Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Amsterdam, NY

Amsterdam is a city in Montgomery County, New York - the largest and most populous city in the county - located about 35 miles northwest of Albany on the Mohawk River.

The city straddles the Mohawk River: most of Amsterdam sits on the north bank, while the Port Jackson neighborhood occupies the south side.

Dutch settlers reached the Amsterdam area around 1710, and the community was first called Veeders Mills and Veedersburgh after early mill owner Albert Veeder; it took the name Amsterdam, after the Dutch capital, in 1803.

Amsterdam was incorporated as a village on April 20, 1830, and became a city in 1885, annexing Rockton and the former village of Port Jackson, which became its fifth ward.

The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, along with the Mohawk Turnpike and the railroad, turned Amsterdam into a manufacturing boomtown powered by the creeks running down from the Adirondack foothills.

Amsterdam became known as the Rug City - it grew into the carpet and rug manufacturing center of the United States, home to the Bigelow-Sanford and Mohawk Mills carpet companies; a 1925 history of the Mohawk Valley ranked Amsterdam first in America in broom manufacture and second in rugs, carpets and pearl buttons.

Coleco, the toy and video game company behind ColecoVision and the Cabbage Patch Kids craze, was founded in Amsterdam in 1932 as the Connecticut Leather Company.

Guy Park, a stone Georgian mansion built in 1773 by Guy Johnson, nephew of Sir William Johnson, is preserved in Amsterdam and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Sanford Clock Tower of 1922 remains a downtown landmark.

Amsterdam had a population of 18,219 at the 2020 census, with 7,579 households - down from a peak of 34,817 residents in 1930, before the carpet mills shifted jobs to the South after World War II.

Amsterdam is a notably diverse small city: 33.5% of its residents were Hispanic or Latino in the 2020 census.