Rensselaer, New York
US 9 and 20 entering Rensselaer, with Albany's horizon looming athwart the Hudson River Official name: City of Rensselaer Name origin: From Kiliaen van Rensselaer, patroon of the region County Rensselaer Rensselaer County New York incorporated and unincorporated areas Rensselaer highlighted.svg Location in Rensselaer County and the state of New York.
Wikimedia Commons: Rensselaer, New York Rensselaer /r ns l r/ is a town/city in Rensselaer County, New York, United States, and is positioned on the Hudson River directly opposite Albany.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 9,392. Rensselaer is on the west border of the county.
The Van Rensselaer family, which were the feudal landholders of the entire future Rensselaer County assembled a residence in the future town/city of Rensselaer.
This property was inherited by Hendrick van Rensselaer, Kiliaen van Rensselaer's grandson, who assembled Fort Crailo in approximately 1712. It was assembled on the site of where Dominie Megapolensis assembled his own home in 1642. Crailo was period in 1762-1768.
This was purchased in May 1810 by William Akin, Titus Goodman and John Dickinson from Stephen Van Rensselaer and Stephen N.
Van Rensselaer.
A new charter was granted in 1828, which was amended in 1854, and again in 1863, and a new charter in 1871. In 1897, Greenbush was chartered as a city, and its name was changed to Rensselaer.
In the 19th century Rensselaer became the site of the Boston & Albany Railroad's (B&A) passenger depot, shops, freight homes, roundhouse, and coach yard.
A ferry transported citizens to and from the Van Rensselaer Island and downtown Albany at Maiden Lane.
In 1882 the Hudson River Aniline and Color Works assembled their first plant in Rensselaer (building 61), however it burned 13 years later.
In 1895 Building 61 was rebuilt and at the same time Building 71 was assembled as well. It would be acquired by the Bayer Corporation in 1903, which then assembled one of the biggest and most up-to-date factories of its time in the US and the Rensselaer plant became the American home for the manufacturing of brand-name Aspirin. The US government seized the property in 1917 amid World War I as enemy property, Bayer being a German company. It would later be owned by the General Aniline and Film Company, and then BASF. In 1927 it was the first plant to produce solid diazo salts in the United States. The plant went through 12 separate owners or subsidiaries in its lifetime, in the 1990s it was the earliest dye plant in continuous operation and also produced more dye than any other plant in the United States. According to a promotional brochure issued around 1993 by the BASF Corporation the Rensselaer plant was the biggest North American dyestuffs manufacturing facility. The plant was shut down for good on December 28, 2000.
In 1932 next to the BASF plant, the Port of Albany-Rensselaer was built, mostly in neighboring Albany, but also with 35 acres (140,000 m2) in the southern part of Rensselaer.
The docks on the Rensselaer side were assembled in the 1970s. The stubs at the Dunn Memorial Bridge's Rensselaer end, assembled for the cancelled South Mall Expressway extension to I-90 The 1960s were a primary time of change for the town/city of Rensselaer.
In 1967 the current Dunn Memorial Bridge was assembled between Albany and Rensselaer.
Although the bridge was to continue east through Rensselaer, with the South Mall Arterial connecting with Interstate 90 at Exit 8, this extension never materialized.
In 1968 the Amtrak station in Albany (Union Station) was relocated to Rensselaer; the Maiden Lane Bridge and all the barns associated buildings were completed when in 1969 the Rensselaer City School high/middle school ground was assembled north of Quackenderry Creek.
The Rensselaer City School ground had prepared to redevelop as a mixed-use waterfront community, the developers (U.W.
Marx Construction) gave the school territory that had recently been took in from a neighboring town, now in the northern section of the city, and assembled a new school campus.
The new school replaced the Rensselaer Middle High School and Van Rensselaer Elementary, formerly Van Rensselaer High, as a K-12 facility.
The former Van Rensselaer High School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The Rensselaer Public Library serves the town/city of Rensselaer.
The library is a member of the Upper Hudson Library System, a resource-sharing consortium consisting of twenty-nine enhance libraries in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer.
The town/city lies next to the Hudson River with Albany County and the town/city of Albany on the opposite shore.
The town of North Greenbush borders the town/city to the north, and the town of East Greenbush is on the southern border; both suburbs border the town/city on the east with the dividing line between the two suburbs meeting Rensselaer in the middle section of the city's easterly boundary.
Rensselaer's southern border is even with the town/city of Albany's southern border, however the northern border of Rensselaer is slightly south of Albany's corresponding northern border.
City of Albany Town of North Greenbush City of Rensselaer Rensselaer City Hall, the old Fort Crailo School Main article: Albany Rensselaer (Amtrak station) Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Rensselaer, to Albany, the state capital, and to close-by Troy, through a station designated in the Amtrak timetable as Albany-Rensselaer.
Six Empire Service trains run from Albany-Rensselaer to New York City on weekday mornings and a several depart for New York in the evening, returning and terminating at Albany-Rensselaer in the afternoon and late evening.
The Ethan Allen, a train supported by Vermont and New York State, runs north from New York City through Rensselaer to Rutland, Vermont.
The Adirondack runs from New York City through Rensselaer to Montreal.
The Maple Leaf runs from New York City through Rensselaer to Buffalo and Toronto.
One section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited long distance train originates in New York City and one section originates in Boston.
New York Supplement: Volume 58.
"History of Internal Growth of BASF Rensselaer Plant".
"BASF Rensselaer Descriptive Brochure ca.
Landmarks of Rensselaer County New York.
Troy and Rensselaer County New York: A History.
History of Rensselaer Co., New York with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
History of the Seventeen Towns of Rensselaer County from the Colonization of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck to the Present Time.
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