Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck
Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck is a picnic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 10 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Marcus Garvey Memorial Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 3.5 miles off.
No longer a pool, this area of the main pool deck is now the distribution point for free lunches for school-aged children on pool opening days
How to reach it
- 3.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 3.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 21.2 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Marcus Garvey Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
- Collyer Brothers Park: 0.2 mi
- Rev. Linnette C Williamson Memorial Park: 0.3 mi
- Dr. Ronald E. McNair Playground: 0.3 mi
- Harlem Grown 127th Street Learning Annex: 0.3 mi
- Mount Morris: 0.1 mi
- Great Hill: 1.0 mi
- Janes Hill: 1.7 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.1 mi
- Vista Rock: 2.3 mi
- W 124th St Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- West 123rd Street Community Garden: 0.3 mi
- Harlem Rose Garden: 0.3 mi
- Unity Park: 0.3 mi
- Life Spire Garden: 0.3 mi
- Taste Harlem Tour: 0.2 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 0.8 mi
- Huddlestone Arch: 0.9 mi
- Glen Span Arch: 1.1 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 1.3 mi
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: 0.3 mi
- The Studio Museum In Harlem: 0.3 mi
- The Africa Center: 0.7 mi
- El Museo Del Barrio: 0.9 mi
- Museum of the City of New York: 1.0 mi
- La Luz Que Sale De La Obscuridad: 0.3 mi
- Growth: 0.3 mi
- Higher Ground: 0.4 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 0.5 mi
- Crack Is Wack: 0.6 mi
- Gas Explosion Empty Lot: 0.4 mi
- Harriet Tubman Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 0.7 mi
- Duke Ellington Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Farmers Gate: 0.7 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.5 mi
- Hazard Beach: 3.5 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.5 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 5.0 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.3 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.7 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.3 mi
- Street Seats: 3.8 mi
- The Backyard: 6.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Palisades: 2.5 mi
- Palisades: 4.8 mi
- Palisades: 6.0 mi
- Palisades: 6.8 mi
- The Loch: 1.1 mi
- The Falls: 7.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 9.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.1 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.9 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 23.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 4.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 12.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.6 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.1 miles of Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 311° | 268 m | 17.6 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 310° | 260 m | 18.7 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 310° | 230 m | 17.4 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 3° | 208 m | 16.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 309° | 185 m | 19.1 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 309° | 180 m | 18.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 272° | 179 m | 15.7 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 263° | 175 m | 18.2 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 | 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, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 0 mi
- Manhattan · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Central Park · 2 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 2 mi
- Fort Lee · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 3 mi
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