Dome Playground
Dome Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 15 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Living Torah Museum, a museum 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 14 miles off. 49 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 15 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 14.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 14.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Living Torah Museum: 0.2 mi
- Erasmus Hall Museum: 1.4 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 1.6 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 2.0 mi
- Old Stone House: 2.4 mi
- DiGilio Playground: 0.4 mi
- Albemarle Playground: 0.5 mi
- Colonel Donald Cook Square: 0.6 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 0.7 mi
- Lieutenant Federico Narvaez Tot Lot: 0.8 mi
- Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine: 0.6 mi
- James B. Warden: 1.0 mi
- Pope John Paul II: 1.0 mi
- FDR Memorial: 1.2 mi
- K.S.: 1.3 mi
- East Fourth Street Garden: 0.7 mi
- Prospect Farm: 1.1 mi
- Q Gardens: 1.2 mi
- Caton Migration Garden: 1.3 mi
- Umma Park: 1.4 mi
- Now & Then: 0.9 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 0.9 mi
- Bees for Sunset Park: 0.9 mi
- Brooklyn Bucolic: 1.1 mi
- Civic Virtue Triumphant Over Unrighteousness: 1.3 mi
- Hammerhead Peninsula: 1.2 mi
- Drummer's Grove: 1.5 mi
- Camperdown Elm: 1.7 mi
- Winter Flea + Smorgasburg: 1.9 mi
- Carousel: 1.9 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 3.4 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 4.2 mi
- Coney Island Beach: 4.5 mi
- Matthew J. Buono Beach: 4.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 4.6 mi
- Bird Island: 4.2 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 4.7 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 5.0 mi
- Eibs Pond Park: 5.6 mi
- Rookery: 5.7 mi
- Battle Hill: 1.4 mi
- Lookout Hill: 1.4 mi
- Breeze Hill: 1.6 mi
- Quaker Hill: 1.6 mi
- Willink Hill: 1.8 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 4.0 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 4.0 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 4.2 mi
- Freedom Field: 5.8 mi
- Street Seats: 7.9 mi
- Palisades: 8.0 mi
- Palisades: 9.3 mi
- Palisades: 11.8 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 13.6 mi
- Palisades: 17.6 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 1.7 mi
- Binnen Falls: 1.8 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 1.9 mi
- The Loch: 10.9 mi
- Hemlock Falls: 17.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 6.6 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 12.2 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 12.3 mi
- North Tower: 16.7 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 16.7 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 13.1 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 15.9 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 15.9 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 17.4 mi
- Barber: 16.4 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 21.5 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Dome Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Hill | NW 311° | 179 m | 18.3 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 300° | 175 m | 18.6 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 326° | 144 m | 24.4 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 303° | 134 m | 21.7 mi |
| Long Hill | W 280° | 126 m | 24.4 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 250° | 125 m | 7.5 mi |
| Crawford Hill | SSW 213° | 120 m | 20.2 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSW 211° | 106 m | 19.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:33 |
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 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 3 mi away.
- Red-tailed Hawk1,419 obs
- Pond Slider1,356 obs
- American Robin1,184 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,124 obs
- Mallard1,056 obs
- American Kestrel1,027 obs
- Canada Goose993 obs
- Wood Duck950 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/478719917
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 4 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Financial District · 5 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 5 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 6 mi
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