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Curtis Playground

Curtis Playground from directly overhead

Curtis Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Wyckoff House Museum, a attraction 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 13 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.64098, -73.91753

Named places within 25 miles

Attractions
Gardens
Historic sites
Beaches
  • Canarsie Beach: 1.8 mi
  • Gerritsen Beach: 3.8 mi
  • Kingsborough Beach Park: 4.6 mi
  • Manhattan Beach: 4.7 mi
  • Jacob Riis Park Beach 7: 5.7 mi
Artworks
Nature reserves
Peaks: 46
Picnic sites: 37
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 9.7 mi
  • Palisades: 10.4 mi
  • Palisades: 12.2 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 13.3 mi
  • Palisades: 17.4 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.1 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.2 mi
  • The Loch: 10.9 mi
  • The Falls: 17.6 mi
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 21.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillNW 305°179 m20.8 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 295°175 m21.5 mi
Riker HillWNW 299°134 m24.4 mi
Todt HillWSW 255°125 m10.7 mi
Crawford HillSW 219°120 m22.2 mi
Harbor HillNE 53°106 m18.2 mi
Telegraph HillSW 218°106 m21.7 mi
Nook HillWNW 288°92 m21.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2619:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4916:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.

  • Spotted Lanternfly127 obs
  • common mugwort118 obs
  • Rock Pigeon104 obs
  • European Starling88 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel68 obs
  • House Sparrow58 obs
  • Mourning Dove45 obs
  • tree-of-heaven42 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 site

OpenStreetMap element way/185190925

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