Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum in New York, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is International Center of Photography, a museum 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 9.4 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum is a museum and National Historic Site located at 97 and 103 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The museum's two historical tenement buildings were home to an estimated 15,000 people, from over 20 nations, between 1863 and 1935 (97 Orchard Street) and 1888 and 2015 (103 Orchard Street). The museum, which includes a visitors' center, promotes tolerance and historical perspective on the immigrant experience.
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Dates from 1988.
Wikidata Q901533, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 12 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 9.4 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 9.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 27.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- International Center of Photography: 0.1 mi
- New Museum: 0.3 mi
- Museum at Eldridge Street: 0.3 mi
- Italian American Museum: 0.4 mi
- Museum of Chinese in America: 0.5 mi
- Seward Park Extension Park: 0.1 mi
- Seward Park High School - Community Playground: 0.2 mi
- Hester Street Park: 0.2 mi
- Seward Park: 0.3 mi
- Seward Park Extension Park: 0.3 mi
- M’Finda Kalunga Garden: 0.2 mi
- Children's Magical Garden: 0.2 mi
- Clinton Community Garden (LES): 0.3 mi
- Stuffolk Street Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Siempre Verde Garden: 0.3 mi
- Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 0.2 mi
- Zohramp: 0.2 mi
- Freeman Alley - Graffiti: 0.3 mi
- Liz Christy Garden: 0.4 mi
- Italian flag painted Apartments: 0.4 mi
- Stop Guns: 0.2 mi
- Vladimir Lenin: 0.3 mi
- “Togo”: 0.3 mi
- Audrey Hepburn: 0.4 mi
- Bust and monument to Archbishop John J. Hughes: 0.4 mi
- War Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Rt. Rev. John Dubois, 3rd Bishop of New York, burial marker: 0.4 mi
- Kimlau War Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Lin Zexu: 0.6 mi
- Samuel Sullivan Cox: 0.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 1.0 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 1.6 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 1.8 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 2.3 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 2.7 mi
- Bird Island: 1.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.4 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.1 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Grassy Hill: 2.8 mi
- Slide Hill: 2.8 mi
- Outlook Hill: 2.9 mi
- Discovery Hill: 2.9 mi
- Kings Bluff: 3.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 1.5 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 1.7 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 1.7 mi
- Street Seats: 3.1 mi
- Freedom Field: 3.9 mi
- Palisades: 3.3 mi
- Palisades: 3.9 mi
- Palisades: 6.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 8.3 mi
- Palisades: 12.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.1 mi
- The Loch: 5.5 mi
- The Falls: 14.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 2.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 17.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 17.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.8 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.2 mi
- Barber: 19.1 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 20.9 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 328° | 268 m | 20.5 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 310° | 263 m | 24.7 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NNW 327° | 260 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NNW 327° | 230 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 8° | 208 m | 23.1 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 325° | 185 m | 21.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 326° | 180 m | 21.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 296° | 179 m | 14.7 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 | 15:49 | 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.
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Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 0 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 0 mi
- Downstate New York · 1 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Gramercy Flatiron · 1 mi
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