Park · New York
Cooper Park
Cooper Park is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. Bronx River Parkway passes 8.2 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.71568, -73.93654
- 8.2 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 9.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Historic sites
- Cooper Park: 0.1 mi
- Bushwick War Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Society of St. Mary of the Snow: 0.5 mi
- Tadeusz Kosciusko: 0.6 mi
- Teddy Orzechowski: 0.6 mi
Gardens
- Red Shed Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Olive Street Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- Orient Grove: 0.2 mi
- Green Area: 0.2 mi
- Powers Street Garden: 0.3 mi
Parks
- Frost Playground: 0.3 mi
- Ten Eyck Playground: 0.5 mi
- Fidelity Memorial Park: 0.5 mi
- Sgt. William Dougherty Playground: 0.6 mi
- Lentol Garden: 0.6 mi
Attractions
- MV Schamonchi: 0.4 mi
- Historical landmark from 1877: 2.2 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 2.4 mi
- Pepsi-Cola Sign: 2.5 mi
- Zohramp: 2.6 mi
Artworks
- 9/11: 0.7 mi
- The Monitor and the Merrimac: 0.7 mi
- Virgin Mary: 0.8 mi
- Prayer: 0.8 mi
- Deluge of Movement: 1.0 mi
Museums
- The Bone Museum: 0.7 mi
- Museum of Food and Drink: 0.7 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 0.9 mi
- The City Reliquary: 1.0 mi
- Underpenny Museum Antique & Collectables: 2.1 mi
Nature reserves
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 1.6 mi
- Bird Island: 3.5 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 4.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 6.2 mi
- Rookery: 7.4 mi
Beaches
- Pebble Beach: 2.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 3.5 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 3.7 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.2 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 5.0 mi
Peaks: 57
- Laurel Hill: 1.2 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.3 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.9 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.0 mi
- Quaker Hill: 4.2 mi
Picnic sites: 44
- Street Seats: 2.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 3.5 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.6 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.6 mi
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 6.2 mi
Cliffs: 14
- Palisades: 5.8 mi
- Palisades: 5.9 mi
- Palisades: 7.0 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 8.1 mi
- Palisades: 12.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
- Ambergill Falls: 3.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 4.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 4.2 mi
- The Loch: 5.6 mi
- The Falls: 13.0 mi
Lighthouses: 9
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.0 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.3 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 8.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 15.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.3 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
- Barber: 21.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 23.7 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 18.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cooper Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 322° | 268 m | 22.3 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 321° | 260 m | 23.4 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 322° | 230 m | 22.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 1° | 208 m | 23.0 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 320° | 185 m | 23.8 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 320° | 180 m | 23.4 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 293° | 179 m | 17.4 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 282° | 175 m | 18.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| 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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.2 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 5 mi away.
- tree-of-heaven961 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly851 obs
- common mugwort509 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee405 obs
- Rock Pigeon384 obs
- House Sparrow332 obs
- princess tree285 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod269 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/617699515
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