is 12552.[42] The ZIP code 12555 is prominently displayed on the outside of the building and on the pillar at the entrance to the driveway, but apparently has never been actually put into use. In early 2014, the U.S. Postal Service closed the mail sorting facility at Stewart Airport. All sorting of all mail from the "125" zip code area is now done in Albany.

Communities and locations in the town

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