Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Wynantskill, NY

Wynantskill is a census-designated place and hamlet in the northeastern corner of the town of North Greenbush in Rensselaer County, New York, forming a suburb just northeast of the city of Troy.

Wynantskill takes its name from the Wynants Kill stream - 'kill' is the Dutch word for a stream - and the creek was named for Wynant Gerritse Vanderpoel, a 17th-century Dutch settler who held a part interest in a sawmill on its banks.

The community was first settled around the end of the 18th century, with a Dutch Reformed church established about 1794 and a post office opened in 1820.

Wynantskill's population jumped 23.6% in a single decade to 4,050 at the 2020 census, with residents living in 1,709 households.

Wynantskill has its own tiny school district - the Wynantskill Union Free School District runs only the Gardner-Dickinson School for grades PK-8, and the community has no high school, so teenagers choose among Troy High School, Averill Park, Tamarac, Columbia, or Tech Valley High School.

In 2026 Wynantskill voters approved dissolving their school district and merging it into the Troy City School District in 2027.

The hamlet has its own volunteer fire department, and State Route 66 - called Main Avenue in Wynantskill - is its main street, lined with a grocery store, banks, restaurants and the post office for ZIP code 12198.