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Ascenzi Square

Ascenzi Square from directly overhead

Ascenzi Square is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 7 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Conners Square, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.8 miles off. 59 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
7 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates40.71448, -73.95703
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Conners Square: 0.0 mi
  • Sister Nicodema Plaza: 0.1 mi
  • Grand Street Garden: 0.1 mi
  • El Puente Espíritu Tierra Community Garden: 0.2 mi
  • Macri Triangle: 0.3 mi
Museums
Gardens
Artworks
  • Prayer: 0.3 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 0.3 mi
  • 9/11: 0.5 mi
  • Lounge Screw Conveyor: 0.6 mi
  • Deluge of Movement: 0.6 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Attractions
  • MV Schamonchi: 1.3 mi
  • Zohramp: 1.5 mi
  • Jump into the Light VR Arcade: 1.7 mi
  • Couv Led Zepp 5e album: 1.7 mi
  • Anarchy 99: 1.7 mi
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 1.9 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 2.5 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 3.3 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.0 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.0 mi
Peaks: 59
  • Laurel Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 3.3 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.5 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Quaker Hill: 3.8 mi
Picnic sites: 40
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 4.9 mi
  • Palisades: 5.1 mi
  • Palisades: 6.8 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Palisades: 12.3 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.5 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.7 mi
  • The Loch: 5.6 mi
  • The Falls: 13.5 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 17.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 325°268 m21.7 mi
Beech MountainNW 324°260 m22.8 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 324°230 m21.5 mi
Mount NeboN 4°208 m23.2 mi
Poacher PeakNW 322°185 m23.1 mi
Moon HillNW 323°180 m22.8 mi
Stony HillWNW 294°179 m16.4 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 283°175 m17.8 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, 5 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • tree-of-heaven1,113 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly1,055 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee798 obs
  • Rock Pigeon779 obs
  • Monarch748 obs
  • common mugwort637 obs
  • House Sparrow614 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel609 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/365936496

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