Park · New York
Lou Gehrig Plaza
Lou Gehrig Plaza is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Joyce Kilmer Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 2.6 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 19 m
How to reach it
Coordinates40.82711, -73.92347
- 2.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 2.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 19.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Joyce Kilmer Park: 0.1 mi
- Jerome Slope: 0.4 mi
- Railroad Park: 0.4 mi
- Andrew Freedman House Gardens: 0.4 mi
- Arcilla Playground: 0.5 mi
Museums
- The Yankees Museum: 0.2 mi
- Bronx Museum of the Arts: 0.3 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 0.5 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 0.7 mi
- Morris-Jumel Mansion: 0.9 mi
Historic sites
- The Bat: 0.3 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 0.6 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 0.6 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 0.7 mi
- Macombs Dam Bridge: 0.8 mi
Gardens
- New Roots Community Farm: 0.4 mi
- Target Bronx Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Taqwa Community Farm: 0.5 mi
- Courtlandt Avenue Association Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- El Coqui Liberation Community Garden: 0.6 mi
Attractions
- Joker Stairs: 0.6 mi
- East 165th Street steps: 0.8 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.2 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 1.2 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 1.3 mi
Artworks
- Renaissance Youth Center: 0.9 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 1.3 mi
- Coral: 1.4 mi
- Invisible Man: A Memorial to Ralph Ellison: 1.4 mi
- Our Gates: 1.6 mi
Peaks
- Janes Hill: 1.2 mi
- Mount Morris: 1.9 mi
- Manhattan High Point: 1.9 mi
- Long Hill: 2.7 mi
- Great Hill: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 2.2 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 3.8 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.0 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 6.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 7.0 mi
Beaches
- Hazard Beach: 2.6 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 3.0 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 3.5 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 3.9 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.0 mi
Picnic sites: 42
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 1.8 mi
- Street Seats: 5.5 mi
- The Backyard: 7.8 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 8.3 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 9.0 mi
Cliffs: 18
- Coogan's Bluff: 0.9 mi
- Palisades: 3.7 mi
- Palisades: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 6.5 mi
- The Palisades: 8.5 mi
Waterfalls: 11
- The Loch: 2.9 mi
- The Falls: 6.1 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 11.7 mi
Lighthouses: 6
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 8.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 10.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 10.5 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 22.3 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 23.7 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 5.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.4 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Lou Gehrig Plaza. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 305° | 268 m | 17.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 305° | 260 m | 18.6 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | WNW 304° | 230 m | 17.3 mi |
| Hook Mountain | N 1° | 214 m | 20.3 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 359° | 208 m | 15.3 mi |
| Poacher Peak | WNW 304° | 185 m | 19.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | WNW 303° | 180 m | 18.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 267° | 179 m | 16.8 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 | 20:31 |
| 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 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 4 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel724 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly669 obs
- common mugwort491 obs
- House Sparrow468 obs
- American Robin398 obs
- American pokeweed362 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee350 obs
- Rock Pigeon347 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/923386400
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