Amsterdam Avenue
Amsterdam Avenue is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.7 miles off.
This honorary street name memorializes Normandía Maldonado.
The story
avenue in Manhattan, New York City, USA
Wikidata Q130388, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Amsterdam Avenue: 0.0 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- West 165th Street: 0.1 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- McKenna Square: 0.1 mi
- Mitchel Square: 0.2 mi
- Audubon Playground: 0.2 mi
- Roger Morris Park: 0.3 mi
- Plaza de las Americas: 0.5 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.3 mi
- The Garden: 0.3 mi
- Taqwa Community Farm: 0.6 mi
- Mosaic Garden: 0.6 mi
- Target Bronx Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.4 mi
- Palisades: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.6 mi
- Palisades: 6.5 mi
- The Palisades: 7.7 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 0.6 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.9 mi
- Our Gates: 1.1 mi
- Portrait of t.: 1.2 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.3 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.8 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 1.2 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 1.2 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.6 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.0 mi
- Long Hill: 1.8 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.4 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.5 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.4 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.7 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.7 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.5 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.1 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 2.7 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.9 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.4 mi
- Street Seats: 6.2 mi
- The Backyard: 7.1 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.6 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
- The Loch: 3.3 mi
- The Falls: 6.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.4 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.0 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 22.8 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 5.0 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Amsterdam Avenue. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 304° | 268 m | 16.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 304° | 260 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 303° | 230 m | 16.2 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 19.5 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 19° | 211 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 2° | 208 m | 14.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 303° | 185 m | 18.0 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 303° | 180 m | 17.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1146402191
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Englewood · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 4 mi
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