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Beach Channel Playground

Beach Channel Playground from directly overhead

Beach Channel Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Vernam Barbadoes Peninsula, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
2 m
Getting there

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Coordinates40.58889, -73.80583
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Beach 88th Street Park: 0.5 mi
  • Kohlridir Square: 0.5 mi
  • Almeda Playground: 0.7 mi
  • Thursby Basin Park: 0.9 mi
  • Beach 59th Street Playground: 0.9 mi
Beaches
Historic sites
  • Flight 587 Memorial: 1.8 mi
  • TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 4.2 mi
  • Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 4.4 mi
  • Battery Fergusson: 4.4 mi
  • LCFD Memorial: 4.6 mi
Artworks
Museums
Gardens
Attractions
Peaks: 41
Picnic sites: 31
  • Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 2.2 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 5.2 mi
  • Picnic Area A: 5.2 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 5.3 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 5.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 5
  • Binnen Falls: 9.8 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 10.0 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 10.0 mi
  • The Loch: 16.3 mi
  • The Falls: 20.8 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Palisades: 16.4 mi
  • Palisades: 16.8 mi
  • Palisades: 18.0 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 18.2 mi
  • Palisades: 22.1 mi
Rest areas: 3
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Todt HillW 273°125 m16.2 mi
Crawford HillSW 236°120 m24.2 mi
Harbor HillNNE 31°106 m16.9 mi
Telegraph HillSW 235°106 m23.5 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 347°85 m22.0 mi
Mannetto HillsNE 52°85 m23.3 mi
Manhattan High PointNNW 339°81 m19.5 mi
Queens High PointNNE 21°79.2 m12.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:07
June solstice05:2519:4920:30
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1615:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333541516170767568574738
Precip in3.22.83.93.63.73.93.94.13.63.73.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 4 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • American Oystercatcher183 obs
  • Laughing Gull155 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab141 obs
  • northern seaside goldenrod82 obs
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron72 obs
  • American Herring Gull69 obs
  • Atlantic Sand Crab66 obs
  • common mugwort66 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 node/357640377

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