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Fruit Street Sitting Area

Fruit Street Sitting Area from directly overhead

Fruit Street Sitting Area is a park in New York, at a modelled elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Squibb Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 11 miles off. 58 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

Coordinates40.70011, -73.99579

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Squibb Park: 0.1 mi
  • Harry Chapin Playground: 0.1 mi
  • Hillside Dog Park: 0.1 mi
  • Pier 1: 0.1 mi
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park: 0.1 mi
Attractions
Historic sites
Artworks
Gardens
  • Max Family Garden: 0.3 mi
  • Carousel Bioswale: 0.3 mi
  • Juneteenth Grove: 0.4 mi
  • Willowtown Community Garden: 0.5 mi
  • Exploratory Marsh: 0.6 mi
Beaches
Peaks: 58
  • Grassy Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Slide Hill: 1.7 mi
  • Outlook Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Discovery Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 2.8 mi
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 3.9 mi
  • Palisades: 5.0 mi
  • Palisades: 7.5 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.6 mi
  • Palisades: 13.5 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 2.8 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 2.9 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.1 mi
  • The Loch: 6.8 mi
  • The Falls: 15.3 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 15.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNNW 331°268 m21.5 mi
Beech MountainNNW 329°260 m22.5 mi
Mount CecchinoNNW 330°230 m21.2 mi
Mount NeboN 8°208 m24.4 mi
Poacher PeakNNW 328°185 m22.8 mi
Moon HillNNW 328°180 m22.5 mi
Stony HillWNW 301°179 m15.1 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 288°175 m16.1 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 °F343643546372787669584839
Precip in3.63.24.34.14.04.54.64.64.34.43.64.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY City Cntrl Park, 6 mi away.

  • Rock Pigeon1,912 obs
  • Monarch1,551 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly1,445 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee1,249 obs
  • House Sparrow1,248 obs
  • Western Honey Bee1,224 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel1,215 obs
  • European Starling898 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/1256935439

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