Skyscraper Museum
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Skyscraper Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Wagner Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 11 miles off.
The story
The Skyscraper Museum is an architecture museum in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, founded in 1996. The museum focuses on high-rise buildings as "products of technology, objects of design, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence." The Skyscraper Museum also celebrates the architectural heritage of New York and the forces and people who created New York's skyline. Before moving to the current and permanent location in Battery Park City in 2004, the museum was a nomadic institution, holding pop-up exhibitions in four temporary donated spaces around Lower Manhattan since 1996. The Skyscraper Museum was founded and is directed by Carol Willis, a professor of architectural history and urban studies at Columbia University. It includes two exhibition spaces for both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a bookstore, and a mezzanine with its office, situated above the bookstore. The museum can be reached by a ramp starting in the basement.
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Dates from 1997.
Wikidata Q2915494, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 10.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 11.1 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 29.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Wagner Park: 0.0 mi
- South Cove Park: 0.1 mi
- Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza: 0.2 mi
- Battery Park: 0.2 mi
- Bowling Green: 0.2 mi
- Sigillum Amstelo. Damensis Innovo Belgio.: 0.1 mi
- Peter Caesar Alberti Marker: 0.1 mi
- Giovanni Da Verrazzano: 0.1 mi
- New York Korean War Veterans Memorial: 0.1 mi
- American Merchant Mariners' Memorial: 0.1 mi
- The Immigrants: 0.2 mi
- Africa: 0.2 mi
- Sitting Stance: 0.2 mi
- John Ericsson: 0.2 mi
- Europe: 0.2 mi
- National Museum of the American Indian: 0.2 mi
- Fraunces Tavern Museum: 0.4 mi
- Museum of American Finance: 0.4 mi
- 9/11 Memorial & Museum: 0.5 mi
- MĒRCER LABS: 0.5 mi
- Liberty Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Millenium Park: 0.7 mi
- Robert Wagner Greenstreet: 0.9 mi
- Wedding Garden: 1.0 mi
- Terminal Field: 1.1 mi
- New York Stock Exchange: 0.3 mi
- The Genius of Communication: 0.3 mi
- Barthman's Sidewalk Clock: 0.5 mi
- One World Trade Center: 0.6 mi
- Saint Paul's Chapel: 0.6 mi
- Bird Island: 1.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 3.4 mi
- Audubon Park: 3.6 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.8 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 5.0 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 1.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 1.4 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 1.9 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 1.9 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 2.3 mi
- Grassy Hill: 1.3 mi
- Outlook Hill: 1.4 mi
- Slide Hill: 1.4 mi
- Discovery Hill: 1.4 mi
- Battle Hill: 3.7 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 1.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 1.2 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 1.2 mi
- Freedom Field: 2.2 mi
- Street Seats: 4.7 mi
- Palisades: 2.9 mi
- Palisades: 4.4 mi
- Palisades: 7.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.7 mi
- Palisades: 13.4 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.1 mi
- The Loch: 6.9 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 14.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 1.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.9 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 18.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 18.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.5 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 16.4 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 16.5 mi
- Barber: 17.5 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 19.4 mi
- Tulip Springs: 14.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Skyscraper Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 333° | 268 m | 20.6 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 314° | 263 m | 24.3 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NNW 331° | 260 m | 21.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NNW 332° | 230 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNE 11° | 208 m | 24.2 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NNW 330° | 185 m | 21.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NNW 330° | 180 m | 21.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 302° | 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 | 05:26 | 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, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Financial District · 0 mi
- Downstate New York · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 1 mi
- Manhattan/SoHo · 1 mi
- Manhattan/TriBeCa · 1 mi
- New York City · 1 mi
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