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Grady Playground

Grady Playground from directly overhead

Grady Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 3 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Banner Avenue Triangle, a park 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 50 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
3 m

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates40.58244, -73.96463

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
Attractions
Beaches
  • Coney Island Beach: 1.1 mi
  • Manhattan Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Kingsborough Beach Park: 1.6 mi
  • Gerritsen Beach: 2.2 mi
  • Fort Tilden Beach: 4.1 mi
Nature reserves
Peaks: 50
Picnic sites: 34
Cliffs: 12
Lighthouses: 9
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 5.5 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 5.7 mi
  • The Loch: 14.7 mi
  • Hemlock Falls: 20.6 mi
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 20.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillNW 317°179 m21.6 mi
Mayapple HillNW 308°175 m21.5 mi
Riker HillNW 310°134 m24.6 mi
Todt HillW 279°125 m8.0 mi
Crawford HillSW 222°120 m17.6 mi
Telegraph HillSW 220°106 m17.0 mi
Harbor HillNE 49°106 m22.7 mi
Nook HillWNW 301°92 m20.9 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 solstice07:1715:4916:33

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343643536272787670584839
Precip in3.53.04.43.84.04.44.83.93.94.03.24.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 1 mi away.

  • Laughing Gull354 obs
  • American Herring Gull321 obs
  • Ring-billed Gull305 obs
  • Rock Pigeon261 obs
  • Atlantic Horseshoe Crab203 obs
  • European Starling198 obs
  • Brant174 obs
  • Great Black-backed Gull160 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/585845826

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