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Brookville Park

Brookville Park from directly overhead

Brookville Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Idlewild Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
2 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.65769, -73.74631
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
  • Rosedale Vietnam Monument: 0.7 mi
  • TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 1.8 mi
  • Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 2.0 mi
  • HBFD Memorial: 2.6 mi
  • Hewlett Veterans Memorial: 2.7 mi
Nature reserves
Gardens
Artworks
  • History of Time: 2.0 mi
  • The Young Rembrandt: 2.1 mi
  • Voice of Tomorrow: 2.2 mi
  • Frog: 2.4 mi
  • Frog: 2.4 mi
Attractions
Museums
Beaches
Peaks: 48
  • Queens High Point: 7.1 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 9.5 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 10.5 mi
  • Harbor Hill: 11.3 mi
  • Willink Hill: 11.4 mi
Picnic sites: 31
  • Picnic Area D: 0.9 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 0.9 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 1.0 mi
  • Picnic Area B: 1.1 mi
Cliffs: 11
  • Coogan's Bluff: 15.8 mi
  • Palisades: 16.3 mi
  • Palisades: 16.5 mi
  • Palisades: 16.6 mi
  • Palisades: 19.1 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 5
  • Binnen Falls: 11.5 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 11.7 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 11.8 mi
  • The Loch: 14.6 mi
  • The Falls: 16.7 mi
Rest areas: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Todt HillWSW 259°125 m19.7 mi
Jayne's HillENE 57°122 m20.0 mi
Harbor HillNNE 30°106 m11.3 mi
West HillsNE 56°106 m19.8 mi
Dix HillsENE 62°92 m23.3 mi
Signal HillENE 61°90 m22.6 mi
Mannetto HillsENE 57°85 m18.0 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 334°85 m18.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
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, 2 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • common milkweed151 obs
  • American Robin123 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel116 obs
  • House Sparrow106 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird96 obs
  • common mugwort84 obs
  • Mallard81 obs
  • European Starling76 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/445519392

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