Centreville Playground
Centreville Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Vito Locascio Field, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 49 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 10.7 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.2 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Vito Locascio Field: 0.3 mi
- Rocket Park: 0.4 mi
- Wellbrook Triangle: 0.6 mi
- Dumont Triangle: 0.7 mi
- Harold Schneiderman Playground: 0.7 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 1.4 mi
- Rookery: 4.0 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 4.1 mi
- Hook Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 5.3 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 5.5 mi
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 1.6 mi
- Euclid Garden: 1.7 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- Manley's Place: 2.0 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 2.2 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 1.7 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 2.9 mi
- King Manor Museum: 2.9 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 4.5 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 4.7 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 1.7 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 2.0 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 2.0 mi
- Richmond Hill War Memorial: 2.1 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 2.1 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 1.9 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 2.1 mi
- Dolphin: 2.3 mi
- Mastodon: 2.7 mi
- Egret: 2.7 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 2.3 mi
- JFK: 3.0 mi
- Welcome Center: 4.6 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 4.7 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 5.0 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.8 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.3 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.9 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 1: 7.3 mi
- Jacob Riis Park Beach 2: 7.3 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 5.2 mi
- Laurel Hill: 6.0 mi
- Willink Hill: 6.6 mi
- Breeze Hill: 6.7 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 6.8 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Area D: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Area C: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Area F: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Area G: 5.6 mi
- Palisades: 11.7 mi
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.4 mi
- Palisades: 12.4 mi
- Palisades: 16.2 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 10.7 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 14.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.3 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.8 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.8 mi
- Binnen Falls: 6.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 6.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 7.0 mi
- The Loch: 10.7 mi
- The Falls: 15.1 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 14.6 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 21.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 23.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 23.6 mi
- Barber: 24.0 mi
- Tulip Springs: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Centreville Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 295° | 179 m | 23.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 287° | 175 m | 24.6 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 252° | 125 m | 15.2 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 65° | 122 m | 23.9 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 50° | 106 m | 13.7 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 65° | 106 m | 23.6 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 348° | 85 m | 16.1 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 66° | 85 m | 21.9 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 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:48 | 16:32 |
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 | 33 | 35 | 41 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 5 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly72 obs
- House Sparrow59 obs
- Rock Pigeon58 obs
- common mugwort49 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel45 obs
- Mourning Dove34 obs
- European Starling34 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee29 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 way/578146016
Day trips start here
- Queens/Forest Park · 2 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 5 mi
- Queens · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 6 mi
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