Like the town, the village is named after an early settler, Lawrence (Lewis) Frank.

Frankfort is on the south side of the Erie Canal and east of Utica, New York.

The Frankfort Town Hall and United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

31.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% were someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Male full-time workers had a median income of $38,063 versus $34,635 for females.

[7] Over the same time period, 40.8% of Frankfort residents reported having Italian ancestry.