Crescent Station is a

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of the

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of Colonie in Albany County,

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, United States that straddles US Route 9.

History

Crescent Station takes its name from a stop on the

Schenectady and Troy Railroad The Troy & Schenectady Railroad was incorporated May 21, 1836. The stock was divided into five hundred shares at one hundred dollars each. The building of the road began in 1841, and trains began running from Schenectady to Troy, New York in the ...

(T&S), later a branch of the

New York Central Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midw ...

. The T&S Line was completed in 1842, and owned by the nearby

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. Passenger service ended in 1942, though a Ford tractor branch in Crescent continued to receive service. In 1965, service between Crescent Station and

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was cut, and then when the

Green Island Bridge The Green Island Bridge crosses the Hudson River in New York, connecting Green Island with Troy, passing through Starbuck Island. It opened September 12, 1981. History The original Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad bridge was a wood-truss cove ...

was converted from rail to automobile use service was cut to Troy in 1958. Service between Crescent Station and Green Island was abandoned in 1976. It is now part of the

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Geography

Colonie's town landfill is located at the north end of the hamlet, near the border with Cohoes and the Mohawk River. The Colonie Town Park is to the west, between Crescent Station and the Colonie hamlet of Dunsbach Ferry.

Location

References

External links

Town of Colonie
(includes Crescent Station) {{Albany County, New York Colonie, New York Hamlets in New York (state) Hamlets in Albany County, New York