Kingston, New York
Ulster County
36-39727
Kingston is a city in Ulster County in the valley of the Hudson River in upstate New York, United States. In the 2000 census, the city had 23,456 inhabitants.
Prior to the independence of the United States Kingston was the capital of the British colony of New York.
Geography
Kingston is located on the western shore of the Hudson River, north of the mouth of the Rondout Creeks, who has given one of the two villages, which then formed Kingston, the name. The Esopus Creek flows north past Kingston and forms in the northwest, the boundary of the City of Kingston to the Town of Kingston.
Interstate 87 cuts through the city to the west for a few hundred meters. In addition, several New York State Routes through Kingston. The northern terminus of New York State Route 213 is located at the intersection of Fair Street (New York State Route 32) and Henry State. The also extending in a north-south direction NY 32 intersects further north with the running here New York State Route 28, this is classified as arterial road west as Interstate 587, east NY 28 leads as Broadway at its eastern end to the U.S. Highway 9W ( Frank Köenig Boulevard), which runs through the eastern part of the city from south to north, while parallel to the extending on the east bank of the Hudson River U.S. Highway 9 runs.
Within the urban area there are several parks, the largest of the Hasbrook Park is to the east. South-east of this park is the smaller Kingston Point Park, just south of the city center extends between NY 32 and NY 213 The Forsyth Park is located west of Washington Avenue in the west of the city.
National Register of Historic Places
In the City of Kingston is the Stockade District with the Kirkland Hotel. Both are registered in the National Register of Historic Places since 2002. Within Kinston, there are more being added to the National Register properties, such as the Ulster Performing Arts Center on Broadway, the Sharp Burial Ground, at the New York State Route 32, the houses of James and Mary Forsyth, John Smith, George J. Smith Benjamin Ten Broeck Ten Broeck and Jacob or the house 184 Albany Avenue as well as the Kingston- Port Ewen suspension Bridge.
Demography
Data obtained from the census in 2000 23.456 inhabitants of Kingston lived in 9,871 households; among them were 5,498 families. The population density was 1,232 per km ². In place 10,637 housing units were recorded. Among the population was 80.38 % White, 12.77 % African American, 0.30 % Native American, 1.53 % Asian, and 1.90% from other ethnic groups; 3.12 % reported belonging to several ethnic groups.
Among the 9,871 households 27.0% had children under the age of 18; 35.2 % were married couples living together. 36.8 % of households were single-person households. The average household size was 2.28 and the average family size is 3.02.
The population was spread out with 23.9 % under the age of 18, 8.1 % from 18 to 24, 28.9 % 25-44 years, 21.9% from 45 to 64 years and 17.1 % of 65 years or older. The median age was 38 years.
The median household income was $ 31,594, the median family income $ 41,806. The per capita income in Kingston was $ 18,662. Under the poverty line lived 15.8 % of the population.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Bogdanovich ( born 1939 ), film director
- Robert Craft ( b. 1923 ), conductor and musicologist
- Joseph W. Estabrook (1944-2012), auxiliary bishop in the Military Ordinariate
- Arthur Flemming (1905-1996), U.S. Health and Education Ministers
- Ron Suskind (* 1959), journalist and reporter for the Wall Street Journal, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize
- Todd Wells ( born 1975 ), cyclocross and mountain bike cyclist