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. The nearest named place is Audubon Playground, a park 0.1 miles away. 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 (821 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
- 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
- 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
- Target Bronx 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
- 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
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.1 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
- 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
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.6 mi
- Palisades: 3.5 mi
- The Palisades: 7.6 mi
- Thor: 14.3 mi
- Sir Maginot Drop: 14.3 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
- Amsterdam Avenue: 0.2 mi
- Saint Nicholas Avenue: 0.2 mi
- Broadway: 0.2 mi
- West 166th Street: 0.2 mi
- West 169th Street: 0.3 mi
- The Loch: 3.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 12.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.6 mi
- Great Falls: 13.9 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 20.2 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 |
| Campgaw Mountain | NW 317° | 224 m | 20.2 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 |
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/1452447396
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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