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Bildersee Playground

Bildersee Playground from directly overhead

Bildersee Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 2 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Glenwood Playground, a park 0.4 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.63552, -73.91142

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
Beaches
  • Canarsie Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Gerritsen Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Kingsborough Beach Park: 4.3 mi
  • Manhattan Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Jacob Riis Park Beach 7: 5.2 mi
Historic sites
Gardens
Artworks
Nature reserves
Peaks: 46
Picnic sites: 34
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 10.2 mi
  • Palisades: 10.9 mi
  • Palisades: 12.7 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 13.7 mi
  • Palisades: 17.8 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 3.4 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.6 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.6 mi
  • The Loch: 11.3 mi
  • The Falls: 17.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 1
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.6 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillNW 305°179 m21.2 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 296°175 m21.9 mi
Riker HillWNW 299°134 m24.9 mi
Todt HillWSW 257°125 m10.9 mi
Crawford HillSW 221°120 m22.2 mi
Harbor HillNE 51°106 m18.2 mi
Telegraph HillSW 220°106 m21.6 mi
Nook HillWNW 289°92 m21.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:4920:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.

  • common mugwort119 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly103 obs
  • Rock Pigeon87 obs
  • European Starling83 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel58 obs
  • House Sparrow51 obs
  • prickly lettuce48 obs
  • Laughing Gull47 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1133961150

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