Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Interlaken, NY

Interlaken is a village in the northern part of the town of Covert in Seneca County, New York, northwest of Ithaca in the Finger Lakes.

Interlaken takes its name from its position between two lakes — Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake — even though the village touches neither shoreline.

Interlaken was previously known as "Farmer Village" and simply "Farmer" before it was incorporated on March 2, 1904.

Interlaken got its current name in a bargain with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, which agreed to make the village a stop on its line between the lakes if the name were changed to something more marketable for tourism, and residents chose the name of Interlaken, Switzerland.

Interlaken's Main Street was repeatedly reshaped by fire, with major blazes in December 1880, February 1891 (when the Gambee House hotel burned), April 1926, and February 1939 (when the Robinson Hotel burned).

Interlaken had 595 residents at the 2020 census; at the 2010 census its 602 residents lived in 243 households, all packed into a village of just 0.3 square miles.

Interlaken's First Baptist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

Interlaken's village police department traces its origins to the village's incorporation in 1904, making it one of the oldest village police departments in New York State.

Interlaken hosts South Seneca Elementary School on Main Street, part of the South Seneca Central School District, whose middle and high school campus is in neighboring Ovid.