Verdoy is an Upstate New York hamlet in northern Albany County at the northwest corner of the Town of Colonie. While Colonie's hamlets do not have specifically demarcated borders, Verdoy is generally considered to include the areas along New York State Highway 7, west of the Colonie hamlet of Latham and between Albany International Airport and the Mohawk River. The Verdoy Schoolhouse was built in 1910 and is a good example of the early one-room schools built in the Town of Colonie until the 1950's.
It is on the National Registry of Historic Places, but it is no longer located in Verdoy: in 1995 the North Colonie Central Schools district donated the schoolhouse to the Town of Colonie and it was moved to the Pruyn House location, where it has been restored as a living memorial to the Town's Centennial. Much of Verdoy is in the Airport Noise Overlay District due to its immediate proximity to Albany International Airport's main north/south runway, which was recently extended by 1,300 feet to the north, moving it even closer to Verdoy. The former Troy & Schenectady Branch of the New York Central Railroad runs along Verdoy's northern border with the Mohawk River; it is now part of the Mohawk-Hudson Bike Path.
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