Edgecombe Avenue
Edgecombe Avenue is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 44 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is West 160th Street, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.9 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 (89 m apart).
How to reach it
- 1.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Roger Morris Park: 0.1 mi
- McKenna Square: 0.3 mi
- Ilka Tanya Payán Park: 0.3 mi
- Holcombe Rucker Park: 0.3 mi
- Convent Garden: 0.4 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.2 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.3 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.4 mi
- Bradhurst Community Garden of Love: 0.4 mi
- Frederick Douglass Boulevard Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.6 mi
- Our Gates: 0.8 mi
- Portrait of t.: 0.9 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.0 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 1.6 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 0.8 mi
- Joker Stairs: 0.8 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 0.9 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.2 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 1.7 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.0 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.5 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.3 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.8 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.5 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.1 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.7 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.0 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.1 mi
- Long Hill: 2.2 mi
- Great Hill: 2.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.1 mi
- Palisades: 3.2 mi
- The Palisades: 8.1 mi
- Thor: 14.2 mi
- Sir Maginot Drop: 14.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.0 mi
- Street Seats: 5.8 mi
- The Backyard: 7.0 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.0 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.6 mi
- West 160th Street: 0.0 mi
- West 162nd Street: 0.1 mi
- West 159th Street: 0.1 mi
- West 155th Street: 0.2 mi
- West 157th Street: 0.2 mi
- The Loch: 2.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.0 mi
- Great Falls: 13.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.0 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.8 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.4 miles of Edgecombe Avenue. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 16.5 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 17.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 304° | 230 m | 16.4 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 3° | 214 m | 19.9 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | NNE 19° | 211 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 2° | 208 m | 14.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 304° | 185 m | 18.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 304° | 180 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, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/196117019
Day trips start here
- Fort Lee · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Bronx · 3 mi
- Englewood · 4 mi
- Manhattan · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 4 mi
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