Garden · New York
45th Street Composters
45th Street Composters is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 21 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Torsney/Lou Lodati Playground, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.9 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Coordinates40.74618, -73.91938
- 5.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 23.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Torsney/Lou Lodati Playground: 0.2 mi
- Joe Sabba Park: 0.3 mi
- John Downing Park: 0.3 mi
- Vincent Daniels Square: 0.3 mi
- Sunnyside Gardens Park: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
- Site of the Sunnyside Garden Arena: 0.2 mi
- Gelasio Reyes: 0.3 mi
- Doughboy, WWI vets: 0.6 mi
- 9/11 woodside firefighters memorial: 0.6 mi
- Soldier's Monument: 1.2 mi
Artworks
- Bear: 0.6 mi
- Rocket: 0.6 mi
- Rocket: 0.6 mi
- Surreal Elevator: 0.9 mi
- Mahbuhay: 1.2 mi
Attractions
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 0.7 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 1.4 mi
- Blackwell House: 1.9 mi
- Roosevelt Island Sign: 2.0 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 2.0 mi
Museums
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.7 mi
- Museum of the Moving Image: 0.7 mi
- MoMA PS1: 1.5 mi
- The Noguchi Museum: 1.7 mi
- Underpenny Museum Antique & Collectables: 1.8 mi
Gardens
- Moore Jackson Community Garden: 0.9 mi
- Farm on other side of BQE: 1.2 mi
- Farm on hill by BQE: 1.2 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 1.2 mi
- New Roots Community Garden Queens: 1.3 mi
Peaks
- Laurel Hill: 1.1 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 1.5 mi
- Vista Rock: 3.5 mi
- Summit Rock: 3.7 mi
- Great Hill: 4.1 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 1.8 mi
- Pebble Beach: 4.7 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.8 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 5.4 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 5.5 mi
Nature reserves
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 2.5 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Bird Island: 5.4 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.8 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 7.4 mi
Picnic sites: 43
- Street Seats: 1.5 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 4.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 5.3 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 5.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 5.5 mi
Cliffs: 16
- Palisades: 5.6 mi
- Palisades: 5.7 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 6.1 mi
- Palisades: 6.5 mi
- Palisades: 10.1 mi
Waterfalls: 10
- The Loch: 4.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.2 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.4 mi
- The Falls: 10.7 mi
Lighthouses: 10
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 6.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 12.9 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 13.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.1 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 23.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.9 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 19.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.0 miles of 45th Street Composters. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 317° | 268 m | 21.3 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 316° | 260 m | 22.4 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 316° | 230 m | 21.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 359° | 208 m | 20.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 315° | 185 m | 22.8 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 315° | 180 m | 22.5 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 285° | 179 m | 17.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 276° | 175 m | 19.4 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 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven1,061 obs
- common mugwort373 obs
- Rock Pigeon348 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly324 obs
- House Sparrow225 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod192 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel181 obs
- Japanese knotweed169 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/963498466
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- Manhattan · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Midtown East · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 3 mi
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