Yeshiva University Museum
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Yeshiva University Museum is a museum in New York, at a recorded elevation of 11 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Union Square Drinking Fountain, a artwork 0.2 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 8.2 miles off.
The story
The Yeshiva University Museum is a teaching museum and the cultural arm of Yeshiva University. Along with the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, it is a member organization of the Center for Jewish History, a Smithsonian Institution affiliate located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1973.
Wikidata Q8052851, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 11 m
What to expect
- Fee
- No
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 8.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 26.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Union Square Drinking Fountain: 0.2 mi
- Independence Flagstaff: 0.2 mi
- Old Union Square: 0.3 mi
- Metronome: 0.3 mi
- William Henry Seward Monument: 0.4 mi
- Mohandas Gandhi: 0.2 mi
- Abraham Lincoln: 0.2 mi
- George Washington: 0.2 mi
- Marquis de Lafayette: 0.3 mi
- Emma Lazarus: 0.3 mi
- Gandhi Garden: 0.2 mi
- The New School (Lang College) Park: 0.3 mi
- Golden Swan Garden: 0.6 mi
- Sasaki Garden: 0.7 mi
- Winston Churchill Square Garden: 0.7 mi
- Rubin Museum of Art: 0.3 mi
- Poster House: 0.4 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 0.5 mi
- National Museum of Mathematics: 0.5 mi
- Museum of Sex: 0.5 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site: 0.3 mi
- Chelsea Green: 0.3 mi
- Jefferson Market Garden: 0.4 mi
- NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent's Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Mulry Square: 0.4 mi
- Flatiron Building: 0.3 mi
- Flatiron District: 0.3 mi
- Mark Twain House: 0.3 mi
- La de forest house: 0.3 mi
- Cocktail Kingdom: 0.4 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 0.9 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 1.7 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 2.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 2.3 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 2.9 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.8 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Bird Island: 2.9 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 5.1 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.3 mi
- Kings Bluff: 2.4 mi
- Vista Rock: 3.1 mi
- Summit Rock: 3.4 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.8 mi
- Grassy Hill: 3.9 mi
- Street Seats: 2.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 2.8 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.0 mi
- Freedom Field: 4.4 mi
- Palisades: 2.6 mi
- Palisades: 2.6 mi
- Palisades: 4.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.1 mi
- Palisades: 11.0 mi
- The Loch: 4.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.5 mi
- The Falls: 13.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 2.1 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 19.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 19.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 6.2 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.8 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.8 mi
- Barber: 19.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.3 miles of Yeshiva University Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 326° | 268 m | 19.3 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 308° | 263 m | 23.8 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 325° | 260 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 326° | 230 m | 19.0 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 9° | 208 m | 21.8 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 324° | 185 m | 20.7 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 324° | 180 m | 20.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 291° | 179 m | 14.0 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 | 15:48 | 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, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/368061605
Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Gramercy Flatiron · 0 mi
- Manhattan/Greenwich Village · 0 mi
- Downstate New York · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Chelsea · 1 mi
- Manhattan/East Village · 1 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 1 mi
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