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East Greenbush is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of Albany. The population was 16,473 at the 2010 census. The word Greenbush is derived from the Dutch het groen bosch, referring to the pine woods that originally covered the land. The first settlement of the estate now known as East Greenbush was made by tenants below patroon Kiliaen van Rensselaer circa 1630. The town was standard in 1855 as Clinton, and was renamed in 1858. It is mostly suburban along its major highways and rural in the southwestern and northeastern corners.

Interstate 90 traverses the town. It contains the western (or southern) terminus of US Route 4 and the northern terminus of NY Route 9J; as well as US Route 9 and US Route 20. The latter
run concurrently, under the name Columbia Turnpike, which is often referred to by the locals as “9 and 20.”

East Greenbush, at the get older part of the Town of Greenbush, was ration of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, and subsequently of Albany County, prior to the commencement of Rensselaer County in 1791. The town of Clinton was established upon February 23, 1855 from the town of Greenbush at the same time as the town of North Greenbush. On April 14, 1858, the town proclaim was tainted to East Greenbush by New York State Laws of 1858, Chapter 194.