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Alexander Grey Triangle

Alexander Grey Triangle from directly overhead

Alexander Grey Triangle is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Whitestone Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.7 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
8 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.79519, -73.81374

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Museums
Artworks
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 3.1 mi
  • Pinetum: 3.1 mi
  • Oak Allée: 3.1 mi
  • Deciduous Conifer Forest: 3.2 mi
  • Floral Border: 3.2 mi
Beaches
  • Parsons Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 5.9 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 6.0 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 6.0 mi
  • Glen Island: 6.3 mi
Peaks
  • Janes Hill: 5.2 mi
  • Queens High Point: 5.6 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 6.3 mi
  • Mount Morris: 6.8 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 7.3 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 19
Lighthouses: 7
Waterfalls: 7
  • The Falls: 6.6 mi
  • The Loch: 7.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 12.2 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 12.4 mi
Rest areas: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.5 miles of Alexander Grey Triangle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillN 0°211 m21.8 mi
Mount NeboNNW 341°208 m18.5 mi
Reynolds HillN 6°180 m21.6 mi
Stony HillW 273°179 m22.5 mi
Cooney HillNNE 11°170 m21.5 mi
Kennelwood HillN 9°156 m19.0 mi
Kykuit HillN 355°147 m20.4 mi
Beaver HillN 358°140 m18.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 4 mi away.

  • common mugwort542 obs
  • common reed81 obs
  • Canada Goose73 obs
  • Monarch67 obs
  • American Robin65 obs
  • ribwort plantain62 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel57 obs
  • Atlantic Blue Crab54 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/113727161

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