Park · New York
Crack Is Wack Playground
Crack Is Wack Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Crack Is Wack, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 3.4 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 3 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
Coordinates40.80429, -73.93193
- 3.4 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 3.8 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 20.9 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
Artworks
- Crack Is Wack: 0.0 mi
- Dream Machine Ⅱ: 0.4 mi
- Growth: 0.4 mi
- Lincoln Holding a Child: 0.5 mi
- Coral: 0.6 mi
Parks
- Harlem River Park: 0.2 mi
- Wagner Houses Pool: 0.2 mi
- Detective Omar Edwards Park: 0.2 mi
- Bankside: 0.2 mi
- Alice Kornegay Triangle: 0.2 mi
Historic sites
- Matthew Travis Palacios: 0.2 mi
- Gas Explosion Empty Lot: 0.7 mi
- Duke Ellington Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Harriet Tubman Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Farmers Gate: 1.2 mi
Gardens
- Life Spire Garden: 0.4 mi
- La Casita Community Garden: 0.4 mi
- Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Diamante Garden: 0.5 mi
- Harlem Rose Garden: 0.5 mi
Peaks
- Mount Morris: 0.6 mi
- Janes Hill: 1.2 mi
- Great Hill: 1.5 mi
- Summit Rock: 2.5 mi
- Vista Rock: 2.6 mi
Museums
- National Jazz Museum in Harlem: 0.7 mi
- The Studio Museum In Harlem: 0.9 mi
- The Africa Center: 1.1 mi
- Bronx Documentary Center: 1.2 mi
- Universal Hip Hop Museum: 1.3 mi
Attractions
- Taste Harlem Tour: 0.7 mi
- Abyssinian Baptist Church: 1.0 mi
- Huddlestone Arch: 1.4 mi
- Original brown stone houses: 1.5 mi
- La casa de los Tenenbaums: 1.5 mi
Beaches
- Hallet’s Cove: 2.4 mi
- Hazard Beach: 3.7 mi
- Dyckman Street Beach: 4.5 mi
- Spuyten Duyvil Beach: 5.0 mi
- Bloomer Beach: 5.4 mi
Nature reserves
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 3.4 mi
- Cabrini Woods Nature Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Pugsley Creek Park: 4.2 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 5.4 mi
- Hackensack Meadowlands Conservation and Wildlife Area: 5.7 mi
Picnic sites: 43
- Picnic Area on Marcus Garvey Pool Deck: 0.6 mi
- Street Seats: 3.8 mi
- The Backyard: 7.4 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 8.1 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 8.4 mi
Cliffs: 17
- Coogan's Bluff: 2.0 mi
- Palisades: 3.1 mi
- Palisades: 5.2 mi
- Palisades: 6.0 mi
- Palisades: 7.2 mi
Waterfalls: 11
- The Loch: 1.6 mi
- The Falls: 7.5 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 9.9 mi
- Binnen Falls: 10.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 10.1 mi
Lighthouses: 8
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 7.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 11.4 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.4 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 23.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 24.0 mi
Rest areas: 4
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 5.3 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 13.1 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 24.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 24.3 mi
Springs: 1
- Tulip Springs: 19.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.7 miles of Crack Is Wack Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 310° | 268 m | 18.0 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 309° | 260 m | 19.2 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 309° | 230 m | 17.9 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 1° | 208 m | 16.9 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 308° | 185 m | 19.6 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 308° | 180 m | 19.3 mi |
| Stony Hill | W 272° | 179 m | 16.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | W 264° | 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, 3 mi away.
- white snakeroot2,418 obs
- common milkweed1,852 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel1,619 obs
- Porcelain Berry1,541 obs
- American Robin1,498 obs
- common mugwort1,362 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly1,185 obs
- Monarch1,156 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 siteOpenStreetMap element way/118524697
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- Manhattan/Harlem and Upper Manhattan · 1 mi
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- Bronx · 3 mi
- Manhattan · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper East Side · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Upper West Side · 3 mi
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