Greene County NY Waterfront Properties For Sale

Greene County NY waterfront properties include Sleepy Hollow Lake in Athens and Coxsackie, Greene Lake in Athens and the Hudson River as it runs through Catskill, Athens, Coxsackie and New Baltimore. Also, properties along the tributaries of the Hudson River and the various lakes and ponds. Greene County waterfront properties have a limited number of large fishing lakes: Green Lake in Athens; Colgate Lake in Jewett and North-South Lake in Hunter, it has many smaller lakes and ponds.

Greene County NY Waterfront Properties For Sale

The enhanced Sleepy Hollow Lake in the Towns of Athens and Coxsackie is a major lakefront property with hundreds of homes on and off the lake. The community provides water & sewer to a variety of lakefront and lake access lots. Additional amenities include a pool house, beach, tennis courts and other athletic facilities. When compared to waterfront properties in the adjoining counties of Ulster and Columbia, Greene County NY is usually seen as more “affordable.”

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Greene County NY Waterfront Properties For Sale

Greene County was formed by an act of the New York State Legislature on March 25, 1800. It included the townships of Catskill, Coxsackie, Freehold and Durham, with a population of about 13,000. By 1852, the present pattern of towns and villages had emerged, following a series of subdivisions and merges. Today, Greene County consists of 14 towns and 5 villages.

The river towns and villages flourished as boat building, brick making and milling centers. As well as serving as supply points for inland settlers. In the mountains, several communities developed as tanning sites, utilizing the now depleted stock of hemlock forest.

By the mid-nineteenth century Greene County New York real estate was becoming a fashionable resort area catering to the upper class. It was marked by competition between the Catskill Mountain House and Hotel Kaaterskill for the tourist trade. Although these resorts and the Otis Elevated Railway leading to them are no longer in operation, remnants of this era can be viewed in the Town of Hunter.

Greene County NY Waterfront Properties For Sale

Strategically located in the New York – Boston-Washington D.C. corridor with one-day access to 80 million consumers, Greene County is about 130 miles north of New York City and 30 miles south of Albany, NY.

The New York State Thruway (I-87) runs through the eastern edge of the county, and the Berkshire Spur going to the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) is 11 miles away with Boston within three hours. Greene County can be approached from the New York Metropolitan Area by I-87, with exits in Saugerties (Ulster County), Catskill and Coxsackie/New Baltimore. It can also be reach from the Taconic Parkway, by taking State Route 82 (just past Lake Taghkanic State Park) west across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.