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Hudson is a city in Columbia County and serves as the county seat; it is Columbia County's only city.

Hudson stands on the east bank of the Hudson River, about 120 miles north of New York City and about 45 miles south of Albany, and it is named for the river and for explorer Henry Hudson.

The Dutch purchased the land around Hudson from the Mahican people in 1662, more than a century before the city was founded.

Hudson was settled in 1783 by Quaker whalers and merchants from Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Providence, Rhode Island, led by Thomas and Seth Jenkins, who called themselves the Proprietors and laid out a formal city grid at the head of navigation on the river.

Hudson was chartered as a city in 1785, and by 1786 it already had wharves, warehouses and a spermaceti works and about 1,500 residents.

By 1790 Hudson was the 24th-largest city in the United States, and in 1820, with 5,310 residents, it was the fourth-largest city in New York State.

Hudson came within a single legislative vote of being chosen as New York's state capital, losing out to Albany.

After its whaling era faded, Hudson remade itself as a 19th-century factory town, and its population peaked at 12,337 in 1930; the city adopted a new charter in 1895.

The 2020 census counted 5,894 residents in Hudson, down from 6,713 in 2010, and Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 show about 2,865 households averaging just 1.91 persons per household, with 14.5% of residents foreign-born.

In 2020 Hudson launched HudsonUP, a universal basic income pilot program.