Cypress Hills Playground
Cypress Hills Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Euclid Pine Block Association, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 48 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
How to reach it
- 10.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 13.5 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 27.3 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Euclid Pine Block Association: 0.1 mi
- Euclid Garden: 0.2 mi
- Manley's Place: 0.4 mi
- Crystal/Wells Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Public School 4k Paradise Garden: 0.8 mi
- Robert E Venable Park: 0.4 mi
- Woodruff Playground: 0.4 mi
- Pink Playground: 0.5 mi
- Linwood Playground: 0.5 mi
- Elton Playground: 0.6 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 0.5 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 2.8 mi
- Jewish Childrens Museum: 3.7 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 3.8 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 3.8 mi
- Dawn of Glory: 1.2 mi
- Woodhaven Library: 1.7 mi
- Betty Smith 1943: 1.8 mi
- Edward R Miller Square: 2.4 mi
- Zion Park War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 1.6 mi
- Rookery: 3.5 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 4.8 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 4.9 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 5.1 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 2.2 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 3.1 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 4.3 mi
- JFK: 4.6 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 4.9 mi
- Dolphin: 2.3 mi
- The City Don't Sleep: 2.9 mi
- Robert Fulton: 3.3 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 3.5 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 3.6 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 3.0 mi
- Gerritsen Beach: 6.4 mi
- Pebble Beach: 6.7 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.9 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 6.9 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 4.4 mi
- Willink Hill: 4.9 mi
- Laurel Hill: 4.9 mi
- Breeze Hill: 5.0 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 5.1 mi
- Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 4.5 mi
- Street Seats: 6.8 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 6.9 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 6.9 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 7.0 mi
- Palisades: 10.3 mi
- Palisades: 10.4 mi
- Palisades: 11.4 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Palisades: 15.7 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 9.2 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 16.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 16.0 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 16.0 mi
- Binnen Falls: 5.0 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 5.1 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 5.3 mi
- The Loch: 9.8 mi
- The Falls: 15.2 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 19.9 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 22.0 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 22.0 mi
- Barber: 22.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 22.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cypress Hills Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 297° | 179 m | 21.8 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 288° | 175 m | 22.9 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 249° | 125 m | 13.6 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 54° | 106 m | 15.1 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SW 220° | 106 m | 24.8 mi |
| Nook Hill | WNW 281° | 92 m | 23.3 mi |
| Bronx High Point | N 354° | 85 m | 15.8 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 68° | 85 m | 23.4 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 | 19:49 | 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, 6 mi away.
- common mugwort105 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly102 obs
- princess tree97 obs
- Porcelain Berry83 obs
- Asian bittersweet71 obs
- sassafras69 obs
- Rock Pigeon68 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel66 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/253901304
Day trips start here
- Queens · 3 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 4 mi
- Queens/Jamaica · 4 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 6 mi
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