Broadway
Broadway is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 52 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.5 miles off.
This honorary street name memorializes Juan Rodriguez.
The story
Road in New York City and Westchester County, New York, United States.
Wikidata Q11260, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Mitchel Square: 0.0 mi
- McKenna Square: 0.1 mi
- Audubon Playground: 0.2 mi
- Roger Morris Park: 0.4 mi
- Plaza de las Americas: 0.5 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.3 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.7 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.7 mi
- Taqwa Community Farm: 0.8 mi
- Mosaic Garden: 0.8 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 0.5 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.8 mi
- Our Gates: 1.1 mi
- Portrait of t.: 1.1 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.3 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.9 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: 2.0 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.3 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.9 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.4 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.7 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.4 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.1 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 2.7 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.9 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.2 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 0.9 mi
- Long Hill: 1.8 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.5 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.5 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.4 mi
- The Palisades: 7.7 mi
- Thor: 14.0 mi
- Sir Maginot Drop: 14.1 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.4 mi
- Street Seats: 6.2 mi
- The Backyard: 7.0 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.5 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.2 mi
- West 166th Street: 0.1 mi
- West 165th Street: 0.1 mi
- West 168th Street: 0.1 mi
- Fort Washington Avenue: 0.1 mi
- West 169th Street: 0.2 mi
- The Loch: 3.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.4 mi
- Great Falls: 13.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.0 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.2 miles of Broadway. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 304° | 268 m | 16.2 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 304° | 260 m | 17.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 303° | 230 m | 16.1 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 318° | 224 m | 20.1 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 19.4 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 20° | 211 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 3° | 208 m | 14.5 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 303° | 185 m | 17.8 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/1452443168
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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