Gabriels, New York

Gabriels is a hamlet in the town of Brighton in Franklin County, New York, United States, inside the Adirondack Park near Paul Smiths.

The village developed around a tuberculosis cure facility, the Gabriels Sanatorium, which was opened in 1897 by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy.

Both the sanatorium and the hamlet were named for Henry Gabriels, a Belgian-born prelate who served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg.

The hamlet developed as the commercial center on a train depot serving the Adirondack Division of the New York Central line.

[1] Today, the hamlet remains the commercial center for the town of Brighton, with a post office, small businesses, a Catholic church, and farms.

Map of New York highlighting Franklin County