Dana Borell Garden
Dana Borell Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Manhattan Beach Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks & Recreation
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 17.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 19.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Manhattan Beach Park: 0.1 mi
- Shore Boulevard Mall: 0.3 mi
- Tucker Place: 0.4 mi
- Babi Yar Triangle Playground: 0.6 mi
- Holocaust Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
- Manhattan Beach: 0.1 mi
- Kingsborough Beach Park: 0.5 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 1.2 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 1.9 mi
- Fort Tilden Beach: 3.0 mi
- KCC Urban Farm: 0.6 mi
- Edible Schoolyard NYC: 1.6 mi
- Santos White Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- West 23rd Street Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- Surfside Multicultural Garden Coalition: 2.7 mi
- Holocaust Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Bill Brown Post Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Theodore Roosevelt Memorial: 1.3 mi
- September 11th Victims Memorial: 1.5 mi
- To All Veterans, Living or Dead: 1.8 mi
- Postcards From Sheepshead Bay: 0.9 mi
- Fisherman: 1.0 mi
- Giant Squid: 1.3 mi
- First Symphony of the Sea: 1.6 mi
- K. 159: 1.7 mi
- Sharks: 1.6 mi
- Sea Cliffs: 1.6 mi
- Conservation Hall: 1.7 mi
- Glover's Reef: 1.7 mi
- Coney Island Cyclone: 1.8 mi
- Piping Plover Protected area: 2.0 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 2.6 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 3.0 mi
- Rookery: 4.7 mi
- Swinburne Island: 5.6 mi
- Ryan Visitor Center: 2.6 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 3.4 mi
- Living Torah Museum: 4.4 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 5.0 mi
- Harbor Defense Museum: 5.1 mi
- Lookout Hill: 5.7 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.8 mi
- Willink Hill: 5.9 mi
- Quaker Hill: 6.0 mi
- Battle Hill: 6.0 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 6.9 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.8 mi
- Freedom Field: 10.2 mi
- Palisades: 12.6 mi
- Palisades: 13.9 mi
- Palisades: 16.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 17.6 mi
- Palisades: 21.7 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 8.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 8.6 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 11.2 mi
- North Tower: 12.7 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 12.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 6.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.1 mi
- The Loch: 15.0 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 21.6 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 16.8 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 16.9 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 17.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.9 mi
- Barber: 16.8 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.3 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dana Borell Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 316° | 179 m | 22.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | NW 307° | 175 m | 22.5 mi |
| Todt Hill | W 280° | 125 m | 9.1 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SW 225° | 120 m | 18.0 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 224° | 106 m | 17.4 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 46° | 106 m | 22.1 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 300° | 92 m | 22.0 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 5° | 85 m | 22.3 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 | 19:49 | 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, 2 mi away.
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab947 obs
- Laughing Gull314 obs
- Ring-billed Gull256 obs
- American Herring Gull242 obs
- Rock Pigeon200 obs
- American Oystercatcher192 obs
- Brant183 obs
- Atlantic Sand Fiddler Crab169 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/1081554709
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 8 mi
- Queens · 9 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 10 mi
- Downstate New York · 10 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 10 mi
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