Hillside, NY

Hillside is an Ulster County census-designated place with 860 residents in the 2020 census, just south of Kingston and within the Town of Ulster. It is a small residential pocket on Kingston’s edge rather than a standalone downtown, so larger shopping, jobs, and civic services sit in the Kingston orbit. The local map is a mix of neighborhood roads and the larger routes that feed north into the city and east toward the Hudson Valley. The Kingston City School District serves Hillside, with Kingston High School as the district’s comprehensive high school.

That school connection is the clearest shared institution, while the Town of Ulster supplies the wider suburban and rural setting around the CDP. For everyday errands, residents move between Kingston’s commercial area and Ulster roads rather than relying on a separate village center. Hillside is the kind of place whose address says one thing on a map and whose daily routes point to the nearby city. That keeps the local map pointed north.