Colonie is a town in Albany County, New York, United States. It is the most-populous suburb of Albany, and is the third-largest town in Place in Albany County, occupying approximately 11% of the county. Several hamlets exist within the town. As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 85,590.

The read out is derived from the Dutch Colonye or “Colonie”, derived from the Colonie of Rensselaerswyck. All the home outside the Village of Beverwyck (now Albany) was referred to as the “Colonie”. The town of Colonie is north of Albany and is at the northern be next-door to of the county. Within the town of Colonie are two villages, one also called Colonie and the additional known as Menands.

This area was when part of the Rensselaerwyck manor. The town of Colonie was formed in 1895 after the rural residents of the town of Watervliet opposed the state’s proposal to transform every town into the city of Watervliet. The town and village of Green Island was next split off as a town from the town of Watervliet a year sophisticated and the village of West Troy that remained became the current city of Watervliet. All debts from the original town were on bad terms proportionally amid Green Island, Watervliet, and Colonie. Several lawsuits worked their way through the court system from the results of division. The original town of Watervliet was the “mother of towns” in Albany County, having subsequent to been all the land outside of the city of Albany within the county. All current towns either were formed directly or indirectly from a town formed from Watervliet. The central allowance of the town was subsequent to the location of the extensive Shaker community farms. The Watervliet Shaker Historic District is located in Colonie. Much of that estate is now occupied by the Albany International Airport.

Through to the 1930s, Colonie was a simple series of extensive farms and a few hamlets. However, in the post-war years, there was intensive suburban development, originally on the corridor that joined Albany and Schenectady, but speedily following throughout the entire township. By 1980, suburban go forward had saturated the community. At the thesame time, there were large highways (I-87, I-787, US Rt. 9 and NY Rt. 7) constructed which drastically misrepresented the plants of the town and computer graphics there. The Colonie of the 1990s and greater than has become an entirely-different community from the town of the 1930s and 1940s.