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Sylvan Beach is a village in the southeastern end of the Town of Vienna in Oneida County, on the eastern shore of Oneida Lake about 22 miles west of Rome.

The community was founded around 1840, but the village was not incorporated until 1971, long after it became famous as a resort.

Railroads and ferries made Sylvan Beach a major 19th-century resort, and in its 1890s heyday it was known as the Coney Island of Central New York, with excursion trains bringing tens of thousands of visitors on busy summer weekends.

Sylvan Beach Amusement Park, dating to the late 1800s, still operates vintage rides, including Laffland, one of the few remaining walk-through dark rides of its kind in the country.

The village sits beside the Erie Canal, which made it a convenient shipping port for all of Oneida Lake in the 1820s.

Sylvan Beach had only 890 year-round residents at the 2020 census, down from 1,071 in 2000, even though its summer population swells far beyond that.

Of the village's 946 housing units counted in 2000, about a third were used only seasonally or for recreation, and there were 472 year-round households.

The village has a mile-long sandy beach, a bandstand, marinas, campgrounds and weekly summer events that draw boaters and fishing enthusiasts from across Central New York.

The Sylvan Beach Union Chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.