Riverside Drive
Riverside Drive is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 1.5 miles off.
This honorary street name memorializes Robert Lowery.
The story
thoroughfare in Manhattan, United States
Dates from 1910.
Wikidata Q2589766, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Riverside Drive: 0.0 mi
- Riverside Drive West: 0.1 mi
- West 161st Street: 0.3 mi
- West 161st Street: 0.3 mi
- West 157th Street: 0.3 mi
- Ilka Tanya Payán Park: 0.2 mi
- Riverside Park: 0.3 mi
- Ten Mile River Playground: 0.4 mi
- Carmansville Playground: 0.4 mi
- Convent Garden: 0.5 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 0.3 mi
- Our Gates: 0.5 mi
- Portrait of t.: 0.5 mi
- 3000 A.D. Diffusion Piece: 1.0 mi
- Welcome to Harlem: 1.3 mi
- Maggie's Garden: 0.4 mi
- Hope the Friendly Garden on Hill: 0.5 mi
- Mo' Pals: 0.5 mi
- Harris Garden: 0.5 mi
- Morris-Jumel Ecological Education Garden: 0.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.5 mi
- Palisades: 2.8 mi
- Palisades: 4.0 mi
- Palisades: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.0 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 0.7 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 0.8 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.3 mi
- Joker Stairs: 1.3 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 1.8 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.4 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.1 mi
- Long Hill: 2.3 mi
- Janes Hill: 2.5 mi
- Great Hill: 2.6 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.4 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 2.6 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.2 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.3 mi
- Undercliff Beach: 3.6 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 1.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.9 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.0 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.2 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.0 mi
- Street Seats: 5.8 mi
- The Backyard: 6.5 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.0 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 8.7 mi
- The Loch: 2.8 mi
- The Falls: 6.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 12.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.5 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 24.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.0 miles of Riverside Drive. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 306° | 268 m | 16.1 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 306° | 260 m | 17.2 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 305° | 230 m | 15.9 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 5° | 214 m | 19.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 4° | 208 m | 14.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 305° | 185 m | 17.7 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 305° | 180 m | 17.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 264° | 179 m | 15.5 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 | 07:18 | 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/60813032
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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