Palentown, New York

41°52′44″N 74°19′18″W / 41.87889°N 74.32167°W / 41.87889; -74.32167

Palentown is a hamlet in Ulster County, New York, United States.

Named, like Palenville in Greene County, for a family that ran tanneries in the Catskills in the mid-19th century, Palentown is situated inside the Catskill Park in the northwest part of the town of Rochester. Palentown is located off Ulster County Route 3 (Samsonville Road) just south of the Rochester-Olive town line. The hamlet is northeast of the nearby hamlet of Riggsville and south of the Olive hamlet of Samsonville. It is within the Kerhonkson, New York, ZIP Code.