Fermi Playground
Fermi Playground is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 19 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is El Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.0 miles off. 56 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 9.0 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 10.7 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 26.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- El Garden: 0.1 mi
- Know Waste Lands Community Garden: 0.2 mi
- La Finca Garden: 0.3 mi
- John the Baptist Community Center Inc.: 0.5 mi
- Miraflores Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Leah E. Sylvain: 0.2 mi
- Bushwick-Ridgewood War Memorial: 0.6 mi
- Cooper Park: 1.2 mi
- Ridgewood War Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Saratoga Park Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Green Central Knoll: 0.3 mi
- Freedom Triangle: 0.3 mi
- Maria Hernandez Park: 0.3 mi
- Beaver Noll Park: 0.4 mi
- Beattie Triangle: 0.4 mi
- The Bone Museum: 0.6 mi
- Greater Ridgewood Historical Society: 0.8 mi
- Museum of Food and Drink: 1.7 mi
- The City Reliquary: 1.7 mi
- Weeksville Heritage Center: 1.8 mi
- MV Schamonchi: 0.8 mi
- The Geographic Center of NYC: 3.1 mi
- Sea Lion Pool: 3.1 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 3.1 mi
- Hall of Animals: 3.1 mi
- Shai Asia Semple: 1.0 mi
- Tiger: 1.2 mi
- Brooklyn: 1.3 mi
- Robert Fulton: 1.5 mi
- Virgin Mary: 1.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 2.7 mi
- Bird Island: 3.7 mi
- Hallett Nature Sanctuary: 5.2 mi
- Spring Creek Park: 5.2 mi
- Rookery: 6.2 mi
- Pebble Beach: 3.3 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 3.7 mi
- Hallet’s Cove: 4.8 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 5.0 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.1 mi
- Laurel Hill: 2.0 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 2.6 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 3.3 mi
- Willink Hill: 3.3 mi
- Breeze Hill: 3.5 mi
- Street Seats: 3.6 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 3.7 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 3.8 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 3.8 mi
- Freedom Field: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 6.7 mi
- Palisades: 6.8 mi
- Palisades: 8.2 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 9.2 mi
- Palisades: 13.2 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 3.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 3.3 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 3.5 mi
- The Loch: 6.7 mi
- The Falls: 13.8 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 15.4 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 15.8 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 17.0 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 17.0 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 10.1 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.3 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 20.2 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 20.2 mi
- Barber: 20.9 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 24.1 mi
- Tulip Springs: 19.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fermi Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NW 323° | 268 m | 23.4 mi |
| Beech Mountain | NW 322° | 260 m | 24.5 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NW 322° | 230 m | 23.1 mi |
| Mount Nebo | N 0° | 208 m | 24.1 mi |
| Poacher Peak | NW 321° | 185 m | 24.8 mi |
| Moon Hill | NW 321° | 180 m | 24.5 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 295° | 179 m | 18.2 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 285° | 175 m | 19.5 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, 6 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly543 obs
- tree-of-heaven458 obs
- Common Eastern Bumble Bee392 obs
- common mugwort354 obs
- Rock Pigeon324 obs
- Brown-belted Bumble Bee262 obs
- princess tree252 obs
- House Sparrow219 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/1044613965
Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 1 mi
- Queens · 1 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 3 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 3 mi
- Downstate New York · 4 mi
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