$689,000
Apt 2, 140 Prospect Lantern Street, Hudson
2 bd · 2 ba · 1,350 sq ft · built 1870
Columbia County · Town guide
Hudson
A small river city with one long street that runs from a bluff above the water to the edge of the farm country, lined almost the whole way with 18th- and 19th-century buildings. Few places in the country have kept that much of themselves.
Hudson at a glance
$735,000median sale price, Q3 2025
38median days on market
About 2 hrsAmtrak to Penn Station
17homes sold, July–September 2025
The city
Hudson was founded in 1783 by whaling and merchant families from Nantucket and Providence, who chose a deep-water landing on the east bank and laid out a grid of streets on the hill above it. For a while it was one of the busiest ports in the state. Then whaling ended, the river trade shifted, and Hudson went through a long, rough century: factories, a cement plant, a notorious red-light district, decline. What it didn't do was tear much down.
So when antiques dealers began opening shops on Warren Street in the 1980s, they found an almost complete streetscape: Federal and Greek Revival houses, Italianate row houses with tall windows and bracketed cornices, brick commercial buildings with apartments upstairs. Galleries, design shops, restaurants and bars followed. Today Warren Street, a little over a mile long, is one of the best walking streets in the Hudson Valley, busy on weekends and full of people who used to live in Brooklyn.
Hudson is a city of about 6,000 people, and it's honest to say it's a place of contrasts. Alongside the shops and second homes are long-time residents and real economic hardship, and rising prices have been hard on many of them. Local politics are lively. The city has a strong civic life and a lot of opinions, and it's worth getting to know before you buy.
Weekends and second homes
Hudson has long been a weekend town, and that shapes the market. Roughly a third of the houses that sell here go to buyers who will use them part of the year, many from Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Berkshires. That keeps prices firm at the top and means summer and fall weekends are busy on the sidewalks and in the restaurants. It also means the village is quieter on a Tuesday in February than visitors expect, and that full-time residents have opinions about short-term rentals, which the city regulates. If you're buying to rent the house out part of the year, check the current rules with the town before you make an offer, not after.
Housing stock and prices
- Row houses on and off Warren Street
- Federal, Greek Revival and Italianate townhouses, often 18 to 22 feet wide, with deep narrow lots and small gardens behind. Many need work; some have been beautifully restored. $550,000 to $1.4 million.
- Condos above shops
- Floor-through apartments in converted commercial buildings, usually one or two bedrooms, with high ceilings and tall windows. $450,000 to $850,000, with modest HOA fees.
- Side-street houses
- Smaller frame houses on the streets north and south of Warren, often the most affordable in the city. $325,000 to $600,000.
- Multifamily and mixed use
- Buildings with a shop on the ground floor and apartments above. These trade regularly; Rosa Delgado can talk you through the numbers.
- Country houses nearby
- Farmhouses and estates in the surrounding towns of Claverack, Ghent and Germantown, from about $600,000 to several million.
Getting around
The Amtrak station is at the foot of Warren Street, by the river, an easy walk from most of the city. Trains reach Penn Station in about two hours and run north to Albany and beyond. That makes Hudson workable for people who go to Manhattan once or twice a week, though not for a daily commute. Driving to the city takes about two and a half hours via the Taconic Parkway.
The city itself is very walkable, and plenty of residents live in Hudson with one car or none. The Rip Van Winkle Bridge, a few miles south, crosses to Catskill and the west bank.
Outdoors and landmarks
At the river end of Warren Street, Promenade Hill is a small park on a bluff with one of the great views in the valley: the river, the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse sitting in the channel, and the Catskills beyond. Just south of the city, Olana, the hilltop house and landscape that painter Frederic Church designed in the 1870s, is a state historic site with carriage roads and views painted a thousand times. Across the river in Catskill, the home and studio of Thomas Cole, the founder of the Hudson River School of painting, is open to visitors, and a walking trail across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge links the two.
North Bay, a marshland along the river, has a trail for birdwatching, and the farm roads of Columbia County are good for long bike rides. In winter, there's skating when the ponds freeze.
Through the year
Summer and fall weekends are busy, with visitors on Warren Street and full restaurants. Spring is garden-tour season, when the private gardens behind the row houses open for a weekend. Winter is quieter but not shut down; the shops and restaurants mostly stay open, and Warren Street at dusk in December, lit up and half empty, is a good time to decide whether you'd like to live here.
Practical notes for buyers
- Schools: the city is served by a K–12 city school district. Contact the district directly.
- Water and sewer: municipal in the city.
- Historic district: much of the city is in a historic district with exterior review. Tall windows, cornices and storefronts are protected for good reason.
- Old-house items: row houses share party walls, so ask about the neighbors' roofs and chimneys as well as your own. Many have old brick foundations, original plaster and older wiring.
- Taxes: substantial; ask for the actual bill.
- Parking: most row houses have none. Check winter street-parking rules.
Thinking about Hudson?
Priya Raman covers Hudson and the Columbia County towns around it from our Kingston office, about 40 minutes up the river. Call (845) 555-0190.