Parkchester Library
Parkchester Library is a library in Bronx, New York which is located on Westchester Avenue. Parkchester Library is situated nearby to the synagogue Temple Emanuel, as well as near Parkchester Baptist Church.Photo: HugoHelp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Library
- Description: public library in the Bronx, New York, USA
- Also known as: “NYPL Parkchester Library”, “Parkchester Branch”, and “Parkchester Library, New York Public Library”
- Address: 1985 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY 10462
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parkchester station and Metropolitan Oval.
Parkchester station
Metro station
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Not to be confused with Parkchester/Van Nest station, a nearby, proposed Metro-North Railroad station as part of Penn Station Access The Parkchester station is an express station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Parkchester station is situated 750 feet west of Parkchester Library.
Metropolitan Oval
Park
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The Metropolitan Oval, also known as Met Oval, is a soccer complex located in Maspeth, Queens in New York City. Village Voice named the complex, which takes up 4.2 acres, the "Best full soccer field in the middle of a residential neighborhood" in 2004, for its "pristine" playing surface and the view of the Manhattan skyline.
Castle Hill Avenue station
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The Castle Hill Avenue station is a local station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Castle Hill and Westchester Avenues in the Castle Hill neighborhood of the Bronx, it is served by the 6 train at all times except weekdays in the peak direction, when the <6> train takes over. Castle Hill Avenue station is situated 1,900 feet east of Parkchester Library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Parkchester and Westchester Square.
Parkchester
Neighborhood
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Parkchester is a planned community and neighborhood originally developed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and located in the east Bronx, New York City.
Westchester Square
Neighborhood
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Westchester Square is a residential neighborhood geographically located in the eastern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are: East Tremont Avenue and Silver Street, Blondell Avenue and Westchester Creek to the east, Waterbury Avenue to the south and Castle Hill Avenue to the west.
Van Nest
Neighborhood
Photo: TheBronxNYC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Van Nest is a working-class neighborhood geographically located in the East Bronx section of the Bronx, New York City. Going clockwise, its boundaries are Bronxdale Avenue to the northeast, the Amtrak tracks to the southeast, and Bronx Park to the west.
Parkchester Library
- Categories: library branch, public library, library building, building, and education
- Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.83376° or 40° 50′ 2″ northLongitude
-73.85835° or 73° 51′ 30″ westHeight
31 feet (9.3 metres)Operator
New York Public LibraryOpen location code
87G8R4MR+GMOpenStreetMap ID
way 281848632OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=libraryOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q69968662
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