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Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden

Sixth Street and Avenue B Community Garden from directly overhead

Sixth Street and Avenue B Community 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 The Creative Little Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.0 miles off. 60 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Built
1982

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.72440, -73.98212

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Historic sites
Parks
Museums
Attractions
  • Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 0.3 mi
  • Anarchy 99: 0.3 mi
  • Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 0.4 mi
  • Zohramp: 0.5 mi
  • Liz Christy Garden: 0.5 mi
Artworks
Beaches
Peaks: 60
  • Laurel Hill: 3.1 mi
  • Grassy Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Slide Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Outlook Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Kings Bluff: 3.5 mi
Picnic sites: 41
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 3.5 mi
  • Palisades: 3.7 mi
  • Palisades: 5.9 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 7.8 mi
  • Palisades: 11.7 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 4.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 4.4 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 4.4 mi
  • The Loch: 5.0 mi
  • The Falls: 13.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 16.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 326°268 m20.4 mi
Waughaw MountainNW 308°263 m24.8 mi
Beech MountainNW 325°260 m21.5 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 326°230 m20.2 mi
Mount NeboN 7°208 m22.6 mi
Poacher PeakNW 324°185 m21.8 mi
Moon HillNW 324°180 m21.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 294°179 m15.0 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, 4 mi away.

  • Rock Pigeon3,437 obs
  • House Sparrow1,762 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel1,661 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly1,429 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,122 obs
  • Western Honey Bee1,083 obs
  • Monarch1,067 obs
  • European Starling1,057 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/237523062

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