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Kingston Stockade District

The Kingston Stockade District is an eight-block area in the western section of Kingston, New York, United States, commonly referred to as Uptown Kingston.

Kingston Stockade District
Kingston Stockade District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

The Kingston Stockade District is an eight-block area in the western section of Kingston, New York, United States, commonly referred to as Uptown Kingston. It is the original site of the mid-17th century Dutch settlement of Wiltwyck, which was later renamed Kingston when it passed to English control.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kingston Stockade District

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Old Dutch Church

    The Old Dutch Church, officially known as the First Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Kingston, is located on Wall Street in Kingston, New York, United States. Formally organized in 1659, it is one of the oldest continuously existing congregations in the country.

    100 m · church in Kingston, New York · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Second Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston

    Second Reformed Dutch Church of Kingston is a historic Dutch Reformed church located at Kingston, Ulster County, New York. It was built in 1850, and is a meeting house form church building constructed of native limestone blocks in the Gothic Revival style.

    300 m · church building in Hingston, New York · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Mount Zion Cemetery

    Mount Zion Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery owned by the A.M.E. Zion Church of Kingston. The cemetery is on a 2.4-acre lot located at 190 South Wall Street in the city of Kingston.

    1.7 km · cemetery in Kingston, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sharp Burial Ground

    The Sharp Burial Ground, also known as the Albany Avenue Cemetery, is located on Albany Avenue in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a small burying ground used during the middle decades of the 19th century, before larger rural cemeteries had become common but after churchyards had become too full for further burials.

    1.5 km · cemetery · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    James and Mary Forsyth House

    The James and Mary Forsyth House is located on Albany Avenue near uptown Kingston, New York, United States. It is a brick Italian villa-style house designed by Richard Upjohn in the mid-19th century.

    400 m · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kirkland Hotel

    The Kirkland Hotel is located at the corner of Main Street and Clinton Avenue in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a Tudor-style building dating to the end of the 19th century.

    300 m · hotel building in Kingston, New York · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hurley Historic District

    The Hurley Historic District encompasses the center of the hamlet of Hurley, the main settlement area of the town of Hurley, New York. Stretched along US 209, the hamlet includes one of the finest concentrations of colonial Dutch architecture in the United States.

    3.8 km · National Historic Landmark in the hamlet of Hurley · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Hasbrouck Park

    Hasbrouck Park is a 45 acres park in Kingston, New York or in Kingston, New York Opened in 1920, it was Kingston's first "official" downtown park. Much of the park's area was mined by the Newark Lime and Cement Company in the 1800s and early 1900s.

    3.5 km · park in New York, United States of America · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kingston Theatre

    Kingston Theatre, was a theatre in Kingston, Jamaica, between 1775 and 1838. It was a major cultural centre of the island during its duration and had a good reputation also outside of the island, giving Jamaica a name of cultural sophistication, and it remained the main theatre of Jamaica during its history.

    200 m · movie theater in Kingston, New York, United States · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Catskill Mountain Railroad

    The Catskill Mountain Railroad is a heritage tourist railroad based in Kingston, New York, that began operations in 1982. The railroad leases a 4.7-mile portion of the former New York Central Railroad Catskill Mountain branch from Kingston to Stony Hollow, New York.

    400 m · heritage tourist railroad based New York State, USA · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kingston Stockade District

Airports
Albany (ALB), 92 km · Bradley (BDL), 110 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 129 km
  • Albany → Kingston Stockade District
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · $7–10
  • New York → Kingston Stockade District
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $13–17
  • Hartford → Kingston Stockade District
    112 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kingston Stockade District

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kingston Stockade District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOne exception is NY Waterway, an operator of commuter ferries, that offers full day and weekend sightseeing cruises from New York City to several locations including Tarrytown and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  • Get aroundHistorically it was wide enough that only ferries crossed it, but then a few rail bridges crossed the river in the late 19th century, followed by vehicle bridges in the 20th.
  • Get aroundNew York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority operates two ferry routes across the river in its service area, primarily for the benefit of commuters using Metro-North's Hudson Line; both operate only during rush hour.
  • Get aroundNewburgh–Beacon Ferry from Front Street in Newburgh, Orange County, to the Metro-North station at Beacon, Dutchess County.

From Wikivoyage: Mid-Hudson and Catskills, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    161 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    483 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,761 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,769 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,890 km

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