Matthew J. Buono Beach
Matthew J. Buono Beach is a beach in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Alice Austen House, a museum 0.1 miles away. Palisades Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off. 52 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Buono Beach is a small shorefront public park in the New York City borough of Staten Island, in the neighborhood of Rosebank, at the foot of Hylan Boulevard. Buono Beach borders New York Harbor and is adjacent to the park containing the Alice Austen House. The park contains a local veterans' memorial fountain. Buono Beach was named after Matthew "Giggy" Buono, a South Beach resident and graduate of New Dorp High School who died in the Vietnam War. Prior to its renaming in 1988, Buono Beach was called Penny Beach. Although the origin of that name is unknown, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation surmises that the beach was named for either the original name of Hylan Boulevard (Pennsylvania Avenue), or because the beach was once a "lovers' lane" where couples would toss coins into the harbor while making wishes. The park was damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012, and a large section of the park along Edgewater Street was closed for several years due to damage, but it reopened in 2016.
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Wikidata Q4998011, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 17.3 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 17.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 28.3 mi off the Millstone Valley Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Alice Austen House: 0.1 mi
- Mont Sec House: 0.6 mi
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum: 0.6 mi
- Fort Wadsworth Visitor's Center and Museum: 0.8 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 1.6 mi
- Alice Austen House and Park: 0.1 mi
- Reinhard E. Kaltenmeier Playground: 0.3 mi
- John E. White Playground: 0.5 mi
- Arthur von Briesen Park: 0.5 mi
- Nicholas de Matti Playground: 0.6 mi
- Rosebank Honor Rolll: 0.6 mi
- Battery Catlin: 0.6 mi
- Glacis Gun Battery: 0.6 mi
- Cannon: 0.8 mi
- Battery Duane: 0.8 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 1.0 mi
- Jones Woods Park: 2.2 mi
- Last Chance Pond Park: 2.9 mi
- Saint Francis Woodlands: 2.9 mi
- New Creek Bluebelt: 3.0 mi
- Hill Street Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Compost and Community Garden: 1.8 mi
- Narrows Botanical Gardens: 2.1 mi
- Tuscan Garden: 2.8 mi
- The Tuscan Garden: 2.8 mi
- Eyes: 1.1 mi
- South Beach: 1.7 mi
- Wingdale: 2.3 mi
- St. Anne: 2.9 mi
- St. Anthony: 2.9 mi
- The Gingerbread House: 1.5 mi
- Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House: 2.5 mi
- Jurassic Park: 2.9 mi
- Winter Flea + Smorgasburg: 4.0 mi
- New York City Farm Colony: 4.2 mi
- South Beach: 1.9 mi
- Midland Beach: 3.1 mi
- New Dorp Beach: 4.1 mi
- Cedar Grove Beach: 4.6 mi
- Oakwood Beach: 5.0 mi
- Fox Hills: 0.8 mi
- Park Hill: 0.9 mi
- Signal Hill: 1.4 mi
- Emerson Hill: 1.8 mi
- Todt Hill: 2.9 mi
- Freedom Field: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 6.4 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.4 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.6 mi
- Linden Airport mini-park: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 8.9 mi
- Palisades: 10.9 mi
- Palisades: 13.9 mi
- Hawk Hill: 15.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 16.4 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.0 mi
- The Loch: 13.5 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 15.1 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.9 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 11.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 11.0 mi
- North Tower: 15.6 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 15.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 11.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 11.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 14.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.7 mi
- Barber: 11.8 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 17.6 mi
- Raritan Landing: 22.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 15.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Matthew J. Buono Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 325° | 179 m | 16.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 313° | 175 m | 16.1 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NNW 337° | 144 m | 23.8 mi |
| Riker Hill | NW 314° | 134 m | 19.3 mi |
| Towackhow Mountain | NW 323° | 131 m | 24.8 mi |
| Long Hill | WNW 287° | 126 m | 20.6 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 250° | 125 m | 2.9 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 203° | 120 m | 16.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 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 | 16:33 |
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, 5 mi away.
Mean tidal range 4.47 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station USCG Station NY, NY, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/53721111
Day trips start here
- Bayonne · 5 mi
- Staten Island · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 7 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 7 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 7 mi
- Downstate New York · 8 mi
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