New Paltz, NY

New Paltz is a historic village in Ulster County, New York, located approximately eighty miles north of New York City and seventy miles south of Albany. Home to the State University of New York at New Paltz, which was founded in 1828, the village has a population of approximately 8,300. The community is famous for the Huguenot Street Historic District, which preserves seventeenth-century stone houses built by early French settlers. Positioned near the Hudson River, the village serves as a major cultural and educational hub in the mid-Hudson Valley.