New York is an unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States, about 11 miles east of Athens.

[1] New York was first settled around 1856 by James C. Walker, Davis Reynolds, Jesse M. Forester, and A. M. Otts at a location south of the present site.

The community was reportedly named either by T. B. Herndon as a joke or by Reynolds because of his hopes for the town's future.

[2] By 1884 New York had two steam gristmills and cotton gins, two churches, a district school, and a population of 60, which rose to 100 by 1892.

[2] In 1986,[3] nearby Dunsavage Farms (a restaurant, antique shop, and bed and breakfast) began to market "New York, Texas, Cheesecake", which became nationally known by 1992.