Sparrow's Nest Community Gardens
Sparrow's Nest Community Gardens is a garden in New York, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Lewis Simeone Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 5.8 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 5.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 22.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Lewis Simeone Park: 0.1 mi
- Josephine Caminiti Playground: 0.3 mi
- William F Moore Park: 0.3 mi
- Greenstreets: 0.3 mi
- Real Good Park: 0.4 mi
- Corona Taxpayers Association: 0.1 mi
- America-Israel Friendship Grove: 0.8 mi
- Arthur Ashe Sculpture Garden: 0.9 mi
- Althea Gibson Sculpture Garden: 0.9 mi
- Garden of Meditation: 1.0 mi
- Education Center: 0.5 mi
- Domestic Animals: 0.5 mi
- Domestic Animals: 0.5 mi
- Domestic Animals: 0.5 mi
- Feltman Carousel: 0.6 mi
- Whale: 0.6 mi
- Llama: 0.6 mi
- Turtle: 0.6 mi
- Interlaced: 0.7 mi
- African American Marbleization: 0.7 mi
- New York Hall of Science: 0.6 mi
- Queens Museum: 0.8 mi
- Louis Armstrong House Museum: 1.0 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 2.2 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 2.4 mi
- Observation Towers: 0.8 mi
- Unisphere: 0.8 mi
- Unisphere: 0.8 mi
- Unisphere: 0.9 mi
- Unisphere: 0.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 3.4 mi
- Janes Hill: 5.6 mi
- Mount Morris: 6.2 mi
- Vista Rock: 6.4 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.5 mi
- Parsons Beach: 5.9 mi
- Pebble Beach: 7.3 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 7.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 7.9 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 5.1 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.4 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.1 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 6.3 mi
- Virginia Point: 6.6 mi
- Street Seats: 4.7 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.3 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 7.9 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 8.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 7.6 mi
- Palisades: 8.4 mi
- Palisades: 8.7 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.4 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 20.7 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 20.7 mi
- The Loch: 6.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 7.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 7.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.0 mi
- The Falls: 10.3 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.7 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.7 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 24.4 miles of Sparrow's Nest Community Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 312° | 268 m | 23.8 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 311° | 230 m | 23.6 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 351° | 208 m | 21.6 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 284° | 179 m | 20.7 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 276° | 175 m | 22.6 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 13° | 156 m | 23.2 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 2° | 147 m | 24.1 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | WNW 303° | 144 m | 23.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 60 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Laguardia AP, 3 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven468 obs
- Rock Pigeon279 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel251 obs
- Mallard208 obs
- House Sparrow207 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly194 obs
- American Robin184 obs
- European Starling167 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/382243431
Day trips start here
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 2 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
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