Main city: Kinderhook
Timezone: Eastern
Phone type: Landline
Operator: Berkshire Telephone Co.

Kinderhook, a town in the northern part of Columbia County, New York, United States. The population was 8,498 at the 2010 census. The name of the town means "Children's Corner" in the language of the original Dutch settlers (Kinderhoek). The town of Kinderhook contains two villages, one of which is also named Kinderhook, where the eighth President of the USA, Martin Van Buren was born; the other is the village of Valatie. In addition, the Town contains the hamlet of Niverville, including Kinderhook Lake. President Martin Van Buren's retirement home, Lindenwald, is in the town of Kinderhook. ^source

Area code 518 is a telephone area code in eastern upstate New York, established as one of the original area codes in 1947. It covers 24 counties and 1,200 ZIP codes. It has 493 landline and 100 wireless exchanges serviced by 47 carriers. It is the largest area code in size in New York, extending from the eastern Mohawk Valley to the Vermont border, and from the Canadian border to south of Albany. The bulk of the area code's population is located in the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady and Troy). Other major cities in the area code are Glens Falls and Plattsburgh. ^source