Hastings is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States.

It is named after Hastings Curtiss, a prominent citizen and member of the State Assembly in 1824.

Hastings was the first town settled in Oswego County when Oliver Stevens built a rude house near the abandoned Fort Brewerton in 1789.

[3] Stevens used the location to trade with Indians and to provide a tavern-like establishment for the boatmen who frequented the nearby river and lake.

The Carley's Mills Schoolhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The southern town line is the Oneida River and the border of Onondaga County.