[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), all land.

Maybrook's lowest point is a swampy, undeveloped area in iterns northeast corner, 360 feet (110 m) in elevation.

In the early 1970s, Governor Nelson Rockefeller's administration saw the potential for Stewart Airport to support the metropolitan area.

Its long runway made it particularly attractive for intercontinental service via supersonic transport (SST), then under development in the U.S. and elsewhere.

It tripled the airport's territory, extending its land well beyond its previous western boundary at Drury Lane, a two-lane rural road.

The state government used its eminent domain powers to take 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) for terminals, runways and a buffer zone expanding the airport from Newburgh into neighboring towns of Montgomery and a small portion of Hamptonburgh.

The land was bounded by I-84 to the north, NY 207 along the south and roughly by Rock Tavern and Maybrook in the west.

Maybrook is accessible by Interstate 84, the New York State Thruway and Stewart International Airport.

Campbell Hall station, on the Metro-North Railroad's Port Jervis Line, is 5.4 miles to the southwest.