6BC Botanical Garden
6BC Botanical Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Fifth Street Slope Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.9 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1981
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 8.9 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.0 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Fifth Street Slope Garden: 0.0 mi
- Lower East Side Ecology Center Garden: 0.1 mi
- Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden: 0.1 mi
- The Humanitarians Garden: 0.1 mi
- Secret Garden: 0.1 mi
- Tompkins Square Park: 0.2 mi
- Orchard Alley: 0.2 mi
- Hartman Triangle: 0.2 mi
- McKinley Playground: 0.3 mi
- Hamilton Fish Park: 0.3 mi
- Samuel Sullivan Cox: 0.2 mi
- Slocum Disaster Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Milan R. Stefanik: 0.2 mi
- Peter Stuyvesant: 0.5 mi
- Daniel D. Tompkins: 0.6 mi
- Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space: 0.2 mi
- The Brant Foundation Art Study Center: 0.3 mi
- The Ukrainian Museum: 0.5 mi
- International Center of Photography: 0.6 mi
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum: 0.6 mi
- Vladimir Lenin: 0.3 mi
- Michael Jackson Mural: 0.4 mi
- Stop Guns: 0.5 mi
- Penn Station Eagle: 0.6 mi
- I♥NY More Than Ever!: 0.6 mi
- Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 0.3 mi
- Anarchy 99: 0.4 mi
- Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 0.4 mi
- Zohramp: 0.5 mi
- Liz Christy Garden: 0.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.1 mi
- Bird Island: 2.1 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.0 mi
- Audubon Park: 5.7 mi
- Riverbend Wetlands Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Pebble Beach: 1.4 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 1.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 2.1 mi
- Newport Sand Beach: 2.7 mi
- Maxwell Place Beach: 2.8 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.1 mi
- Grassy Hill: 3.4 mi
- Slide Hill: 3.4 mi
- Outlook Hill: 3.4 mi
- Discovery Hill: 3.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 2.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 2.2 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 2.3 mi
- Street Seats: 2.5 mi
- Freedom Field: 4.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.5 mi
- Palisades: 3.8 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 4.2 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.4 mi
- The Loch: 5.0 mi
- The Falls: 13.5 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 2.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 16.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 18.1 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 18.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 7.4 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 18.7 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 18.8 mi
- Barber: 19.7 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 16.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of 6BC Botanical Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 326° | 268 m | 20.5 mi |
| Waughaw Mountain | NW 308° | 263 m | 24.9 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 325° | 260 m | 21.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 326° | 230 m | 20.2 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 7° | 208 m | 22.6 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 324° | 185 m | 21.9 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 324° | 180 m | 21.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 294° | 179 m | 15.0 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 | 15:48 | 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 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 4 mi away.
- Rock Pigeon3,328 obs
- House Sparrow1,720 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,602 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly1,402 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,076 obs
- European Starling1,030 obs
- Monarch1,012 obs
- Western Honey Bee1,001 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.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/237532026
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