Amsterdam (city), New York "Amsterdam, New York"
Amsterdam Amsterdam NY Location inside Montgomery County and the state of New York Location inside Montgomery County and the state of New York State New York Website City of Amsterdam website Amsterdam is a town/city in Montgomery County, New York, United States.
The name is derived from the town/city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The town/city of Amsterdam is surrounded on the north, east, and west sides by the town of Amsterdam.
The town/city developed on both sides of the Mohawk River, with the majority positioned on the north bank.
8.1 Mayors of Amsterdam Anglo-American inhabitants changed the name to Amsterdam in 1803.
It was incorporated as a village on April 20, 1830 from a section of the Town of Amsterdam.
New charters in 1854, 1865, and 1875 increased the size of the village. In 1885, Amsterdam became a city, which later increased in size by annexation of the former village of Port Jackson on the south side of the Mohawk River; it became the fifth ward of the city.
In 1865, the populace of Amsterdam was 5,135. By 1920, it was 33,524.
Amsterdam experienced serious flooding damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene in late August 2011.
Several historic buildings and sites that are mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries, including the Amsterdam (46th Separate Company) Armory, Amsterdam City Hall, Gray-Jewett House, Green Hill Cemetery, Greene Mansion, Guy Park, Guy Park Avenue School, Saint Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church Complex, Temple of Israel, United States Post Office, and Vrooman Avenue School, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Chalmers Knitting Mills was added in 2010. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.3 square miles (16.3 km ), of which, 5.9 square miles (15.4 km ) of it is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km ) of it is water.
The town/city developed on both sides of the Mohawk River and Erie Canal.
The Chuctanunda River flows into the Mohawk from the north at Amsterdam.
New York State Route 30, a north-south highway called Market Street in part, crosses the Mohawk River to link the chief part of Amsterdam to the New York State Thruway.
NY-30 also intersects east-west highways New York State Route 5 and New York State Route 67 in the city.
New York State Route 5 - S passes along the south side of the Mohawk River.
Amsterdam is presently inside New York's 20th congressional district.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 80.4% White (68.1% Non Hispanic White), 3.8% Black or African American, 0.6% Native American, 0.9% Asian, 0% Pacific Islander and 3.4% from two or more competitions.
In the city, 25.0% of the citizens were under the age of 18 and 15.8% were age 65 or older. The median income for a homehold in the city, based on data from 2007 to 2011, was $38,699. In the 19th century, the town/city of Amsterdam was known for carpet, textile, and pearl button manufacturing.
It continued to be a center for carpet-making in the 20th century, when the Bigelow-Sanford and Mohawk Mills Carpet companies both were positioned in Amsterdam, but these companies have relocated to other regions.
Amsterdam was also the home of Coleco, manufacturers of the Coleco - Vision, Cabbage Patch Kids and the Coleco Adam.
Founded in 1932 as the Connecticut Leather Company, Coleco went bankrupt in 1988 after a floundered attempt to enter the electronics market, and pulled out of Amsterdam, as well as its other North American manufacturing sites.
The enclosed shopping center is titled the Amsterdam Riverfront Center.
Media in Amsterdam includes one print newspaper, The Recorder, an online newspaper, The Mohawk Valley Compass, and two AM airways broadcasts, WVTL and WCSS.
Amsterdam's former National Guard Armory, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been adapted for use as a bed and breakfast inn called Amsterdam Castle.
Amsterdam's municipal golf course was designed by Robert Trent Jones.
The town/city is home to the Amsterdam Mohawks baseball team of the Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League.
The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame was positioned in Amsterdam until November 2015, when it relocated to Wichita Falls, Texas.
The Mohawk Valley Gateway Overlook pedestrian bridge spans the Mohawk River and joins the city's Bridge Street downtown region on the south shore and Riverlink Park on the north shore.
First Baptist Church of Amsterdam (Baptist) Stanislaus Church, Amsterdam, New York Amsterdam High School (part of the Greater Amsterdam School District, positioned in the Town of Amsterdam) Amsterdam's government consists of a town/city council and a mayor.
Greene Mansion, Amsterdam.
Notable natives or inhabitants of Amsterdam include: Benedict Arnold (1780 1849), United States Congressman from New York Felix Joseph Aulisi, New York Supreme Court Justice, Appellate Division Bovee, United States Congressman from New York Charles Dayan, United States Congressman from New York and former Lieutenant Governor of New York Mary Anne Krupsak, New York State Lieutenant Governor Edmund Machold, Speaker of the New York State Assembly Marilyn Hall Patel, federal judge for United States District Court for the Northern District of California, vacated the conviction of Fred Korematsu of the 1944 Supreme Court ruling in Korematsu v.
Paul Tonko, Congressional Representative from New York, former New York State Assemblyman Ruth Zakarian, Miss New York Teen USA 1983, Miss Teen USA 1983 a b c Hamilton Child, History of Amsterdam, New York; Syracuse, New York 1869 "Manor That Has Stood for Centuries Teeters in Storm's Wake", New York Times, September 2, 2011 "National Register of Historic Places Listings".
"Amsterdam, New York (city)" Quick - Facts page from the U.S.
First Baptist Church of Amsterdam Archived May 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
Marie Curie Institute of Engineering & Communications Archived October 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
Amsterdam High School Archived December 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
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