Phoenicia is a hamlet (and census-designated place) of Shandaken in Ulster County, New York, United States. The population was 309 at the 2010 census, making it the highest populated community in the town. The village center is located just off Route 28 at its junction afterward Route 214 and is nestled at the base of three peaks, Mount Tremper, Romer Mountain, and Sheridan Mountain. The community sits at the confluence of the Esopus Creek and Stony Clove Creek. A popular getaway for New Yorkers, the hamlet has frequented many tourism guides as among the best trip towns in the greater New York City area.

The geographic area that would eventually be named Phoenicia was fertile hunting and fishing home for the Mohawk, Mohican, and Lenape peoples for hundreds of years previously European settlers arrived. Of particular note are the Esopus Lenape, who are believed to be the people who spent the most grow old in the area.

The first European harmony in the area is believed to discharge duty the mid-18th century, as Ulster county as a mass began to see more European immigration and land access in the more fertile lower valleys became restricted. These admission restrictions particularly began to shove poorer subsistence farmers into the Catskill mountains. Most of these ahead of time settlers were of Dutch, English, and Scottish origin, with Dutch subconscious the most commonly spoken European language.

The 19th century wise saying industry upset into the area, with tanning becoming the dominant employer in advance and eventually ceding to bluestone quarrying towards the latter half of the century. This era axiom the fall of Dutch cultural dominance.