The City Don't Sleep
The City Don't Sleep is an artwork in New York, at a modelled elevation of 18 m. Mount Nebo stands 208 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Richmond Hill Branch, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.8 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Only visible from satellite view in OSM. Haven't checked if visible in Google
How to reach it
- 8.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 12.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 24.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Richmond Hill Branch: 0.0 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Mast of Yacht Columbia: 1.3 mi
- Memorial to the Veterans of World War I of Forest Hills: 1.3 mi
- Jacob Riis Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Metro Triangle: 0.4 mi
- Lieutenant Frank McConnell Park: 0.5 mi
- courtyard: 0.5 mi
- Eight Oaks Triangle: 0.5 mi
- Egret: 0.7 mi
- Dolphin: 1.3 mi
- Absent Monuments: 1.5 mi
- Jamaica Center Station Riders: 1.7 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 1.8 mi
- Veteran Memorial Garden Of Queens: 0.9 mi
- George Eagle Carr Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- 9/11 Memorial Garden: 1.4 mi
- Dunton Community Garden: 1.5 mi
- Paradise Community Garden NY: 1.6 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 1.3 mi
- Welcome Center: 2.5 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 3.0 mi
- Feltman Carousel: 3.1 mi
- Domestic Animals: 3.1 mi
- King Manor Museum: 1.5 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 2.5 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 2.6 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 3.2 mi
- Queens Museum: 3.2 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.5 mi
- Hook Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 6.0 mi
- Rookery: 6.0 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 6.1 mi
- Inwood Bay State Tidal Wetland: 6.8 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 5.7 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.4 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 7.2 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 8.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 8.3 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.1 mi
- Laurel Hill: 5.2 mi
- Queens High Point: 7.1 mi
- Willink Hill: 7.4 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 7.6 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 5.8 mi
- Picnic Area D: 6.1 mi
- Picnic Area C: 6.2 mi
- Picnic Area F: 6.3 mi
- Picnic Area G: 6.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Palisades: 11.0 mi
- Palisades: 11.2 mi
- Palisades: 11.5 mi
- Palisades: 14.4 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.6 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 18.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 18.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.8 mi
- The Loch: 9.3 mi
- The Falls: 13.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 20.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The City Don't Sleep. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Nebo | NNW 348° | 208 m | 24.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 290° | 179 m | 22.9 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 282° | 175 m | 24.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 245° | 125 m | 16.4 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 69° | 122 m | 22.7 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 56° | 106 m | 12.2 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 69° | 106 m | 22.4 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 345° | 85 m | 14.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| 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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/5515254139
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 1 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 2 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 5 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 6 mi
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