Brooklyn Bucolic
Brooklyn Bucolic is an artwork in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is FDR Memorial, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 14 miles off. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The artwork, along the north and east facades of the station house, consists of casual groupings of cast bronze rocking chairs, anchored in place.
What the record says
- Material
- bronze
How to reach it
- 14.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 15.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- FDR Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Playground: 0.7 mi
- Dutch Heritage: 1.2 mi
- K.S.: 1.6 mi
- Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine: 1.8 mi
- Campus Road Tot Lot: 0.3 mi
- Green street: 0.6 mi
- Paul W. Kolbert Park: 0.7 mi
- Lieutenant Federico Narvaez Tot Lot: 0.7 mi
- DiGilio Playground: 0.8 mi
- Now & Then: 0.7 mi
- Mother Teresa Statue: 1.4 mi
- Hulk: 1.5 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 2.0 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 2.1 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 1.1 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 1.4 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 2.4 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 2.4 mi
- Brooklyn Museum: 2.8 mi
- Rogers/Tilden/Veronica Place Block Association Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Q Gardens: 1.4 mi
- Father Kehoe Triangle: 1.5 mi
- Caton Migration Garden: 1.5 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 1.5 mi
- Historic Wyckoff-Bennett-Mont Residence: 1.4 mi
- Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead: 1.4 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 1.7 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 1.8 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 2.1 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 3.5 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.9 mi
- Rookery: 4.6 mi
- Bird Island: 5.0 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 5.7 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 3.6 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 3.8 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.9 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 4.0 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 4.1 mi
- Lookout Hill: 2.0 mi
- Breeze Hill: 2.0 mi
- Willink Hill: 2.2 mi
- Quaker Hill: 2.2 mi
- Battle Hill: 2.4 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.9 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.1 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.9 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 7.3 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
- Palisades: 10.2 mi
- Palisades: 12.5 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 14.1 mi
- Palisades: 18.1 mi
- Binnen Falls: 2.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 2.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 2.4 mi
- The Loch: 11.4 mi
- The Falls: 19.0 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.8 mi
- North Tower: 16.2 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 16.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 16.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.4 mi
- Barber: 17.0 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.6 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brooklyn Bucolic. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 311° | 179 m | 19.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 300° | 175 m | 19.8 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 303° | 134 m | 22.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 256° | 125 m | 8.3 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 216° | 120 m | 20.2 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 214° | 106 m | 19.7 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 55° | 106 m | 20.5 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 292° | 92 m | 19.6 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 | 15:49 | 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 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/13308627999
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 6 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 6 mi
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