Park · New York
Bruckner Playground
Bruckner Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Hook Mountain stands 214 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Will Cintron Soccer Fields, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 2.3 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.82667, -73.82861
- 2.3 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 7.1 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 16.6 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Will Cintron Soccer Fields: 0.3 mi
- Miele Park: 0.6 mi
- Derosa-O'Boyle Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Schneider-Sampson Park: 0.7 mi
- Bicentennial Veterans Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
Artworks
- Shamrock: 0.8 mi
- Dolphin: 2.6 mi
- Poppenhusen: 2.8 mi
- Wilhelm Tell: 3.2 mi
- Bruce Lee Mural: 3.3 mi
Gardens
- Garden in the Park: 0.8 mi
- Havemeyer Garden Association Community Garden: 1.0 mi
- Waterfront Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Strawberry Field: 1.8 mi
- Manor Avenue Seniors Garden: 2.5 mi
Historic sites
- Westchester Square: 1.2 mi
- Pelham Bay Park World War Memorial: 1.9 mi
- 9/11: 2.6 mi
- World War 2: 2.9 mi
- Glover's Rock: 3.0 mi
Nature reserves
- Pugsley Creek Park: 1.6 mi
- Virginia Point: 5.6 mi
- Titus Mill Pond State Tidal Wetlands: 5.8 mi
- Half Moon Wetland Conservancy: 5.8 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 6.1 mi
Museums
- Maritime National Museum: 2.5 mi
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum: 3.3 mi
- American Merchant Marine Museum: 3.6 mi
- Steere Herbarium: 3.8 mi
- Lewis Howard Latimer House Museum: 4.2 mi
Attractions
- Jungle World: 2.8 mi
- Nature Trek: 2.9 mi
- Lions: 2.9 mi
- World of Darkness: 3.0 mi
- Dholes: 3.0 mi
Peaks
- Janes Hill: 4.5 mi
- Marble Hill: 5.5 mi
- Vault Hill: 5.9 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Hill: 5.9 mi
- Long Hill: 6.0 mi
Beaches
- Glen Island: 4.6 mi
- Parsons Beach: 5.4 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 6.2 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 6.2 mi
- Hudson Park Beach: 6.3 mi
Picnic sites: 40
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.2 mi
- Street Seats: 8.2 mi
- Alpine picnic area: 9.6 mi
- Excelsior Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
- Reserved Picnic Site: 12.5 mi
Cliffs: 19
- Coogan's Bluff: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 7.4 mi
- Palisades: 8.6 mi
- The Palisades: 9.8 mi
- Palisades: 10.8 mi
Waterfalls: 11
- The Falls: 4.3 mi
- The Loch: 7.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 13.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 13.5 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 13.6 mi
Lighthouses: 7
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 5.8 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 5.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.6 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 17.6 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 19.7 mi
Rest areas: 2
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 18.3 mi
Ghost towns: 1
- Cuties Island: 22.0 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.9 miles of Bruckner Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hook Mountain | NNW 347° | 214 m | 20.9 mi |
| Buttermilk Hill | N 3° | 211 m | 19.6 mi |
| Mount Nebo | NNW 342° | 208 m | 16.2 mi |
| Reynolds Hill | N 9° | 180 m | 19.5 mi |
| Round Hill | NNE 23° | 172 m | 20.8 mi |
| Cooney Hill | NNE 15° | 170 m | 19.6 mi |
| Kennelwood Hill | NNE 12° | 156 m | 17.0 mi |
| Kykuit Hill | N 357° | 147 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:47 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 42 | 53 | 63 | 73 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 1 mi away.
- common mugwort2,328 obs
- groundsel tree136 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly103 obs
- common reed92 obs
- tree-of-heaven80 obs
- Rock Pigeon64 obs
- white snakeroot62 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel61 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357633401
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- Bronx · 3 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 6 mi
- Mount Vernon · 6 mi
- Pelham · 6 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 6 mi
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