Marquis de Lafayette
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Marquis de Lafayette is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Old Union Square, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 8.3 miles off.
The story
Marquis de Lafayette is an outdoor bronze sculpture of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette by artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, located at Union Square Park in Manhattan, New York.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1876.
Wikidata Q18151402, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1876-09-06
- Material
- bronze
- Inscription
- Lafayette // To the City of New York. France. In remembrance of sympathy in time of trial. 1870–1871. // As soon as I heard of American independence, my heart was enlisted. 1776.
How to reach it
- 8.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 8.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 26.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Old Union Square: 0.0 mi
- Independence Flagstaff: 0.0 mi
- Union Square Drinking Fountain: 0.0 mi
- Metronome: 0.1 mi
- Roscoe Conkling: 0.4 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.0 mi
- George Washington: 0.0 mi
- Mohandas Gandhi: 0.1 mi
- Edwin Booth: 0.3 mi
- Peter Stuyvesant: 0.3 mi
- Gandhi Garden: 0.1 mi
- The New School (Lang College) Park: 0.4 mi
- East Side Outside Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- 11th Street Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Golden Swan Garden: 0.6 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site: 0.2 mi
- Gramercy Park: 0.3 mi
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens Playground: 0.4 mi
- Abe Lebewohl Park: 0.4 mi
- Peter's Field: 0.4 mi
- Yeshiva University Museum: 0.3 mi
- Rubin Museum of Art: 0.5 mi
- The Ukrainian Museum: 0.6 mi
- National Museum of Mathematics: 0.6 mi
- Merchant's House Museum: 0.6 mi
- La de forest house: 0.3 mi
- Mark Twain House: 0.4 mi
- The Friends Experience: 0.4 mi
- Flatiron Building: 0.4 mi
- Flatiron District: 0.4 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 1.1 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 2.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 2.2 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 2.2 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 2.7 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.6 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
- Bird Island: 2.7 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.5 mi
- Kings Bluff: 2.6 mi
- Vista Rock: 3.2 mi
- Summit Rock: 3.4 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.5 mi
- Grassy Hill: 3.8 mi
- Street Seats: 2.4 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 2.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 2.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 2.9 mi
- Freedom Field: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 2.8 mi
- Palisades: 2.9 mi
- Palisades: 5.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Palisades: 11.1 mi
- The Loch: 4.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Falls: 13.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 2.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 18.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 18.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.9 mi
- Barber: 20.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of Marquis de Lafayette. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 326° | 268 m | 19.5 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 308° | 263 m | 24.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 325° | 260 m | 20.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 326° | 230 m | 19.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 9° | 208 m | 21.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 324° | 185 m | 20.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 324° | 180 m | 20.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 292° | 179 m | 14.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| 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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/1251605892
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Gramercy Flatiron · 0 mi
- Downstate New York · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Chelsea · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 1 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Greenwich Village · 1 mi
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