Grassmere Playground
Grassmere Playground is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 5 m. Todt Hill stands 125 m to the west, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Rockaway Boardwalk, a park 0.5 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 17 miles off. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 5 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
How to reach it
- 16.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Rockaway Boardwalk: 0.5 mi
- Michaelis-Bayswater Park: 0.5 mi
- Beach 17th Street Park: 0.6 mi
- O'Donohue Park: 0.6 mi
- Westbourne Playground: 0.7 mi
- Norton Basin Natural Resource Area: 0.6 mi
- Seagirt Avenue Wetlands: 1.0 mi
- Rockaway Beach - Arverne Shorebird Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Lawrence Nature Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Arverne East Nature Preserve: 1.4 mi
- Sun and Surf Beach Club: 1.0 mi
- Atlantic Beach: 1.8 mi
- Rockaway Beach: 2.2 mi
- Hicks Beach: 3.1 mi
- East Atlantic Beach: 3.1 mi
- Rock Hall: 1.5 mi
- Long Beach Historical Museum: 4.7 mi
- Curly's Cowboy Center: 5.2 mi
- Grist Mill Museum: 6.0 mi
- Historic Aircraft Restoration Project - Hangar B: 6.5 mi
- LCFD Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Town of Hempsted Sanitary District No. 1 9-11 Memorial: 2.2 mi
- TWA Hotel Tickerboard: 3.4 mi
- HBFD Memorial: 3.9 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 4.0 mi
- Voice of Tomorrow: 3.3 mi
- History of Time: 3.3 mi
- The Young Rembrandt: 3.3 mi
- Mastodon: 5.4 mi
- Frog: 5.5 mi
- JFK: 4.0 mi
- Forest Park Carousel: 8.7 mi
- Wyckoff House Museum: 9.0 mi
- Nautical Mile: 9.6 mi
- US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Point: 9.6 mi
- The Garden of Resilience: 4.5 mi
- Mother Carter Garden: 5.6 mi
- 142nd Place & St. Block Association: 5.7 mi
- Phoenix Gate Community Garden: 5.9 mi
- Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Community Garden: 6.0 mi
- Queens High Point: 11.1 mi
- Willink Hill: 11.6 mi
- Breeze Hill: 11.6 mi
- Maspeth Plateau: 11.7 mi
- Lookout Hill: 11.9 mi
- Picnic Area B: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Area A: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Area G: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Area F: 3.3 mi
- Picnic Area C: 3.5 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 15.9 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 15.9 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 16.7 mi
- North Tower: 18.4 mi
- Twin Lights State Historic Site: 18.4 mi
- Palisades: 17.9 mi
- Palisades: 18.1 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 18.7 mi
- Palisades: 18.9 mi
- Palisades: 22.3 mi
- Binnen Falls: 11.7 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 11.9 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 12.0 mi
- The Loch: 17.1 mi
- The Falls: 20.4 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 21.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Grassmere Playground. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Todt Hill | W 270° | 125 m | 18.7 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | NE 49° | 122 m | 23.0 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NNE 24° | 106 m | 15.2 mi |
| West Hills | NE 49° | 106 m | 22.7 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | NE 49° | 85 m | 20.9 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NNW 340° | 85 m | 22.0 mi |
| Manhattan High Point | NNW 332° | 81 m | 19.9 mi |
| Queens High Point | N 11° | 79.2 m | 11.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 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, 3 mi away.
- common reed214 obs
- common mugwort134 obs
- American Oystercatcher133 obs
- groundsel tree131 obs
- Laughing Gull128 obs
- northern seaside goldenrod84 obs
- Rock Pigeon48 obs
- Ring-billed Gull48 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1058011252
Day trips start here
- Queens/Jamaica · 8 mi
- Rockville Centre · 8 mi
- Queens/Forest Park · 9 mi
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 10 mi
- Hempstead · 10 mi
- Garden City · 11 mi
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