Phoenicia is a hamlet (and census-designated place) of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States.

A popular getaway for New Yorkers, the hamlet has frequented many tourism guides as among the best vacation towns in the greater New York City area.

[2][3][4] The geographic area that would eventually be named Phoenicia was fertile hunting and fishing land for the Mohawk, Mohican, and Lenape peoples for hundreds of years before European settlers arrived.

These access restrictions particularly began to push poorer subsistence farmers into the Catskill mountains.

An 1879 article from the New York Times, "In The Ulster Catskills: Attractions of Shandaken Valley", notes "many thousands of people will come [to the Catskills] annually to escape the heat of the pent-up cities, and spend some of their hard-earned money in gaining renewed strength and vigor of body and mind.

"[6] The Ulster and Delaware Railroad arrived at this community first, making it the first to develop the tourist industry which is still a major part of the local economy.

It continued passenger service through the development, albeit only once-daily except Sundays in its final years.

[7][8] In 1960, the Empire State Railway Museum opened in the historic Ulster & Delaware Phoenicia Railroad Station.

[12] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.5 square miles (1.3 km2), all land.