Bielinski is the author of Abraham Yates, Jr. and the New Political Order in Revolutionary New York (1975), Government by the People: The Story of the Dongan Charter and the Birth of Participatory Democracy in the City of Albany (1986), of numerous articles on the people of colonial Albany, and of monographic and edited works on aspects of New York State history. He is the principal writer for "The People of Colonial Albany Live Here" website.

Since 1981, he has been working with a diverse group of students, descendants, community people, and professional historians in a cooperative research program dedicated to understanding early American community life by studying the contributions of each of the almost 16,000 men, women, and children who lived in the city of Albany before 1800. More than 250 historians have completed the project's program of basic training in social history research. In addition to publications, the Colonial Albany Social History Project presents the story of early Albany people and their world to diverse audiences through public programs incorporating the popular appeal of creative exhibitions, video imagery, and music.

Currently, Steve Bielinski has focused Colonial Albany Project resources on developing "The People of Colonial Albany Live Here" website. His personal agenda is to articulate every aspect (persons, places, things, activities, and events) of project learning online. In recent years, he has added , up to 400 new web items a year. The project website now contains more than 3,000 interconnected and illustrated items.

See also a major research and programming initiative entitled "The Other Revolutionaries."