Edgecombe Avenue
Edgecombe Avenue is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 32 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is West 155th Street, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 2.0 miles off.
This honorary street name memorializes Thurgood Marshall.
The story
residential apartment building
Dates from 1910s.
Wikidata Q113048707, matched on coordinates and name (101 m apart).
How to reach it
- 2.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- West 155th Street: 0.0 mi
- West 155th Street: 0.0 mi
- West 155th Street: 0.0 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- Saint Nicholas Avenue: 0.1 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.1 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.2 mi
- Bradhurst Community Garden of Love: 0.2 mi
- Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.4 mi
- Convent Garden: 0.2 mi
- Carmansville Playground: 0.2 mi
- Holcombe Rucker Park: 0.2 mi
- Donnellan Square: 0.3 mi
- Jackie Robinson Park: 0.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.2 mi
- Palisades: 3.0 mi
- Palisades: 4.2 mi
- Palisades: 6.0 mi
- Palisades: 8.1 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.5 mi
- Our Gates: 0.7 mi
- Portrait of t.: 0.7 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.2 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 1.3 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 0.6 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 0.6 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 0.9 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.9 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 1.5 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.6 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.8 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.0 mi
- Long Hill: 2.4 mi
- Great Hill: 2.5 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.9 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.7 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.3 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.5 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.9 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.4 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.0 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.7 mi
- Street Seats: 5.6 mi
- The Backyard: 6.9 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.2 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.9 mi
- The Loch: 2.7 mi
- The Falls: 6.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.3 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.1 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Edgecombe Avenue. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 306° | 268 m | 16.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 306° | 260 m | 17.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 305° | 230 m | 16.4 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 20.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 3° | 208 m | 15.1 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 305° | 185 m | 18.2 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 304° | 180 m | 17.9 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 266° | 179 m | 15.9 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, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/1452403762
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 4 mi
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