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Menands is a village in the Town of Colonie in Albany County, New York, bordering the northern city line of Albany along the west bank of the Hudson River.

Menands is named for Louis Menand, a gardener from Burgundy, France, who settled here in 1842 and built an important horticultural business famous for exotic plants such as camellias and orchids.

When the Albany and Northern Railroad was built through the area in 1856, it named its stop 'Menand's Crossing' because Menand was the only landowner in the area at the time.

Menands was incorporated as a village in 1924, after residents voted 167 to 47 amid rumors that the City of Albany planned to annex the area; the village celebrated the centennial of its incorporation in 2024.

Menands had a population of 4,554 at the 2020 census, living in 2,085 households within an area of about 3.3 square miles, and the village's motto is the 'Urban-Suburban Village.'

The original Erie Canal passed through what is now Menands, and the canal was completed through the Menands area in 1823.

A portion of Albany Rural Cemetery, the 467-acre burial ground founded in 1844 where President Chester A. Arthur is buried, lies within the village of Menands.

The Riverview Center on Broadway, a million-square-foot Art Deco building that began as a Montgomery Ward store and distribution center, is the tallest building in the Town of Colonie and today houses state workers and the video game developer Vicarious Visions.

Menands hosts the Capital District Farmers Market, run by the Capital District Cooperative, created in 1933, and one of the largest farmers markets in the region.

The Troy-Menands Bridge carries traffic across the Hudson River from Menands to the city of Troy.