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Carthage is a village in the town of Wilna in Jefferson County, New York, on the east side of the Black River about 18 miles east of Watertown and two miles south of the Fort Drum military reservation.

The settlement was originally called Long Falls and was first settled around 1798 by Henry Boutin, who bought 1,000 acres from an agent of a French land company.

The village is named after the ancient city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia, and it was chartered in 1869.

Carthage is one of only twelve villages in New York still incorporated under a charter; all the others have incorporated or re-incorporated under the state's general Village Law.

Fire has repeatedly reshaped Carthage: a blaze in 1861 destroyed about twenty buildings, an 1884 fire that spread across the river from West Carthage ruined more than 150 buildings, and a 2002 fire destroyed eight downtown buildings and displaced nearly 150 residents.

Carthage had a population of 3,236 at the 2020 census, in 1,359 households, and its median age of 32.5 years is young for the region, reflecting the many military families connected to nearby Fort Drum.

The village stands at the junction of New York State Routes 3 and 126.

Although its studios later moved to Watertown, television station WWNY-TV is still officially licensed to Carthage, and nearby Champion Hill hosted the original facilities of both WWNY and public station WPBS.

Filmmaker John Carpenter, director of Halloween, was born in Carthage while his mother was visiting her sister there.

The State Street Historic District, the First Baptist Church, the Cook Memorial Building, and the village's United States Post Office are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.