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Kosciusko Street Community Park / Learning Center

Kosciusko Street Community Park / Learning Center from directly overhead

Kosciusko Street Community Park / Learning Center is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 16 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Kosciuszko Street Garden, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.7 miles off. 56 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built
1998
Getting there

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Coordinates40.69225, -73.93927
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Artworks
Historic sites
Museums
Attractions
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.1 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.2 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.0 mi
  • Canarsie Beach: 5.2 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks: 56
  • Sullivan Hill: 2.4 mi
  • Willink Hill: 2.5 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 2.7 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 2.8 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.5 mi
  • Palisades: 6.9 mi
  • Palisades: 8.5 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.7 mi
  • Palisades: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 2.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.7 mi
  • The Loch: 7.2 mi
  • The Falls: 14.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kosciusko Street Community Park / Learning Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 325°268 m23.5 mi
Beech MountainNW 324°260 m24.6 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 324°230 m23.3 mi
Mount NeboN 2°208 m24.7 mi
Poacher PeakNW 323°185 m24.9 mi
Moon HillNW 323°180 m24.6 mi
Stony HillWNW 298°179 m17.9 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 287°175 m19.1 mi
Conditions

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.

Wildlife nearby
  • Spotted Lanternfly590 obs
  • tree-of-heaven425 obs
  • princess tree384 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee375 obs
  • Rock Pigeon371 obs
  • common mugwort341 obs
  • Mourning Dove258 obs
  • European Starling245 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/313984127

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