Cold Brook, NY

Cold Brook is a village in Herkimer County, New York. The 2020 census counted 250 residents. Cold Brook is named after a stream passing through the village. The village is located in the south part of Russia and is northeast of Utica. A newcomer can read Cold Brook through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Cold Brook comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The water power of Cold Brook encouraged settlers, who arrived after 1800. The 1857 Cold Brook Feed Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The village is on sloping terrain with occasionally steep roadways.