Doctor Charles R Drew Memorial Park
Doctor Charles R Drew Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 10 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Foch Sitting Area, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 10 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 10.5 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 25.5 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Foch Sitting Area: 0.2 mi
- Frederick B. Judge Playground: 0.3 mi
- Playground One-Forty: 0.4 mi
- Sergeant Colyer Square: 0.4 mi
- Norelli-Hargreaves Playground: 0.7 mi
- William "Dollar" Beamon: 0.2 mi
- Mastodon: 0.9 mi
- Frog: 1.0 mi
- Frog: 1.0 mi
- Frog: 1.0 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 0.4 mi
- Better Community Civic Association Mini Park & Garden: 0.6 mi
- Dunton Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Back To Eden Community Garden: 0.7 mi
- Paradise Community Garden NY: 0.7 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 1.2 mi
- King Manor Museum: 1.6 mi
- Brooklyn Seltzer Museum: 3.5 mi
- Godwin-Ternbach Museum: 3.9 mi
- Queens Museum: 5.1 mi
- Prospect Cemetery: 1.5 mi
- Morris Park World War Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Richmond Hill Branch: 2.1 mi
- Spanish American War: 2.1 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Monument: 2.3 mi
- JFK: 2.1 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 3.1 mi
- Welcome Center: 3.8 mi
- Westinghouse Time Capsules: 4.8 mi
- Wetland & Woodland Garden: 5.0 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 3.2 mi
- Hook Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.9 mi
- Inwood Bay State Tidal Wetland: 4.8 mi
- Broad Channel Wetlands: 4.8 mi
- Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 5.7 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 6.6 mi
- Parsons Beach: 6.8 mi
- Sun and Surf Beach Club: 7.1 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 7.6 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 6.1 mi
- Queens High Point: 6.9 mi
- Laurel Hill: 7.1 mi
- Willink Hill: 8.5 mi
- Breeze Hill: 8.7 mi
- Picnic Area D: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Area C: 4.1 mi
- Picnic Area F: 4.2 mi
- Picnic Area G: 4.3 mi
- Picnic Area B: 4.3 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Palisades: 13.0 mi
- Palisades: 13.2 mi
- Palisades: 13.3 mi
- Palisades: 16.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 12.3 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 13.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 14.1 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 18.4 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 18.4 mi
- Binnen Falls: 8.6 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 8.8 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 8.9 mi
- The Loch: 11.4 mi
- The Falls: 14.5 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 15.5 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Doctor Charles R Drew Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | WNW 292° | 179 m | 24.8 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 251° | 125 m | 17.3 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | ENE 65° | 122 m | 21.9 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NE 46° | 106 m | 11.9 mi |
| West Hills | ENE 64° | 106 m | 21.6 mi |
| Signal Hill | ENE 67° | 90 m | 24.6 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 341° | 85 m | 15.9 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 66° | 85 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 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, 4 mi away.
- Rock Pigeon143 obs
- Eastern Gray Squirrel52 obs
- House Sparrow49 obs
- Spotted Lanternfly41 obs
- common mugwort40 obs
- Mourning Dove35 obs
- Canada Goose34 obs
- Redhead32 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/445818969
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jamaica · 2 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 3 mi
- Queens · 6 mi
- Queens/Flushing-Northeast · 6 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 7 mi
- Queens/Jackson Heights · 7 mi
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