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Olive Street Community Garden

Olive Street Community Garden from directly overhead

Olive Street Community Garden is a garden in New York, at a modelled elevation of 11 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Powers Street Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.4 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Built
1989

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.71327, -73.93906

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Historic sites
Parks
Attractions
  • MV Schamonchi: 0.4 mi
  • Historical landmark from 1877: 2.4 mi
  • Zohramp: 2.5 mi
  • Pepsi-Cola Sign: 2.6 mi
  • The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.6 mi
Museums
Artworks
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 2.8 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.3 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 3.9 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.2 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.8 mi
Peaks: 57
  • Laurel Hill: 1.4 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.5 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.8 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 4.0 mi
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 5.8 mi
  • Palisades: 5.8 mi
  • Palisades: 7.2 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.3 mi
  • Palisades: 12.3 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.9 mi
  • The Loch: 5.7 mi
  • The Falls: 13.2 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 18.7 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 323°268 m22.4 mi
Beech MountainNW 322°260 m23.4 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 322°230 m22.1 mi
Mount NeboN 2°208 m23.2 mi
Poacher PeakNW 321°185 m23.8 mi
Moon HillNW 321°180 m23.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 293°179 m17.3 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 283°175 m18.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
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, 5 mi away.

  • tree-of-heaven939 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly793 obs
  • common mugwort524 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee413 obs
  • Rock Pigeon382 obs
  • House Sparrow331 obs
  • princess tree300 obs
  • European Starling276 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/48598140

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