East Randolph, NY

East Randolph is a hamlet, census-designated place, and former village in Cattaraugus County, New York, United States. The 2020 census counted 571 residents. East Randolph is adjacent to the northeast part of the former village of Randolph and is mostly within Randolph, with a small part inside Conewango. The first business opened in 1826, and a post office was opened in 1850; the post office closed in 2017. The short version is that East Randolph carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on East Randolph: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Van Rensselaer, a member of the famed Van Rensselaer family, relocated to the region. The hamlet is located on NY Route 394. NY Route 242 and County Road 7 enter the village from the east.