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The Drawing Center

The Drawing Center, a museum in New York
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The Drawing Center is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 9.3 miles off.

About

The story

The Drawing Center is a museum and a nonprofit exhibition space in Manhattan, New York City, that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1977.

Wikidata Q3039170, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Height
23.3 m
Visiting

What to expect

Fee
No
Step-free access
No

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.72244, -74.00291
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
Attractions
  • Queen of Green Street: 0.1 mi
  • King of Green Street: 0.1 mi
  • SoHo: 0.2 mi
  • Color Factory: 0.3 mi
  • Little Singer Building: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Artworks
  • Octetra: 0.2 mi
  • New York Subway Stations: 0.2 mi
  • Lorca-El Niño de las Pinturas: 0.3 mi
  • New York Earth Room: 0.3 mi
  • Bust of Sylvette: 0.3 mi
Beaches
Nature reserves
Peaks
  • Grassy Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Outlook Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Slide Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Discovery Hill: 2.8 mi
  • Kings Bluff: 3.1 mi
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 2.6 mi
  • Palisades: 3.4 mi
  • Palisades: 6.0 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.3 mi
  • Palisades: 12.1 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 4.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 4.6 mi
  • The Loch: 5.5 mi
  • The Falls: 14.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 24.8 miles of The Drawing Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 329°268 m20.0 mi
Waughaw MountainNW 310°263 m24.1 mi
Beech MountainNNW 328°260 m21.0 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 329°230 m19.7 mi
Mount NeboN 10°208 m22.9 mi
Poacher PeakNNW 327°185 m21.3 mi
Moon HillNNW 327°180 m21.0 mi
Stony HillWNW 296°179 m14.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/249664327

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