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First Quincy Street Community Garden

First Quincy Street Community Garden from directly overhead

First Quincy Street Community Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 17 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Shiloh Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 54 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Built
2001

How to reach it

Coordinates40.68788, -73.94433

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.7 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 2.9 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 3.9 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.0 mi
  • Canarsie Beach: 5.1 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks: 54
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.4 mi
  • Palisades: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 8.7 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 10.0 mi
  • Palisades: 14.1 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.3 mi
  • The Loch: 7.4 mi
  • The Falls: 14.9 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.8 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of First Quincy Street Community Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 326°268 m23.6 mi
Beech MountainNW 325°260 m24.7 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 325°230 m23.4 mi
Mount NeboN 2°208 m25.0 mi
Moon HillNW 324°180 m24.7 mi
Stony HillWNW 299°179 m17.9 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 288°175 m18.9 mi
Packanack MountainNW 317°144 m22.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 6 mi away.

  • American Robin880 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly803 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel668 obs
  • Mourning Dove618 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee617 obs
  • House Sparrow614 obs
  • Rock Pigeon548 obs
  • Northern Cardinal501 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/314054986

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