Edgecombe Avenue
Edgecombe Avenue is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 54 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.7 miles off.
This honorary street name memorializes Paul Robeson.
The story
apartment building in Manhattan, New York
Dates from 1914.
Wikidata Q4640573, matched on coordinates and name (810 m apart).
How to reach it
- 1.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.1 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.0 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.0 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.0 mi
- Edgecombe Avenue: 0.1 mi
- Amsterdam Avenue: 0.2 mi
- Audubon Playground: 0.1 mi
- Mitchel Square: 0.2 mi
- McKenna Square: 0.3 mi
- Plaza de las Americas: 0.4 mi
- J. Hood Wright Park: 0.5 mi
- The Garden: 0.3 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.4 mi
- Mosaic Garden: 0.5 mi
- Taqwa Community Farm: 0.7 mi
- Roberto Clemente Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 0.5 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 1.1 mi
- Sidewalk Flowers: 1.1 mi
- Roberto Clemente: 1.2 mi
- Our Gates: 1.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.6 mi
- Palisades: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.6 mi
- Palisades: 6.7 mi
- The Palisades: 7.6 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.7 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 1.3 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 1.4 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.7 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 0.8 mi
- Long Hill: 1.7 mi
- Inwood Hill: 2.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.4 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.6 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.2 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.8 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.8 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.5 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 2.5 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 2.8 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.5 mi
- Street Seats: 6.3 mi
- The Backyard: 7.3 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 7.4 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.1 mi
- The Loch: 3.4 mi
- The Falls: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.9 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 22.7 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 5.1 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.9 miles of Edgecombe Avenue. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | WNW 303° | 268 m | 16.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | WNW 303° | 260 m | 17.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 302° | 230 m | 16.2 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 19.3 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 19° | 211 m | 19.7 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 2° | 208 m | 14.4 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 302° | 185 m | 18.0 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 302° | 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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/278667969
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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