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Green Central Knoll

Green Central Knoll from directly overhead

Green Central Knoll is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is El Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.0 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
12 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.70218, -73.93328

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Museums
Historic sites
Attractions
Artworks
  • Shai Asia Semple: 1.0 mi
  • Brooklyn: 1.1 mi
  • Tiger: 1.1 mi
  • Virgin Mary: 1.3 mi
  • Prayer: 1.4 mi
Nature reserves
Beaches
  • Pebble Beach: 3.0 mi
  • Pier 4 Beach: 3.5 mi
  • Hallet’s Cove: 4.7 mi
  • Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 4.7 mi
  • Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 4.8 mi
Peaks: 57
  • Laurel Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Maspeth Plateau: 2.7 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Willink Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 3.4 mi
Picnic sites: 42
Cliffs: 14
  • Palisades: 6.4 mi
  • Palisades: 6.6 mi
  • Palisades: 8.0 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 9.0 mi
  • Palisades: 13.1 mi
Waterfalls: 11
  • Ambergill Falls: 3.2 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 3.3 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 3.4 mi
  • The Loch: 6.5 mi
  • The Falls: 13.8 mi
Lighthouses: 9
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 19.1 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
High MountainNW 323°268 m23.1 mi
Beech MountainNW 322°260 m24.2 mi
Mount CecchinoNW 323°230 m22.9 mi
Mount NeboN 1°208 m24.0 mi
Poacher PeakNW 321°185 m24.6 mi
Moon HillNW 321°180 m24.3 mi
Stony HillWNW 295°179 m17.9 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 285°175 m19.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3219:08
June solstice05:2519:5020:31
September equinox06:4418:1918:55
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

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.

  • Spotted Lanternfly701 obs
  • tree-of-heaven532 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee458 obs
  • Rock Pigeon424 obs
  • common mugwort400 obs
  • House Sparrow313 obs
  • princess tree303 obs
  • Mourning Dove289 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/112168184

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