Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument is a historic site in New York, at a recorded elevation of 20 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Joan of Arc Memorial, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 4.3 miles off.
The story
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Monument is located in Riverside Park, at the intersection of 89th Street and Riverside Drive, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. It commemorates Union Army soldiers and sailors who served in the American Civil War. It is an enlarged version of the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, and was designed by the firm of Stoughton & Stoughton with Paul E. M. DuBoy. The monument was completed May 26, 1902.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1900-09-21.
Wikidata Q3489276, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1900
- Height
- 31.0 m
- Elevation
- 20 m
How to reach it
- 4.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 6.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 23.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Joan of Arc Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Hammer Boy: 0.6 mi
- Straus Monument: 0.9 mi
- Alexander von Humboldt: 0.9 mi
- Romeo and Juliet: 1.0 mi
- Joan of Arc Park: 0.2 mi
- St. Gregory's Playground: 0.4 mi
- Playground Eighty Nine LXXXIX: 0.4 mi
- West 87th Street Garden: 0.5 mi
- Sol Bloom Playground: 0.5 mi
- Jacobo Villano Pardo: 0.2 mi
- Carrere Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Firemen's Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Dr. Gao Yaojie Memorial Bench: 0.7 mi
- Nobel Monument: 0.7 mi
- West Side Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- The Urban Assembly School for Green Careers Garden: 0.4 mi
- Lotus Garden: 0.4 mi
- La Perla Garden: 0.9 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 1.0 mi
- Summit Rock: 0.8 mi
- Vista Rock: 1.0 mi
- Great Hill: 1.1 mi
- Mount Morris: 2.0 mi
- Kings Bluff: 2.9 mi
- Glen Span Arch: 1.0 mi
- Bow Bridge: 1.2 mi
- Huddlestone Arch: 1.2 mi
- Bethesda Fountain: 1.3 mi
- Free Public Stargazing: 1.4 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 1.8 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 3.5 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.1 mi
- Lehrer Tract: 5.2 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.8 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 3.8 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.0 mi
- Hazard Beach: 4.4 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 5.0 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 2.1 mi
- Street Seats: 3.3 mi
- The Backyard: 5.2 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.6 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 1.3 mi
- Palisades: 2.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 7.1 mi
- The Loch: 1.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 9.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 9.0 mi
- The Falls: 9.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.3 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.0 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 22.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 22.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 3.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 11.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.0 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.7 mi
- Barber: 23.3 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 317° | 268 m | 16.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 316° | 260 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 316° | 230 m | 16.6 mi |
| Campgaw Mountain | NNW 328° | 224 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 9° | 208 m | 18.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 315° | 185 m | 18.4 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 315° | 180 m | 18.0 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 276° | 179 m | 13.9 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, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/270975149
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 0 mi
- Manhattan · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Theater District · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 2 mi
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