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Leeds is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Catskill, Greene County, New York, located on the north side of Catskill Creek just northwest of the village of Catskill.

Leeds had 429 residents at the 2020 census, up from 377 in 2010 and 369 in 2000, when the CDP had 174 households.

The community covers only about 0.54 square miles, sits just north of New York State Route 23 and west of the Interstate 87 Thruway, and uses ZIP code 12451.

In the local Native American language the area was known as Pasqoecq, and the hamlet was later called Madison and then Mill Village before becoming Leeds.

Leeds received its present name in 1827, when its post office was established; the name honors Leeds, England, and was suggested by Richard Hardwick, who had emigrated from that city.

Trader Jan Bronk was the area's pioneer settler, with a log cabin on the Catskill before 1675, and in 1711 he granted rights to build mills at the Great Falls of Catskill Creek, around which the mill village grew.

Water power from Catskill Creek drove grist, saw, and fulling mills at Leeds through the nineteenth century, making the hamlet one of Greene County's early industrial centers and earning it the name Mill Village.

The artist Winslow Homer captured the hamlet in his 1876 painting Twilight at Leeds, New York.