Capital Region
Pittstown, New York
Pittstown is a town in Rensselaer County, in New York's Capital Region region, home to about 5,500 people as of the 2020 census.
Like the rest of upstate New York, an assessed value here usually isn't the market value; the state's equalization rate reconciles the two. The local rate is below, and the STAR program can lower the school-tax part of the bill.
- Type
- Town
- County
- Rensselaer
- Region
- Capital Region
- Population (2020)
- 5,540
Local Almanac
Notes in and around Pittstown
Short, sourced notes tied to this place, its county, or nearby communities.
This place · History & Culture
Pittstown Keeps Its Old Patent Story in the Hills
Pittstown carries a 1761 patent story, William Pitt name, hill-country landscape, and Tomhannock Reservoir edge.
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Waterford Is Where Canals Stack Up
Waterford's identity comes from the Hudson-Mohawk meeting point, Erie and Champlain Canal layers, and the famous flight of locks.
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Hoosick's Farm-Implement Past Lives in the Louis Miller Museum
Hoosick's historical society preserves Walter Wood Company material, pointing to the town's nineteenth-century farm-implement industry beyond the battlefield story.
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Mechanicville Has an Old Canal Under Its Streets
Mechanicville's local story connects the Champlain Canal, Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, mills, and Hudson-side movement.
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Schaghticoke Connects Dutch Houses to Hoosic Water Power
Schaghticoke's local memory runs through Dutch farmhouses, Native place names, the Hoosic River, and mill-era village growth.
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Hoosick Falls: where Grandma Moses got her start
The folk painter Grandma Moses lived, painted, and is buried here, and the village sits in Revolutionary War country near Bennington Battlefield.
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Grafton Lakes Turns the Plateau Into a Four-Season Park Town
Grafton Lakes brings six ponds, Long Pond beach, trout water, trail miles, and winter use to a forested Rensselaer plateau.
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Hoosick Holds the Bennington Battle on New York Ground
Hoosick's Revolutionary War story comes from Walloomsac, where the Bennington Battlefield story actually sits in New York.
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Waterford's island park makes the Mohawk-Hudson meeting visible
Peebles Island gives Waterford a public landscape where Mohawk and Hudson river geography is easy to read.
Read this note ->Property tax snapshot
Roughly $20–$24 per $1,000
Combined full-value rate — county + town/city + school district, per $1,000 of market value (FY2025). On a $300,000 home that's about $6,143–$7,098 a year before the STAR break.
A planning estimate, not a bill. Your exact rate depends on your school district and any village. Confirm with the assessor.
Statewide links
Statewide starting points.
Good to know
- • Your assessed value usually isn't your market value — ask for the equalization rate.
- • Register for STAR; new applicants generally receive a credit instead of an automatic exemption on the bill.
- • Outside the cities, check the well, the septic, and the FEMA flood map before you buy.
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Tax rates: NYS Dept of Taxation & Finance (ORPTS), Real Property Tax Rates and Levy Data by Municipality, data.ny.gov dataset iq85-sdzs. (FY2025). Population: U.S. Census 2020. Reviewed June 2026. Source data ->
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